Tuxedo Mask

The Mask with Seven Birds was made sometimes between the 1800s and 1900s and made out of wood pigment and is from the Yoruba Kingdom in Nigeria, it is one of the mask that honor women's power in the gelede festival . The gelede festival is to honor women living or dead they are called " The Mothers" and they are believed to possess the secret of life itself and the power to bring humans into this world and take them out. The mothers can use the secrets for good or bad and if she uses the bad she

To make the mask a little more interesting I have created two flaps that cover the mask except for the two eye sockets. On the flaps you will see a map of the island with much detail and color to represent the luscious landform and will provide the feeling of what's going on inside the island once you

Dove The year is 1831 and war has erupted between the countries of Aragon and Gan. Tension has been brewing between the neighboring countries for centuries now. The Florentine’s blood line of Gan has been eyeing Aragon from generation to generation, plotting ways on how to seize the nation. It was not until King Lucien Florentine’s ruling when his family’s vicious visions were finally enacted. Soldiers can be seen fighting with honor impaled into their hearts. Soldiers can be seen praying for an

The rum flowed violently as the bartender poured drink after drink for an off duty police officer. His name was Saers, James Saers and it was his first year of joining the force. He had just taken his first life for the badge and he wasn’t handling it very well at all. “I reckon you’ve had enough mate,” said the bartender, as Saers demanded another drink. “I don’t want to hear it, just pour me another one” said Saers. As the bartender was pouring his drink, a glass smashed further down the bar

Today's society is leading people into putting on a mask as to fool people because everyone is considered an outsider, although when a person considers all the flaws in society, they realize that their characteristics are not acceptable in society. On top of that, people have this sense of feeling like an outsider since they do not belong anywhere in the world. Society inflicts an influence that changes people and the mask they choose to express themselves. Those who speak the truth, conceal their

Hyperbole and metaphors used in the poem links to how everyone wears a mask once in the while and has the same universal feeling of hopelessness. Dunbar goes on to note that the more you ignore something, it lays dormant and may come back even bigger. In “ We Wear the Mask,” Dunbar exaggerates how changing can be beneficial and harmful because it can be concluded that all the illusions and subdued emotions are just phony disguises of the painful truths that hide behind them. Thus, people would want

In the poem We Wear the Mask, author Paul Laurence Dunbar uses figurative language in many instances. Personification, one of the figures of speech most used by Dunbar, can be seen continuously throughout his poem. For instance, in the first line of the first stanza, Dunbar uses personification when he writes “We wear the mask that grins and lies” because the mask is portraying human-like qualities. The mask represents how the subjects of the poem, African Americans, display a physical image that

This mask depicts Jack’s identity from the book Lord of the Flies. Starting from the bottom of the mask, there is a quote from Jack which is one of the last things he says before leaving Ralph’s group: “I’m not going to play any longer. Not with you”. This quote is significant to Jack because not only does it show the end of the impact on Jack that the tamed and edified society Ralph has developed, it shows how childish he is. Before Jack says this, he puts Ralph’s conch on the grass in front of

Alternative personalities live as well as thrive within individuals urging to escape imprisonment. The embodiment this other being takes is divergent, depending on who and what a person experienced in life. When creating the mask, elements that described inner self that has never been shown in public portrays emotional stages. Whether designs, color, or symbols, all transport hidden characteristics one would embrace if society made clear this is acceptable. The color blue is used as a way to demonstrate

Masks are used in society to conceal one’s appearance and also as a means for impersonation. When we encounter someone wearing a mask, we assume they are pretending to be whatever that mask depicts. We are aware that there is a person underneath, but we assume that they bear no resemblance to the mask they wear. If they were, then why would they were a mask in the first place? In graphic novel MAUS II, Art Spiegelman tells the story of his father’s experiences within the Nazi concentration camp