George Orwell's thesis

The Different Conceptions of the Veil in The Souls of shameful Folk For

now we agree through a glass, darkly -Isiah 25:7 W.E.B. Du

Boiss Souls of Black Folk, a collection of autobiographical and

historical essays contains many matters. There is the theme of souls and

their attainment of consciousness, the theme of double consciousness and

the duality and bifurcation of stern life and culture; but one of the close to

striking themes is that of the veil. The veil provides a link between

the 14 seemingly unconnected essays that make up The Souls of Black Folk.

Mentioned at least once in most of the 14 essays it means that, the Negro

is a sort of seventh son, born(p) with a veil, and gifted with second sight

in this the Statesn world, -a world with yields him no true

edginess, but only lets him see himself through the revelation

of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double consciousness,

this sense of always looking at ones self through the eyes of

others.Footnote1 The veil is a illustration for the separation and

invisibility of black life and existence in America and is a reoccurring

theme in books about black life in America.



Du Boiss veil

metaphor, In those somber forests of his striving his own soul rose

before him, and he saw himself, -darkly as though through a

veilFootnote2, is a allusion to canonise Pauls line in Isiah 25:7, For now

we see through a glass, darkly.Footnote3 Saint Pauls use of the veil in

Isiah and later in cooperate Corinthians is similar to Du Boiss use of the

metaphor of the veil. Both writers claim that as colossal as one is wrapped in

the veil their attempts to gain self-consciousness will fail because they

will always see the image of themselves...

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