1 My Different Masks When I was a student in high school I had a few friends that would gossip and spread rumors every day during lunch about certain kids at school. They would share the details about the scandal at the table and they would criticize them without pity. In other school settings‚ the critics would speak kindly to those they judged with an air of grace and elegance. Since I had witnessed their changing faces‚ I wondered if they had ever behaved the same way towards me. Although
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PERFORMING ARTS AND CULTURE (HOW MASKS ARE USED FOR DRAMA AND DANCE IN INDIA AND ALL OVER THE WORLD) A mask is an artifact normally worn on the face‚ typically for protection‚ concealment‚ performance‚ or amusement. Throughout the world masks are used for their expressive power as a feature of masked performance - both ritually and in various theatre traditions. The mask is normally a part of a costume that adorns the whole body. Masks are used almost universally and maintain their power and
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The poem “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar has the message of suppressing one’s emotions in order to appeal to others who appear to be superior. This is shown in the line “This debt we pay to human guile” because the speaker believes that the wearers of the mask do so either in shame or to protect themselves from those who have achieved so much more than themselves. The mask conceals their “tears and sighs” because they do not want them to be seen. But the mask could also hide their sense
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We Wear The Mask My reaction to the poem “ We Wear the Mask” is a feeling of truthfulness. It tells about what people see and what others hide. People that I have met don’t really act like themselves. Like when it says “We smile‚ but‚ O great Christ‚ our cries to thee from tortured souls arise” those are the people who have hid themselves from others. They are people we wouldn’t know that are at home cutting themselves are even attempt to do suicide that only the lord knows. They can talk like
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unidentifiable bodies dancing at different times in what appears to be the same room‚ their faces‚ bodies and clothing blurring and flickering as each figure moves to a silent rhythm‚ is the opening piece to the Fowler Museum’s Winter 2016 exhibit “Disguise: Masks and Global African Art.” Titled “Double Quadruple Etcetera Etcetera I and II‚” the video is the work of artist Sonra R. Perry‚ a Black woman‚ New Jersey native‚ and current Harlem resident. To the side of the video is a plaque displaying a quote from
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Wear the Mask‚ by Paul Laurence Dunbar‚ Dunbar explains that people around the world wear a mask to hide their true selves. Dunbar also talks about how people cover up their tears and sighs with the masks so that people think nothing is wrong with someone else. Dunbar shows that once someone wears a mask‚ they are a whole new person. The poem also expresses that people only let others see them when they were their mask‚ and they look perfect. “Nay‚ let them only see us‚ while we wear the mask.” There
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Athens‚ Patriarchal Societies‚ and Phaedra and Clytaemnestra Upon first examination‚ it would seem that the two female characters of Greek drama Phaedra and Clytaemnestra are far removed from one another. Phaedra is seemingly a love-struck character that embodies pathos and a pathetic nature while Clytaemnestra has a cold and calculative nature to her. However‚ both characters are at the whim of the patriarchal Athenian society which makes these two seemingly diverse characters closer in design
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When reading “Richard Cory” and “We Wear the Mask” we run into very similar themes‚ masks obviously. Themes sometimes overlap in stories any story from any time we can see that the themes define the story are the soul. The many short texts I’ve recently read have been set in America in the time after the civil war‚ with racism. Do we really hide who we are? The poem “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar has the theme that people wear metaphorical masks to hide our troubles or even to hide from
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“Close Relationships Sometimes Mask Poor Communication.” Litasha Worthen-Barnes Lindsay Hollead Interpersonal Communication Com 200 July 5‚ 2013 In reading the article “Close Relationships Sometimes Mask Poor Communication” I was intrigued by the information that was given‚ the article touched on some important issues about relationships and how when you are communicating with your spouse‚ lover‚ or fiancé how we automatically assume
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Lies‚ Death & Beauty In Emily Dickinson?s ?I died for beauty but was scarce?‚ Edwin Arlington Robinson?s ?Richard Cory?‚ and Paul Dunbar?s ?We Wear the Mask? share common themes of lies‚ beauty‚ and death. All authors attain a different form and style of writing; however they all mutually share the idea that physical appearance masks the internal. That despite your astonishing looks you can still be suffering internally. Physical appearance is temporary for death is inevitable. Appearances
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