Constructed Response - Masque of the Red Death 1

Read the passage from "Masque of the Red Death" and then answer the prompt below.

“But Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious.  When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court, and with these retired to the deep seclusion of one of his crenelated abbeys.  This was an extensive and magnificent structure, the creation of the prince’s own eccentric yet august taste.  A strong and lofty wall girdled it in.  This wall had iron gates of iron.  The courtiers, having entered, brought furnaces and massy hammers and welded the bolts.”

Based on the adjectives that you found in the quote above regarding Prospero, the kinds of people whom he surrounded himself, and the kind of architecture/luxury that he preferred, what can you conclude about his personality and his character?