In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death," the masked visitor symbolizes the inevitability of death, illustrating that no one can escape mortality. The revelers, in their opulent surroundings, believe they can avoid the plague by isolating themselves, but the arrival of the masked figure serves as a stark reminder that death is inescapable. Ultimately, the guests' fate reveals the futility of their attempts to evade their reality, teaching a profound lesson about the universality of death and the illusion of safety.
If you read up on some of Poe's life you can answer this your self, but the masked visitor represent death and illness. Through out Poe's life most of the woman including his wife and mother all died of TB. This impacted Poe a great deal.
the disease called the red death
He was dressed in red death
cause he wants 2c kill the man
The masked figure is the Black Death, and his arrival at the party shows that no one, no matter how rich they were, could escape from the Bubonic Plague in the medieval ages.
No matter how hard you try, you can not evade death. It is imminent.
The colors in "The Masque of the Red Death" represent the seven stages of life. Blue, Purple, Green, Orange, White, Violet, and Black. These are the colors in order for which the stages of life go in.
Blue represents the birth of something or someone
How the red death kills the other people
The purple room represents a basic meaning of life........
Oh, dude, in "The Masque of the Red Death," the use of the word "masque" is ironic because while it refers to a fancy costume party in the story, it also alludes to the masked figure of the Red Death that ultimately brings death to the revelers. It's like calling a party "The Dance of the Grim Reaper" - not exactly a fun time for everyone involved. So, yeah, it's ironic in a dark and twisted kinda way.