order for masks
LIT 203
(PHILIPPINE LITERATURE)
Submitted By:
Rosselle Joy D. Tapia
IT21FA1
Submitted to:
Dr. Nazario L. Cebreros
Order for Masks
By: Virginia R. Moreno
I. VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT
a. Harlequinade: a comedy or pantomime in which Harlequin is the main attraction. ; Farcical clowning or buffoonery; acting like a clown or buffoon.
b. Suave: smooth
c. Tantalizing: to excite (another) by exposing something desirable while keeping it out of reach.
d. Mangled: disfigured; having edges that are jagged from injury.
e. Billiken: the Billiken is a good-luck figure who represents "things as they ought to be”; Biliken - the god of things as they ought to be."
II. Identify who’s talking in the poem.
In the poem “Order for Masks”, Virginia R. Moreno, the author of the said poem is the one who’s talking in the poem.
III. SYPNOSIS/ SUMMARY
The poem, "Order for Masks", is clearly talking about the different roles that the woman, who is the persona in the poem, has to portray throughout her life. It presents the woman's three masks which represent the three tasks in her life and the three faces she has to wear for the three men in her life. The first role that is illustrated is that of a sister the woman towards her brother. As a sister, she tries to differentiate herself from her brother that is why she does things that are completely opposite or in contrast with the things her brother does. She wants to be unlike him in every possible way so to make him feel secure in his masculinity and to make him believe that she is not a threat to him. The next role mentioned is that of a daughter the woman towards her father. As a daughter, she wants to show her father that she is the kind of woman that he expects her to be pure, innocent and chaste, leading him to believe that she is the perfect or ideal daughter. Also, the woman is projecting to him that she is still the same child he knew and the same face he
(PHILIPPINE LITERATURE)
Submitted By:
Rosselle Joy D. Tapia
IT21FA1
Submitted to:
Dr. Nazario L. Cebreros
Order for Masks
By: Virginia R. Moreno
I. VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT
a. Harlequinade: a comedy or pantomime in which Harlequin is the main attraction. ; Farcical clowning or buffoonery; acting like a clown or buffoon.
b. Suave: smooth
c. Tantalizing: to excite (another) by exposing something desirable while keeping it out of reach.
d. Mangled: disfigured; having edges that are jagged from injury.
e. Billiken: the Billiken is a good-luck figure who represents "things as they ought to be”; Biliken - the god of things as they ought to be."
II. Identify who’s talking in the poem.
In the poem “Order for Masks”, Virginia R. Moreno, the author of the said poem is the one who’s talking in the poem.
III. SYPNOSIS/ SUMMARY
The poem, "Order for Masks", is clearly talking about the different roles that the woman, who is the persona in the poem, has to portray throughout her life. It presents the woman's three masks which represent the three tasks in her life and the three faces she has to wear for the three men in her life. The first role that is illustrated is that of a sister the woman towards her brother. As a sister, she tries to differentiate herself from her brother that is why she does things that are completely opposite or in contrast with the things her brother does. She wants to be unlike him in every possible way so to make him feel secure in his masculinity and to make him believe that she is not a threat to him. The next role mentioned is that of a daughter the woman towards her father. As a daughter, she wants to show her father that she is the kind of woman that he expects her to be pure, innocent and chaste, leading him to believe that she is the perfect or ideal daughter. Also, the woman is projecting to him that she is still the same child he knew and the same face he