Black Robe

The movie Black Robe is a bit slow at providing appropriate evidence of Indian colonization of the French but when it does it is extremely powerful.

Black Robe presents the story of a French Jesuit missionary struggling to stay true to his religion while traveling from Champlain’s fur trading outpost to a Huron Native American mission in Nouvelle France during the 17th century. Father Paul La Forgue sets out on the 1,500 mile journey with members of the Algonquian tribe and a young Frenchman named Daniel Davost, determined to convert the “savages” to Christianity. Throughout the film, Father La Forgue faces the Algonquians’ beliefs that he is a demon, calling him “Black Robe”, and even abandoning him for a short period. Later, when his Algonquian guides and Daniel recover him, they are captured and tortured by an Iroquois tribe. Eventually,

Black Robe is a film that greatly exemplifies the views the Natives and the French held of one another during the 1600s. Both groups help impressions of each other that influenced how they interacted together. During the Native and French encounters in Black Robe, it was apparent that Natives viewed the French as incompetent, weak, but also interesting; the French had their own impressions that the Natives were savages and in need of salvation. It is with the Algonquins that one can see the interest they held in their view of the French. In Black Robe, there is a scene with the Natives sitting in a church-like building watching a clock.

DuBois's story "The Veil" shows a concept that is visible on many levels. The veil can be seen as the literal darker skin of the black people, which is an easy way to identitify any race from any other race. This physical trait allows for discrimination solely because it is the easiest thing to point out. The veil also explores the idea of the White's lack of acceptance of Blacks as Americans, let alone "real" Americans. The veil also covers the notion of the Blacks' inability to see themselves outside of what America (White Americans) had described them as.

In this chapter it talks about how Catherine LeMaigre was dying, and dying horribly and painfully. The two physicians sent for their esteemed colleague Dr. Benjamin Rush. They were trying to find out if they could stop the plague from spreading.

As DuBois looks through the veil, he can see a world that he loves, but cannot belong to because it belongs to the whites. The veil perpetuates the concept of alienation from the world to which he knows he will never belong. From the other side, whites look through at blacks, and construct their own opinions of the opposing race, and in doing so, create an opinion that is accepted by blacks themselves. The distortion created by the veil muddles the world of the whites and also the self-knowledge within each individual on the black side of the veil.

The veil that the minister wears in "The Ministers Black Veil", by Nathanial Hawthorne represents the emphasis on man's inner reality, and those thoughts and feelings which are not immediately obvious. As Hawthorne explored this inner nature, he found the source of dignity and virtue, and certain elements of darkness. When the minister first walks out of his home wearing the veil, everyone is astonished. This one man in this village decides to be a nonconformist and wear this veil without explanation. No one understands why the minister would wear such a veil for no reason at all. This is where all the assumptions begin to linger. All of the villagers have a story for why the veil is there. These people are

When Parson Hooper first dons the black veil, and long after, the community is fascinated, curious, suspicious, and almost outraged that Mr. Hooper

“The Minister’s Black Veil” seems like a moral allegory. Not just the veil but the act of wearing it is important. The veil also alienates the parson from people.

The Black veil could symbolize three things which are adultery, a secret sin, or the darkness of humanity. The reason the black veil could symbolize adultery is because he might have had a secret encounter with a women that he wasn't with. The reason it could symbolize this is because he has a wife named Elizabeth and he might have cheated on her and he doesn't want her to know. During the story the wife asks Mr. Hooper to take the veil off or they are going to split and he didn't take it off so he might have felt so guilty about cheating on her that he wants her to leave.

Set in the New England town of Milford, the short story takes place in a Puritan society. Historically, Puritan towns were generally close-knit communities. In “The Minister’s Black Veil,” society holds a very heavy presence. When Mr. Hooper first appears in public with a black veil “swathed about his

In the movies, The New World directed by Terrence Malick and The Black Robe directed by Bruce Beresford focused on the European romanticize probabilities of the new world with indigenous Americans. In both movies, directors showed that European interactions included, love interests between the indigenous women and European men, making peace between the native Americans, realized that the indigenous people have no boundaries and that indigenous people could be an enemy. The directors wanted the viewers to enjoy the movies, so they incorporated a little romance to the films. They staged indigenous women as beautiful and forbidden to the European man, in our cases John Smith and Daniel. In The New World, John Smith goes on to describe Pocahontas

Antoinette, as a Creole, belong neither the White nor the Black. She exposes to the open threats of the area’s black community. As Antoinette herself describes, a little girl calls them “white cockroaches” (Rhys 8). The blacks even set fire to her house.

As far as I know, I’ve never worn anything embarrassing against my will. However, I have seen pictures of some not so great outfits that I wore as a baby. Why my mom had me wear them, I have no idea. If I had had an opinion, I would have never worn them.

In Black Robe Father Laforgue along with 20 year old assistant Daniel set out to the Huron Village on a journey that eventually changed both of their lives. The goal of the journey these two go on, is the convert the Hurons, and Algonkin to Christianity. Through out Father Laforgue’s journey many things make him question if he is doing the right thing by trying to convert the savages. Algonkin had many different beliefs then Laforgue, a major one being, they believed that their dreams told the future. The Algonkin also thought the Black Robes were sorcery and would put spells on them. Father Laforgue lost the faith of his assistant Daniel when he fell in love with Annuka. Daniel began to sin by having sex with her, he tried to keep it a secret from Laforgue but he caught Daniel in the act. When Father Laforgue arrives to the village of Ihonatiria, he begins to question himself. He wonders what the point of baptising them is if they are not going to commit to the life of Christianity. Father Laforgue at first set out on a mission to convert the savages, he now realises there is no point in trying to make them into something they are not.