Dubois And The Veil In Young Goodman Brown

Souls Of Black Folk

2- DuBois repeatedly makes reference to a veil that separates himself from the world when he is a child. DuBois’ childhood was in New England, which was a fairly liberal area due to its Northern location. He uses the idea of a veil as an allegory in which he can see through the veil, but it is dark when he looks through it. This is a very descriptive and powerful when used in this way, because not only is the world through his eyes darkened, but so is he when looked upon by others, in the socialistic aspect. DuBois was a shadow that the other kids played with, but could never really touch because of his characteristics of not really existing. What is interesting is that DuBois doesn’t mind this at all because he enjoys …show more content…
The darkness for the blacks is the constant onslaught of prejudice by the whites, and even themselves. The path for the blacks to travel on is very small and must accommodate a vast number of people, which is very difficult, which slows down the pace of the entire journey, with this path many believe that there are ways to possibly take shortcuts, or help from others who appear to be friends, yet will ultimately set back the progress …show more content…
It was most likely due to the prejudice and constant condescending acts of the whites that Jackson turned out the way he did, and the same with the Negroes of the time, they were raised to believe that they were inept compared to the whites, which was the cause of their degradation. What reason did Jackson Jackson have for trying to stay clean and working hard when he was raised to believe he was inferior and that his culture was wrong, therefor he should be treated as another obstacle that the American way of life must contain and control through a superiority