I had such a great time decorating my mask in class this week! To be honest‚ I was a little terrified going into class that I wouldn’t be able to decorate my mask to my own expectations without spending a few hours on it‚ or that I would not be able to express the concept that I had created in my mind for my mask. As I worked on it‚ however‚ my worries faded away and I felt at ease because the activity in itself was so relaxing. After I gathered the paint‚ glitter‚ and feathers that I felt so
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In the poem‚ “We Wear the Mask’‚ the narrator‚ Paul Lawrence Dunbar‚ expresses the pain African American experienced during the slave trade and how the slaves learned to suppress their emotions. The poem shows a contrast between African American’s social faces and their “bleeding hearts”. The tone of the poem is not a corrective tone‚ but rather an explanatory one. In considering the time period‚ it would make sense that the narrator would be careful about insulting the white community. In the
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The poem‚ We Wear the Mask‚ was a beautiful poem. Many people can relate to having to hide their true feelings. I am one of those people. In lines 10 and 11‚ Dunbar says‚ “We smile‚ but‚ O great Christ‚ our cries to thee from tortured souls arise.” To me‚ this was these lines really hit home the most. I can relate to feeling like I have no one to go to with my true feelings‚ except for Christ. He is the only person I know that will always be there for me no matter what the circumstance and I know
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The film King of Masks deals with and challenges the feudal idea that men are superior to women; this ideology‚ as the film portrays‚ results in alienation‚ tragedy and bitterness for girls in Chinese society and particularly the protagonist Doggie. In contrast‚ out of darkness‚ corruption‚ and poverty‚ the goodness of humanity and the human love sprung up from the master-apprentice relationship between Wang and Doggie will ultimately reign over narrow and backward traditional notions. Evidence
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Masks have held countless uses and meanings throughout history. Masks have been used in plays‚ like those of Shakespeare‚ traditional dances‚ social gatherings‚ even as a form of casual or corporal punishment. Although masks have several different uses in different cultural situations‚ the meaning of the masks is generally the same. Masks are used to conceal an appearance and assume the identity of another. Metaphorically‚ masks can be used to hide feelings‚ to protect oneself‚ and to block out the
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Analyze Agamemnon’s Character from Homer’s Iliad and Aeschylus’s Agamemnon [pic] Agamemnon is the son of King Atreus of Mycenae and Queen Aerope‚ the brother of Menelaus and the husband of Clytemnestra. Agamemnon and Clytemnestra had four children: one son‚ Orestes‚ and three daughters‚ Iphigenia‚ Electra and Chrysothemis. He was the king of Mycenae. When Helen‚ the wife of Menelaus‚ was abducted by Paris of Troy‚ Agamemnon was the commander of the Greeks in the ensuing Trojan War. Upon Agamemnon’s
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In the film‚ “the mask I live in‚” published on January 25‚ 2015 by the representation project. The documentary looks at kids in high school in a rough area and adults who grew up with the pressure of becoming a man. This documentary looks at the stereotypes of what it takes to become a man and what you need to do in order to be classified as a man in todays standards. In this film the area they filmed was a hard area to live in which altered what the kids would say‚ the film also looked the bad
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Evaluating the Parallels between Black Skins‚ White Masks and The Souls of Black Folk The phenomenal books entitled Black Skins‚ White Masks‚ written by the notable Frantz Fanon and The Souls of Black Folk‚ by prominent author‚ historian‚ and activist William Edward Burghardt Du Bois‚ better known as W.E.B Du Bois‚ both express the trials and tribulations of Blacks in respect to their identity. Black Skins‚ White Masks‚ originally written in 1952‚ in French was translated into English by Richard
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cloaks‚ there was one tree‚ and they used a lot of sheets. One of the design elements that stood out the most the masks the background characters wore. Throughout the entire play‚ the cast who was not in scene at the time‚ used masks and made weird noises in the back to create the illusion of a post-apocalyptic atmosphere. I believe Heather Wright‚ properties master‚ created these masks in order to separate the characters acting out their scene from the background characters. I cannot pinpoint one
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society ’s stereotypes? Perhaps it is a tautological circle in which people usually wear the masks they are meant to wear and thus continue creating the same classifications over and over. One of the greatest modern writers‚ Angela Carter‚ deals often with stereotypes in her adaptations of classical fairy tales. Andrew Milne explains the power this practice has had in society‚ "rewriting of traditional European tales forces the reader to question himself and to think a great deal about the imaginary
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