“We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar is an example of an archetype. In this poem Dunbar continuously presses the idea of wearing a mask; this is not a physical mask people carry on their faces but a metaphor for hiding one’s true self from the public. The first stanza second line there is the quote, “It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,” which really means the mask, as the it, is reforming ourselves into something we may be hiding and reshaping for an outsider's perspective on us. The connection between this idea that Dunbar is expressing and the archetype method is that they both convey an inner message that is within human nature. Everyone feels the need to be something they are not to be accepted. But within acceptance is a controversial