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Like most functions which break barriers of class, gender, and
ethnicity by challenging social norms, the eighteenth-century masquerade had
strong and vocal opponents.
"Middle-class moralist" such as Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson and Eliza
Haywood also aligned themselves with the anti-masquerade movement.
through their fictional
writing and artistic expression [3]
Masked parties were only occasionally broken up
by civil authorities
. The Weekly Journal
as a gathering of
"Chamber-Maids, Cook-Maids, Foot-Men, and Apprentices" [5]
it was more likely that the event had been hosted by those of
the working class rather than by the more prominent people in England's "fashionable
society."
. Many opponents of the masquerade looked to
the foreign influence of other European nations such as Italy and France and
the Orient as the diabolical source of the "cultural epidemic" which they
believed was invading both the morality and the national pride of England
[7].
"foreign Diversion" was a conspiracy on
the part of foreign nations to neutralize the beauty of English women by forcing
them to "hide their charms with a mask" [10].
Weekly Journal another
writer
"conspiracy theories"
equated attending the masquerade with the sexual
act itself,
female attendance at the masquerade
was viewed as a heinous, criminal offence, though not condoned, male attendance
was more or less tolerated by the critics of the masked balls.
claimed that the tragedy of the Lisbon
earthquake occurred as a result of the sin and corruption that had been infecting
not only English culture but also the culture of the world for many years.
As a result of these public outcries, the masquerades were forbidden
to take place throughout the following year [15].
In her comprehensive study on the eighteenth-century
English masquerade, Masquerade and Civilization, Terry Castle explains
that the discourse of the anti-masquerade movement which exposed the masquerade
as "a threat to bourgeois decorum and national taxonomies" could actually
help explain the cultural implications of the decline of the masquerade.
It talks about how English-language newspapers dominate South Africa's print media. This is very interesting to me because you would think that more people would want to read something in their native language, yet millions of Africans are preferring to read their newspaper in English. It also stated that "the English-language press is also read by the most important decision makers and policy advisers in the country on a regular basis and no doubt influences coverage in non-English newspapers as well as television and radio". What in the world is going on here? This is corrupting their culture!
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