Denmark to work on a masque‚ The Masque of Blackness. Masques were private entertainments presented at the courts of James I and Charles I. These entertainments of spoken poetry‚ music‚ and dance were portrayed with England’s most lavish and extraordinary theatrical effects to date. Inigo Jones almost always created the costumes‚ sceneries‚ and effects for the court masques of England. When Anne of Denmark commissioned Jones for The Masque of Blackness‚ medieval scenic practices were still in use
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These legacies of the slave trade are prominent through the idea of race‚ as “Atlantic slavery came to be identified wholly with Africa and with blackness” (689) Racism was used in this time period to justify actions‚ as through racism‚ “Europeans were better able to tolerate their brutal exploitations of Africans” (690). This racial discrimination became a reoccurring theme that has lasted well into
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disturbing environment for the story. One example would be the nightmare like imagery used in the beginning. "..And then my vision fell upon the seven tall candles upon the table...and seemed white slender angels...their flames went out utterly; the blackness of darkness supervened; all sensations appeared swallowed up in a mad rushing descent as of the soul into Hades.." Typically in Gothic literature‚ there’s mystery‚the supernatural and dread in the atmosphere. With this quote‚ it follows this‚ since
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he says she will be nameless in his house for evermore. 3.He then stands and ask if he has a late night visitor at his chamber door. 4.He tells whoever is at his door that they are forgiven and that when he opened his chamber door nothing but blackness was there and nothing more. 5.He was having awful dreams that no one should ever dream of and that all he could her was a whisper that said “Lenore”. 6.He is telling himself that he is just tripping and that he doesn’t really hear anything and that
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Baldwin was trying to get across in his story "Notes of a Native son". Baldwin’s father always had hatred in his heart that o matter what he did he always‚ seemed angry and mean ‚ a hatred person. he would lie that he was proud of his blackness but he was mostly humiliated about it. he would try to do all the nice things for his children to try to be a good father‚ but at the end he would always look like an angry‚ hateful person. he would try to play with the his children and he would
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“Why Were Africans Enslaved” After reading both articles‚ I feel these two writers are arguing which side of the same coin is the‚ “right side”. Eric Williams argues that while the Irish European slaves‚ the native American Indian‚ and the Chinese laborer could be used in certain jobs a slave would have‚ that their bodies were unable to keep up with the needed labor of a cotton‚ tobacco‚ and sugar plantation. He states that it was the African slaves superior endurance‚ strength‚ and economic cost
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just what America needs right now. "Dear White People" not only illustrates exactly what plagues our country and it’s youth but forces a conversation about race that many are too afraid‚ ashamed‚ or ignorant to have. Depicting the complexities of blackness and all of its forms‚ dear white people embraces its’ colorful (pun intended) cast and delves into personalized storytelling through varying its directors. Additionally‚ as a young black woman soon to be entering college‚ the show spoke volumes
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In Edgar Allan Poe’s story‚ “The Pit and the Pendulum‚” Poe‚ uses the horror elements of isolation‚ fight or flight‚ and anxiety/distortion to add suspense to the story. In summation of the story it is set in the 1400’s in Spain and is following the pov of a man thrown into a dungeon to die. Over the whole part of the story the protagonist is faced with just being by himself also known as isolation. In the story it says all “...sensations appeared swallowed up in a mad rushing descent as of the
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Perception as a pramana or method of knowledge has not been discussed at length in Western logic. In so far as it has been discussed‚ it has created a divide amongst the realists‚ the idealists and the empiricists. Many schools of Indian philosophy have taken up a critical examination of perception as a means of gaining valid knowledge. The Nyaya is one of them. According to the Nyaya school of philosophy‚ valid knowledge or prama can be gained through four different means namely; perception (Pratyaksa)
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power of creativity‚ giving birth to all forms.” Walker presents Kali as the “fount of every kind of love” and her blackness is as symbolization of the “formlessness beyond the veil of death; a psychic return to the womb‚ to be united with Kali’s oceanic being” (23; 224‚ 225). This is exactly what Edwards presents through his website description of Kali. She is‚ as he describes‚ the blackness that what we all return to when meditating. How is she this one and only primordial being that‚ according to Edwards
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