Beneficial Aspects of Unmasking Different Views “No pestilence had ever been so fatal.” A line from Edgar Allan Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death introduces the story of how the past caught up with an ignorant ruler. The short tale presents the revelers’ lasting, stagnant, and incorrect assumption that they could evade imminent death. For that reason, one’s distinct opinion is helpful for maintaining their trust in an idea, learning from their own and others views, and coming to a single consensus based on those differences. Sustaining hope in others and in oneself, differing beliefs are beneficial. Deborah’s real intentions were disputed between the main protagonist and her father. Initially, he tells Lily that Deborah was attempting to …show more content…
Initially, Lily deduced that Rosaleen was a prime example of how all African-Americans were—uncultured and not possibly as smart as Lily, being light-skinned. She discovers later on that this stereotype couldn’t be further from the truth. The Boatwright sisters (especially August) is described as intelligent, special, and thoughtful which contradicts Lily’s earlier belief (Kidd, 2001). From this, Lily identifies her own prejudice about different races’ capabilities, and she forms her own opinions in place of society’s disdain and bias against the other race. Although people may feel that their opinion is concrete and that differing opinions would be unnecessary, opinions can easily be influenced by experiences over time. Her views shift for the better throughout the novel. By the end, she feels lovingly at home with the Boatwrights and persuades T. Ray to let her stay with them. This benefited Lily in particular since she received the motherly love she’d been longing for, supporting that differing views are helpful when trying to learn about others. Additionally, as the grandfather clock in The Masque of the Red Death strikes, marking each hour closer to the guests’ demise, a wave of uneasiness passes over them as they become more and more mindful of their end. But during those few hours, they expressed their freedom through grotesque costumes (Poe, 1842). Sometime …show more content…
Some may argue that differing views provoke hostility between groups rather than promote camaraderie, but different beliefs can bring new outlooks on a subject and thus compel people to get along. June and Lily’s distaste for each other is obvious from the beginning. June concludes that Lily was a carbon copy of Deborah, whom she had disliked for other reasons. Lily strained to listen as June and August discussed this. The younger sister stressed that the girl couldn’t stay with them just because she was white. It had always been the other way around—the white man accusing the black man—so this new insult was shocking to Lily. But over the weeks, they learn to work together rather than resent each other (Kidd, 2001). This mutual respect was possible because they learned to push past their differences—as cliché as that may sound—and see each other as human beings instead of ethnic labels. When they engaged in a water fight, they laughed together just like any regular friends would, and that prompted them to realize that they were more alike than what first meets the eye. Now, whenever they work together on honey collection and beeswax, they are sincerely happier. Lastly, in Poe’s short story, the revelers have different ideas about the masked figure (Poe, 1842). Some guests are wary of the guest, they think he may have the plague, judging from his horrendous Red Death face mask.
But eventually she ends up figuring out everything. Lilly had a very rough start to her life. But this makes her become stronger than everyone else that had it easy. She becomes a better person
Don’t let people talk about your region, when they are not from that region and criticize your country and offend you in someway. The author John Smelcer has been criticizing or stereotyping native americans, and i think he has no right to be writing about a Native American because he has not been born in and description of characters might irritate the native americans which would give a bad reputation for him and his book. I understand that people might say it’s fine because he is adopted by Native American parents , but that does not mean that he himself can write about Native American. In a way that would bother them. But there is no reason to put the Natives in the book ,“The Great Death” as if they are new to the world and never new anything because he is basically stereotyping.
Lily barely knew her own mother, and T. Ray, her father, abuses her and could care less. Lily gets to experience the parent-child love from Rosaleen. Kidd asserts that the interaction between different races can lead to loving
The author made a clear example of stereotyping in chapter 15 page 122 when Ellie made the assumption that
In Edgar Allen Poe’s, “The Masque of the Red Death”, the terror spreading throughout the guests of the party helps it seem as if the Red Death was slowly forcing itself into the masquerade. The masked figure within the story is described as “…unutterable horror” (Poe, 452). The vivid descriptions within the story produce anxiety and cause unease for the guests, adding to the underlying fear of the current red death pandemic. A quote that builds a lot of suspense is “…turned suddenly and confronted his pursuer” (Poe, 452). This chase forces the guests to freeze because a confrontation is about to happen.
The Masque of the Red Death has a lot of symbolism that has to do with the circle of life- such as the different colors of the seven rooms each meaning one stage of life. The stages of life obviously have relations to death, possibly even being centered around it. The thought is just so artistically
In “The Masque of the Red Death,” Poe describes the nasty symptoms of Ebola. Poe says, “There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution. The scarlet stains upon the body and especially upon the face of the victim, were the pest ban which shut him out from the aid and from the sympathy of his fellow-men.” The description of the pain and fatality of this disease makes the reader wince by just imagining the agony of the afflicted. Moreover, Poe pens the violent acts people inflict on each other.
Although Lily did suffer a great loss from losing her mom, she gained so much more with the love and support that the Boatwrights and their group gave her. She has gained friends, someone to look up to, and the sense of family from all of them. Without the loss of her mom and the abuse of her dad she would never of gotten the experience of such powerful female role models and a new
But one of Poe’s stories, The Masque of the Red Death (1842), relies heavily on themes of death, pestilence, human nature, and religion. Through these themes and symbolism, Poe explores the darker side of humanity and the meaning behind life. “The Masque of the Red Death” is a story about Prince Prospero and his kingdom that
Based on this novel, the enforcement of racism will result in a lifetime of suffering. Rosaleen, the protagonist’s closest black friend, is negatively impacted by the experiences she encounters with three white nigger haters. As Rosaleen and Lily (main character of the novel) are entering the town of Sylvan, the three nigger haters begin judging Rosaleen due to her black appearances. Gradually, Rosaleen becomes more and more irritated with their insults.
Packer does not give a direct explanation of why there is this hate, but works to show through her description of this story how even for adults, hate and polarization of the two groups comes from a difference in socioeconomic class. For example, when Laurel describes the way that the Mennonites painted the porch, she says “the Mennonites [bent] the way Daphne had bent when she was cleaning the restroom”(31). Laurel is realizes that to her father, whiteness is synonymous with privilege and socioeconomic class. Daphne is from a certain economic class where her mother has to do for a living a task that requires her to go “on [her] knees” and clean—a task few white people would ever have to do. Packer illustrates how a jealousy towards white people from a young age based on socioeconomic class and societal standards of beauty, can continue into a hatred in adulthood because of what jobs people of low socioeconomic class are forced to
Carole is a mixed girl but Henry and Betty Norton, the two antagonists, keep pestering her to find out her race. While they continuously asked her about her race, they were very insensitive and ignorant towards the fact Carole is just a young girl. One of the quotes that really shows this is, “‘What are you, anyway? My wife and I had been wondering.’ Carole blinks, sees the man’s clear blue eyes and drops her head.”
Nature and men have always been in conflict. Even though humans are part of Nature, we see ourselves as entities unrelated to it. Since the prehistory, we have been using Nature at our favor mostly to feed ourselves.
In Poe’s stories, the main characters experience fear, but they all handle it distinctively. Poe uses irony, symbolism, and imagery to show how fear affects the narrator’s mindset, along with their future. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Masque of Red Death”, the main characters try to isolate themselves from evil, but Poe uses irony to show that death is inevitable.
As a result of Aibileen’s changes, Aibileen’s voice is brittle, tremulous and quavering while expressing her perspective because she is angry at the inequality. Now she cannot accept this unfair and irrational discrimination from the world. She changes amazingly. She showed her courage and opinions to white racists. The other blacks starts to pluck up courage to confront the whites’ wrong view about racism, for example Minny who is a black maid participates to help Skeeter publishing the book and then all of maids start to decide telling their stories for a book.