What are the two main purposes of Edgar Allan Poe s the masque of the red death

Answer: The two main purposes are listed below:

1. To show that power and wealth cannot always shelter people.

2. To criticize people that lack empathy for others.

Explanation:

The book titled "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe is a story that highlights the imminence of death.

It is also exemplifies the loss of empathy to the people who had gained wealth.

The story is about a prince that is named Prospero. He wanted to escape from the death and plague caused by the Red Death. He did not consider that the citizens were in pain and he tried his best to avoid their grievances. The story tells us about the imminence of death.

Poe lost three women, who were very important to him, to tuberculosis. His ability to create dark and horror filled texts, backed with his personal knowledge of the disease, could easily lead one to decide that Masque was an attempt to describe the horrible affects which tuberculous had upon its "host

Poe could have chosen to write the story simply based upon the fear people had about contracting the disease and the alienation and isolation which was found when people were found to have tuberculosis.