George Orwell's thesis
The Different Conceptions of the Veil in The Souls of Black Folk "For
now we see through a glass, darkly" -Isiah 25:7 W.E.B. Du
Bois's Souls of Black Folk, a collection of autobiographical and
historical essays contains many themes. There is the theme of souls and
their attainment of consciousness, the theme of double consciousness and
the duality and bifurcation of black life and culture; but one of the most
striking themes is that …
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…brothers and sisters. Du Bois wrote Souls of
Black Folks to lift the veil and show the pain and sorrow of a striving
people. Like Saint Paul's letter to the Corinthians Du Bois's "letter" to
the American people urges people not to live behind the veil but to live
above it. So, wed with truth, I dwell above the Veil.
Is this the life you grudge us, O knightly America? -W.E.B.
Du Bois
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