Masquerade

Children are waiting for this day, they lie in wait month by month and plot what costumes they will wear on this day; they figure out who amongst their friends and family will gather the most candy; this day is called Halloween. Halloween is the one day in the whole year where people and children alike dress up in costumes and go door to door in order to accumulate candy, however, one would not think that Halloween was not always a child-friendly holiday but had a shadowy and foggy past.…

Imagine living in a society where all of your opinions are made up for you, years before you were even born. You’re not allowed to choose who you like or who you hate because society has set it all out for you. Now this is starting to sound like a dystopian novel, but it’s not. The classic Romeo and Juliet and To Kill a Mockingbird share some qualities with our well loved dystopian novels. Both are based around two parts of society that hate each other, and there are children who are able to see…

When most people think of the Viking’s, people often think of the image ingrained in popular culture whether through films, books or other stories. The image of an imposing long haired bearded savage warrior, who along with his band of mercenary’s raided and pillaged the land and dominated Europe. Although raiding did take place this was only one aspect of their way of life and various aspects of their culture actually influenced society such as their architecture. The time during which the…

Twelfth Night Thesis In Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, love is found in many miraculous ways; friendship, pranks, dismissal. Although love does have many different forms, the underlying theme of love in this particular piece would be, that love can appear unexpectedly, and with no warning in advance. Love can be found in even the most grim looking situations. Unrequited love specifically. The love of Olivia to Viola, Viola and Orsino, Orsino to Olivia, and humorously enough, the love that Toby and…

A single family member “disabled by the disorder can destabilize an entire household, a single diagnosed case can mean several collateral victims” (Kluger, Cray and Pomerance, 2007, p. 44). In addition, OCD can “masquerade” as other conditions such as bipolar disorder, depression and even schizophrenia (Kluger, Cray and Pomerance, 2007). Since victims of the disease tend to be ashamed of it, and conceal it, it make take years before a diagnosis is made (Kluger, Cray…

Zayd Siddiqui Mr. Devine ENG 1D1 Jan/8/16 Causes For Romeo And Juliet’s Death “From Forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star-crossed lovers take their lives”. Romeo and Juliet is an 16th Century play written by William Shakespeare. The Play Portraits the life of two star-crossed lovers as they live hiding their love in fear and secret from their feuding families, the Capulets and the Montagues. This Path ultimately leads to the two lover’s horrible death, but what were the…

Bianca, local prostitute and a clingy companion of Cassio, was instead used for verbal verification and is once again a victim of Iago’s masterful manipulation tactics. This time around, Iago used Bianca’s very existence to masquerade as Desdemona in a conversation. Iago was overtly aware of how a woman such as Bianca is regarded in society, and leads Cassio into a discussion about her plagued with degradation. A purposely placed Othello nearby overhears Cassio state “she hangs…

School can be like a masquerade, but with less romance and more tension. When I was a teen I started to realize and learn that people can be different, sometimes people use these changes as an advantage which caused people to act like somebody else as if they were putting a “mask” This applies to having a “mindset”, in this case they’re relatively closer to having a fixed mindset, whereas some people will not be afraid at all that they will rather embrace it which makes them have a mindset…

The author has a unique style of writing and the name Edgar Allan Poe brings to mind the various images of madmen, murderers, mysteries, eccentric men and women and mysterious burials. His works were mainly published in the 1800s. He has written a lot of short stories, essays, novels, poetry etc and is considered to be a pioneer in the world of fiction stories and detective stories. He was a prominent American writer who made his living writing horror poetries and various mysterious stories and…

The ‘Double standard of ageing’ is the idea that women are compared in a harsher way to men as they get older. Sontag noted in her article the ‘double standard of ageing’ 1972 that the relations between men and women are based on hypocrisy as men do not face the same pressures as women during the ageing process. The relationship between gender and age is generally understudied and has only started coming to the fore of sociological studies in recent years. Subsequently there are much more…