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In the many works of famed and prolific writers, evidence can be found supporting the fact that, for some reason or another, characters often hide who they are with some sort of mask. Jack Merridew from Lord of the Flies, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, as well as David from Breaking away, are all great examples of the phenomenon know n as maskuerading. Jack Merridew was an average schoolboy from England until he became stranded on an island with dozens of other boys. Jack like much of the other boys on the island were very inexperienced in the ways of survival techniques. Due to this lack of experience all of the children put on a mask of some sort to maintain sanity. The mask Jack put on however, was not to merely keep sanity, his mask was donned to threaten, subdue, and intimidate the other children. Jack became jealous of the power that resided in Ralph, and hated him along with any of his followers. Jack, when behind his mask became a very violent person, interested mainly in hunting and cult like rituals that he urged the children to attend. As the "ringleader" of such gatherings he would persuade his minions that Ral
------------------------------------------------------------------------ ph and all of his ideas would be detrimental to the well being of the island community. He would coerce the children to rob, pillage, and even cause harm to any who opposed his teachings. Jack wears his ! Cyrano de Bergerac, the man with a sharp wit and a quick sword (and vice versa) wears a mask. Monsieur de Bergerac's nose is large and he knows it. He flaunts it, he brings it up if someone else doesn't, he'll even argue with you about it's grandiosity. This large nose, in his mind, makes him ugly, and believes that no one could ever find a man with such hideous features, attractive. Therefore he wears a mask to hide his self-consciousness. He pretends to be a real tough guy, but in reality he is a very sensitive, smart and poetic man. This is elucidated when he begins to use Christian as a mask to reach Roxanne and finally tell her all of the things that he has been yearning to say. He wears this mask because he feels that, due to his disfigured face that this is the only way that he can express himself to Roxanne. At the end of the play when Cyrano is nearing his death, he takes off his mask an
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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