Essays Tagged: "masks"
Pantomime
y performed comedic plays, while pantomime had amore serious theme in it and it combined the use of masks to show different characters. The Italian style of mime involves no elaborate make-up o ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts
Twelfth Night. Two Faces, One Mind
Faces. One MindAs in most comedies, William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night extensively uses disguises, masks and mistaken identities to add to the comical nature of the play. Viola's disguise as Orsino's ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
Hamlet
lly Hamlet hides behind his madness, be it real or pretend, a person who is indecisiveand spiteful. Masks in this play are not just a theme; they are the whole basis of it.The mask theme develops thro ... e is venomous, and to Hamlet and hismad masking of his inner spite and indecisiveness. The theme of masks is developed early on, and reachesa climax where all characters at one time hear false appeara ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet
An essay on the history of Greek Theatre, what types of plays they did, where they took place, etc.
. The leader was the main and only character. At this time the lines were more chanted than spoken. Masks were worn to represent characters and high-soled boots worn to add height to actors.Greek dram ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts
Comparison of Character Masks in the novel "The Stranger" by Albert Camus
's external personality to suit the specific situation, much like putting on and removing different masks. People tend to be polite and respectful to others in public even though they may not know the ... is quite easy to notice but other times it may be difficult to identify the changes in character's masks as the changes slowly develop throughout the plot.A form of mask wearing was found at the begi ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
african art and its beauty and significance. AFrican culture explained
ige, orhave a religious significance.African art consists mainly ofsculptures, paintings, fetishes, masks, figures, and decorativeobjects.Sculptures are considered to be the greatest achievement forAf ... thern and Eastern Africa. These paintings are believed tobe attributed to the SAN (Bushman) people. Masks and fetishes areoften used to scare off bad things such as evil spirits, witches orghosts. The ...
Subjects: Art Essays
Drama and how it got started
metimes used in this way today. The frills and the style of drama have changed over the years, from masks of the ancient Greek, to the largely imaginary settings of the Elizabethan era and the elabora ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama
Identify the Codes and Conventions used by the Performers and the Audience in Commedia Dell"Arte
ve stemmed from the carnivals in Italy . Here it rose from the people from folk theatre, which used masks and music, and from the charlatans using pretence as a means of earning money.The form combine ... hem and laugh. As the people changed, so too did stock characters. More were added into the list of masks, and elements such as costume changed to suit the society the play was directed at.Performance ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts
Jerzy Grotowski "Poor mans theatre".
blaze of light.We fight then to discover, to experience the truth about ourselves, to tear away the masks behind which we hide daily. People see theatre as a place of provocation, a challenge the acto ... themselves. In this way usually through shock it allows people to come out from behind their daily masks. People are then able, without hiding anything, to see themselves as what they sub consciously ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama
Music as a culture in the Caribbean.
an African tradition and festival, which consists of people parading in the streets in costumes and masks. This celebration normally takes place a few days before the start of the Catholic lent season ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
Intertextuality in Fumiko Enchi's "Masks"
itself in one way, whereas in class there is a different character. These characters can be called masks and just as you change your appearance for one situation or another you can change your mask. ... t as you change your appearance for one situation or another you can change your mask. This idea of masks is an American one, yet it plays into how we as American's read and interpret Enchi's novel, M ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Anthropology
Importance of Carnival in Aphra Behn's The Rover
ting is Carnival time in Venice, which is important to the plot for several reasons: the wearing of masks (as was customary) allows a freedom from normal constraints, there is often in the play a mist ... nival times class barriers came down with the rich mingling with the poor. The tradition of wearing masks at carnival time became necessary in order to protect the identities of the rich (2). This als ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Was the KKK Successful?
under law, and tried to renovate a way of life that brought on the Civil War, while they hid behind masks and waited to expose themselves until nighttime. The Ku Klux Klan created a pressure, fear and ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Compare and Contrast "Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde" (1885) written by Robert Louis Stevenson, and the poem "The Buried Life" (1822) written by Matthew Arnold.
Buried Life", the persona speaks in a dissatisfied state of mind about surfaces and depths, of the masks we chose to disguise our true selves with, and about appearances and reality. From the paranoi ... he persona is talking about how we normally lead and live the surface life, donning the appropriate masks for the appropriate situations. In "Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde", Dr.Jekyll attempts to keep the bur ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Macbeth - From your studies of "Macbeth" show to what extent you think Shakespeare followed and built upon the classical tradition of dramatic tragedy.
; the gods controlled him.In Greek tragedy plot was always emphasized over character; everyone wore masks. These masks would seem to mask a person's character. This would make the character seem more ... complex than Greek tragedies because of the predominance of fate featuring in them.The Greeks used masks and so had no real chance to make an individual character like Shakespeare did with Macbeth. O ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Macbeth
A analysis of William shakespeare's play Macbeth. This essay comments on how the lead character Macbeth changes in the play, in Act 1 scene 3 to Act 3 scene 1.
hich led to the murder of King Duncan. In Act 3 scene 1, he is consumed by his own thoughts, and he masks his true feelings behind a veil of words, and is his sense of insecurity ultimately leads him ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Macbeth
A Brief Overview of Commedia del arte, and Some Character Types
ly a company of 10 or more actors. Each actor developed a specific type of character. They all wore masks and roles were eventually called masks. These travelling teams of players would set up an outd ... t jokes and punchlines.Each actor had specialised roles. The characters were identified by costume, masks, and customary props. For instance, the male roles were depicted by actors wearing masks repre ...
Subjects: Art Essays
Sea Gypsies of Asia Boast "Incredible" Underwater Vision.
oasts of Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand.They harvest the sea's bounty by traditional methods. Without masks or scuba gear, they are able to gather tiny shellfish and other food on the ocean floor at dep ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays > Travel Descriptions
Hospitality of The Devil
be alarmed because you're here to stay.So all you can do now is pray.What's inside here you ask.No masks.Just the real thing.But what should you bring.Nothing.But please leave your happiness at the d ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories
Conflicts on the Declaration of Independence
ing Fathers' actions during the revolutionary war and their motivations for it in this document. He masks the economic motivations by saying that humans have natural rights; life, liberty, and the pur ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History