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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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    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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    —sprinkle in a less than ideal home life and I felt like I was always acting. For me this poem expressed how the outside version‚ the person I allowed people to connect and know‚ differed so much from the feelings and the person I was inside. I wore a ‘mask‚ because being honest with how life and situations had been affecting me‚ wasn’t an option. Existing against the norm‚ failing to be happy and appropriately

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    Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem “We Wear the Mask” (1897) reflects how African Americans put on a “mask” in order for them to get through everyday life. The “mask” is the main symbol of this poem. The poem begins‚ “We wear the mask that grins and lies‚ it hides our checks and shades our eyes” (Dunbar‚ 1897‚ p. 1808). The “mask” hides their true feels‚ shows a fake smile‚ and hides their pain. Symbolism is used throughout Dunbar’s poems. “Sympathy” (1899) speaks of a “caged bird” (Dunbar‚ p. 1809).

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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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    In Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “We Wear the Mask‚” the theme is the key. This poem explains the difference in others concept of African Americans and how they really felt. “We Wear the Mask‚” compares a mask to how blacks from the 19th century hid their feelings. Dunbar explains the humiliation and stereotyping African Americans endured. Dunbar expressed theme in this poem through racism‚ lies‚ and suffering. Of the three‚ racism is substantially the most obvious display of theme in this story. Whites

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    Out From Behind This Mask By: Walt Whitman • Synopsis In Whitman’s poem Out From Behind This Mask‚ the poem starts out by talking about the passion and excitement that to many‚ lies just out of reach. Whitman is trying to illustrate how this ecstasy is much closer than once thought‚ by comparing the barrier as a curtain or a mask. The wonders that lie beyond this mask range from “passionate teeming plays” to “the glaze of God’s serenest‚ purest sky.” To Whitman‚ the possibilities are endless

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