A bildungsroman is acknowledged as a coming-of-age novel, the novel "Jane Eyre" is a perfect example of this. We follow the main character which is Jane and we experience her hardships of being an orphan and longing to find that love of something or someone to love her back as she was abused by her aunt and cousins before being sent off to her boarding school. She later then finds her teacher and finds her as a. motherly figure to Jane, because she felt so loved and secure with her teacher she found education a safe haven. She fell in love with education and decided that she wanted to pursue it because it made her content, through these examples, we can clearly see that she has learned and grown by finding her purpose or passion in life but also finding that true meaning of love toward someone that she had never experienced up until that point in her life.
A bildungsroman is considered a coming-of-age novel. Jane Eyre is a novel that follows the main character, Jane Eyre, through her years and what she goes through in her life; how she finds her family and the love of her life. The novel is a coming-of-age novel, therefore it is categorized as a bildungsroman as well.
Sorry its not great and its not 250 words but I just had this question and this is what I wrote.
Perhaps Dunbar uses the image of a mask as wearing a face allows us to conceal our face - enabling us to hide any expression or emotion. In his poem, he mentions how black people felt the need to appear as content or happy when surrounded by people who were white - especially when they felt the opposite. The mask represents the false expressions the blacks had to wear.
