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Masque of the Red Death (Historical (Class Warfare (Poor vs Rich) (Urban…

- - - - Using the characters to represent the rich and poor aspects of his time even though the plot takes place in the medieval ages
        
        (Economic)Class Warfare
        
        please the flood gates of the poor and their anger when the rich lock themselves in "safety"
        
        Poe himself had lived both walks of life as his family was well off however after leaving West Point to pursue a career in writing those ties were split leaving him to struggle through poverty.
        
        Urban areas suffered the most as the poor were cramped into tight living conditions
        
        unsteady economic growth led to increases in the frequency of unemployment, which had an impact on nutriti
        
        diseases in cities exploded.
      - Comparison of Medieval Ages to current issues. He uses this to drive the point his society is looking to a similar fate of suffering and separation.
        
        Casualties in both time periods were ussually the poor
        
        Potato famine in Ireland
      - Edgar Allan Poe and his tie to the Romantic Movement (Literary Movement)
        
        Dark Romanticism. This term comes from both the pessimistic nature of the subgenre's literature and the influence it derives from the earlier romantic literary movement. Dark Romanticism's birth however was a mid 19th century reaction to the American Transcendental movement.
        
        Dark Romantics adapted images of evil in the form of Satan, devils, ghosts, vampires, and ghouls