Alex Lu 2012/10/24 ENG2100+2150 Professor Lombardi Wearing a Mask‚ Making a Contrast “Under the Red‚ White‚ and Blue then wear the gold hat‚ if that will move her; If you can bounce high‚ bounce for her too‚ Till she cry ‘Lover‚ gold-hatted‚ high-bouncing lover‚ I must have you!’” This beautiful and connotative quote appears at the beginning of the novel‚ The Great Gatsby. Gatsby wearing his gold hat‚ a kind of masks represent wealthy and upper class‚ dream one day he could have Daisy again
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Masks A mask is a covering worn on the face or something that disguises or conceals oneself. All the characters in Shakespeare’s Hamlet hide behind masks to cover up who they really are‚ which contridictes a main idea‚ expressed by the fool‚ Old Polonius‚ "To thine ownself be true" (Polonius - 1.3.84). All the characters share strengths and triumphs‚ flaws and downfalls. Instead of revealing their vulnerabilities‚ each of them wears a mask that conceals who they are and there true convictions
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“The King of Masks”‚ directed by Wu Tianming‚ is a sentimental melodrama with many underlying themes‚ one of which is the theme of love. The plot of the film‚ the morals that it teaches‚ and its impact on the audience all revolve around love. "The King of Masks" centers around the old street performer‚ Wang‚ played by Zhu Xu‚ who is desperately in search of a male successor to inherit his secret art of "face-changing". Fate allows him to meet with Doggie‚ a young child whose role is heartwarmingly
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Mask 1 Lillie Coleman English 310 - Writing Principle October 4‚ 2010 We Wear the Mask We Wear the Mask a poem written by Paul Laurence Dunbar. I believe that Dunbar’s poem speaks out on the harsh realities of the mistreatment and injustice of blacks. It depicts the struggles of survival for black people living in white America. It also describes how blacks were forced to repress their true feelings of grief‚ sadness and pain. I believe the poem speaks out during a time in history
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Dunbar’s We Wear the Mask addresses the faults of humanity and the intersectional themes of race‚ society and class within the poem. The “mask” within this piece is symbolic of the ways in which society structures and organizes individuals to conform to societal standards. To support this theory - Dunbar uses the American Dream and slavery to remind his readers “we” wore the mask back then and “we” still wear the mask to this day. The immediate action of wearing a mask signifies suppression of
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Free French in the Second World War. He remained in France after the war to study medicine and psychiatry on scholarship in Lyon‚ whereby he began writing political essays and plays. During his stay in France‚ he published his first analysis of the effects of racism and colonization‚ Black Skin‚ White Masks (1952). In Black Sin‚ White Masks‚ Frantz Fanon analyses the impact of colonialism and its deforming effects‚ had a major influence on civil rights‚ anti-colonial and black consciousness movements
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buried” by Amy Hempel uses the word masks throughout the story to convey guilt‚ fear and unacceptance of death. The first mention of the word mask is in the beginning of the story. We are just beginning to understand that Hempel is describing two people in a hospital‚ the narrator is visiting her friend who is sick. They are both wearing masks‚ the narrator checks to make sure that she is still breathing and that she is not “ used to the mask yet.” The friend has her mask hanging loose‚ a “pro by now.”
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In today’s class‚ we first talked about the final project that is with the mask we made last week. I had no idea what to do with the mask‚ but I guess I got some idea. Trina showed us the pictures of the masks her former students made. In the pictures‚ there was a student who became a male at the end of a semester‚ and Trina talked about how the situation for bisexual people was in the past. It was heartbreaking. I have some friends who are bisexual‚ and the story made me think about them. I think
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The Chinese film‚ The King of Masks (Tianming‚ 1996)‚ is representative of the type of film that embodies the traditional ideals of China. The story takes place in the 1930s‚ during which girls in China were not highly valued or respected. Evidence of gender discrimination can be seen throughout the film‚ particularly when families give daughters away for free while sons are valued much higher. The preference for sons over daughters is deeply intertwined with Chinese society as even early Confucian
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Shakespeare’s clever uses of psychological masks. Several characters in the play take on roles that do not agree with their personalities. The psychological masks that they wear are not immediately apparent to the audience‚ or even to the characters themselves‚ until they are unmasked through the course of the play. Shakespeare mostly uses this device with the characters of Katherina‚ Bianca‚ and Petruchio. Each of them has adapted to their circumstances by wearing the mask of a different personality‚ and
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