Masquerade

You enter an art gallery and you come upon Cindy Sherman’s #10 untitled film still (fig. A.1.). In this photograph you see women squatting down on the floor; her skirt is pulled up. You are taken aback by the girl in this sexual position, and frankly, you are a bit uncomfortable. You then see the spilled groceries on the ground and place her in the place of a housewife, running around to cook dinner for her husband. The way that we view this photograph can be attributed back to the theory, of…

an uninvited guest arrives to reveal the fate of those attempting to cheat death. The setting of this story is inside Prince Prospero’s secluded castle. As everyone in the castle was feeling hopeless, Prospero decided to throw a masquerade ball where his guests could appreciate his elaborate suite. The mono-colored rooms have been interpreted as a metaphor for the stages of life, white room being birth, and the black room as death. Other sources claim that the rooms reveal the…

Harrison Bergeron is an amazing short story that gives its reader a glimpse of what the future could be like if the government attempted to make everyone equal. It is also unnerving because our society could eventually become like that. There is also a short film called 2081 that is also a good film. Harrison Bergeron and 2081 are similar but have a lot of differences and that is what I am going to talk about. Harrison Bergeron is a dystopian and satirical short story. It combines elements of…

review, then moved onto a lexical set of murder, with the concrete nouns “culprit” and “blood”, to establish the crime genre of the game and provide escapism. I used the proper noun “Mr White”, which is also a reference to ‘Cluedo’, the noun phrase “masquerade party” and the concrete noun “manor”; to establish the game’s context and storyline. I have used declaratives to inform about the game and evaluate it, such as “the controls are fairly simple” and using intensifiers to describe it as a…

his story, Poe symbolizes life, the countdown to death, and the fate everyone shares through colored rooms, an ominous clock, and the personification of death in his short story “The Masque of the Red Death”. The seven colored rooms that held the masquerade symbolize the stages of life through different colors and in a certain order. Author Kermit Vanderbilt agrees with this in his analysis of Poe’s story titled “Art and Nature in ‘The Masque of the Red Death’”. In the fifth paragraph, he…

rather than the mask they are expected to wear and would be able to express their true selves and not what others want them to be. Without learning the importance of being honest to oneself, life would be a masquerade where everyone hides their true identity behind a mask with the order of the masquerade repressing their innate…

At a masquerade party, people are expected to wear masks. The masks are meant to hide the wearer 's true identity. The people around them are only to guess who the person truly is. In the play A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen the characters also wear masks. However, their masks are constructed to hide the character’s real personality. Throughout most of the play the character’s disguise their true nature when speaking to each other, and often switching their “masks” often. These are emotional…

attempt to avoid being accused of the murders they have committed by transforming their own personalities; however, throughout the story, a more prominent manipulation of suspension of disbelief develops. Although Lady Macbeth is able to successfully masquerade as a guiding voice for her husband, she is secretly manipulating him so that she may both inflict death on as many people as possible and guarantee herself dominance of those around her. Shortly after murdering Duncan, Macbeth strives to…

emotionally open then it is more direct, and less abstract. “When We Wear the Mask,” disproves this theory for me. The main object in the poem, the mask is symbolic. The mask is not a physical mask that one would wear on Halloween or to a formal masquerade ball. The mask is the face we apply to hide our emotions and our secrets. It hides the sly smile, when your opponent fails; it hides the intensive grief or the lies we tell to cover up the latter. “It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes” (…

through Don Jon’s greedy ways; thus, perpetually displays the idea of good vs. evil. Don Jon and Don Pedro are opposites because Don Jon is manipulative while Don Pedro is helpful. The Aragon army comes to Messina and Don Jon wants to spoil the masquerade ball. Don Jon states, *“I am honest about being a villain.”*…