Reflection Of The Giglio Festival

A character’s costume is much more than the clothes they wear to play a part. These clothes help us venture into the author’s world and help us connect with this new place and believe in its reality. They help us capture so much more than what the character looks like. We are able to see, feel, and experience the characters personality and purpose in the story. In a play or movie, we immediately make our fist connection with a character based on what they are wearing, this is the first step in drawing us in and making us believe in this new world. This first impression gives us the first glimpse at the characters style, background, and social class. All of these things are meant to immediately draw us in.

The Madonna of 115th Street is an amazing example of hospitality throughout history. The excerpt details the days and nights of the Festa. On July 16th, the great bell in the campanile of the church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel announces that the festa had begun. This fetsa unites several Italian communities from those in Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and California. Preparation for this festival can take weeks at a time, houses are cleaned from head to toe in anticipation of housing relatives visiting from other states. For the next few weeks the community gathers together in the streets and celebrates greatly from sunrise to sunset. Music, dancing, fires, festivals, everything is prominent in the streets as the Italian community seeks to express itself. The festa is a time to come together and create a sense of community. Religious foundations, sharing of food, parades, all of this signifies what it is to be a part of the Festa. Hospitality is creating a warm and welcome environment to those around you. Everything about the Festa signifies these qualities.

The masks act as a way for the guests to block their guilt from being exposed after leaving people beyond the four walls to fend for themselves. “It was towards the close of the fifth or sixth month of his seclusion, and while the pestilence raged most furiously abroad, that the prince Prospero entertained his thousand friends at a masked ball of the most unusual magnificence” (Poe, Par.4). The invitees put on masks to symbolically obscure themselves from the fate of the “Red Death”. Poe is stating that the people are falling into the same arrogant way of thinking as Prospero by trying to escape disease. The party-goers are also hiding from themselves and each other because they selfishly tried to make themselves immune to the disease while leaving the outside world to fend for their lives. The masks being worn also helps give the sense of confidence while being “hidden”, especially Prospero. “ ‘Who dares’-- he demanded hoarsely of the courtiers who stood near him-- ‘Who dares insult us with this blasphemous mockery? Seize him and unmask him-that we may know whom we have to hang, at sunrise, from the battlements!’ (Poe, par.11). As soon as Prospero’s eyes landed on the mummer, there was a surge of confidence that shot up within his body in a split second. The mask upon Prospero’s face caused him to act in a boastful and cocky way to try and defeat the mummer, despite

The costumes resembled a traditional idea of Death of a Salesman costumes, but with a twist. Willy wore a white collared shirt but the upper sleeves were ripped off, so when he was wearing his blazer during the flashbacks you could not see the missing sleeves. Linda wore a outfits resembling a maid or a housewife. Both Linda and Willy wore masks when they acted in present time to create a separation from the audience and the appearance of old age. Biff is the only character who wears shoes, does not wear a mask, and is not completely represented by an object.

They also have someone who plays the piano and sings along with the choir. They are all try to match the same color, (The day that I was there, they were wearing red and black) using their own clothes. Some of them use dresses and the men use a suit or a formal dress shirt.

Masks were sometimes created for the purpose of being used in a ceremonies by a priest. The mask would be a certain deity and the priest would be dressed in costume to play out that character. By portraying the deity the priest would be

My favorite accessory was the hats with the big feathers on them. I felt that it gave the audience a better feel of the time period. I also loved the tight dresses that the woman wore with the puffy bottoms. The woman also wore the big earrings, had the long tight curled hair, vibrant makeup, and elegant dresses. The men had the long curly hair and the facial hair. The men wore capes and had swords that they carried everywhere. Along with the pointy toed shoes.

Why would one wear a mask? When at such an event usually an upper-class member would perform, the mask allowed them to share feelings and be honest with their audience. It kept them from having to expose one’s self. You would hope to find an elaborate and dramatic costume as that would have matched the scenery. When preforming a masque, they were not only disguised but sometimes they were portraying a mythological figure to clearly demon straight their point of views. When one decided to attend one of these social upper class events it was okay for a woman to attend whether apart of the upper or lower class. However, if you were not a part of the upper class you were not allowed to perform but only attend. As for men, they did not have a rule on lower or upper class

We’ve all heard of the festival being a scene with women flashing for beads and I totally expected the streets (especially Bourbon Street) to be filled with half-naked drunk people. What I found instead, were elaborately dressed festival-goers of all ages celebrating, laughing and expressing themselves through music, art, and dance. While many costumes and signs were humorous and outrageous, I never once felt anything other than love and positivity around

Games, food, music, and entertainment were available to those who came to the festival. It was a memorable experience as families came to support the performing arts. Children were excited by the games, prizes, and snacks as the adults conversed and observed the performers.

Delicately carved, gracefully painted, accurately describes the masks constructed for the reenactment. Culturally these masks have influenced my life the most. Their culture significant was due to my parents insisting that we become

Pluto’s care. Mercury is honored with the Matralia festival, that took place during the summer. It is said that only four hours after he was born Mercury found the shell of a turtle and made a musical instrument out of it with nine cords to honor the nine Muses. Mercury later fell in love with a woman named Larunda. Laranda told Juno of Jupiter’s affair with a nymph and as punishment he cut out her tongue. On his way to escort Laranda to the underworld Mercury fell in love with her, and she later had their two children. Mercury hid them away on earth in a cottage so Jupiter would not find them and finish what he started. Mercury also later had a son named Pan, and he was on the council of gods.

In the film, the costumes of the nuns when they sing in the choir, remains the classic nun costume, with their habits in black and white, even in the final song. On the other hand, the costume in the play, in the first song they sing is similar to the habit of the nuns, but along with their fame are changing the costumes in color and in the drawings with glitter; they Being more and more strikings. Regarding the costumes of the protagonist and her companions, at the beginning of the play, in the small place of alternation, have a style of the 60s with bell-bottoms, short dresses and high boots with high heels.

In this chapter we will discuss and analize about the Social & cultural impacts of Glastonbury festival. As we know, The Glastonbury festival is a largest open-air music and performing arts in the world so it has considerable influence to people about social and cultural.

The women were dressed casually and many of them were wearing knee high boots over their jeans, which is a popular fashion right now with women from teens to middle age. The men were dressed in jeans, tennis shoes, and t-shirts depicting their favorite sports team. Based on the name brands and style of clothing that I was viewing, I would say that the majority of the people present at this festival were members of the middle to upper middle socioeconomic class. Moving on a little further with that analysis, I would also say that many of the patrons were also college educated. I draw this conclusion from the fact that they appear to be well dressed and wearing name brand clothing. Name brand clothing is not inexpensive and would normally be purchased by someone who makes a good wage. In the current economic time, in which we live, it almost impossible to achieve a good wage without a college education.