The theater could not adopt a better symbol, since the mask is the ideal complement for an actor who knows that the role he is playing is not really his.

Perhaps the people who best knew how to interpret the role of the mask in everyday life, was the Greek, since its playwrights were very aware of the sense of concealment and metamorphosis that it represented at a social level and possibly, thousands of years in advance, who discover the foundations of modern psychology.

Very clever, too, the Chinese early introduced it into its symbolism, giving it that mysterious and personality-devouring character that writer Robert Louis Stevenson used to carve out one of the greatest villains of Horror Literature: Mr. Hyde.

Mr. Hyde and the Tao Tieh or Mask of the Ogre of Chinese symbolism, perfectly represent the kind of monster we can become, when unable to contain the residual impulses of our reptilian heritage, we try to become someone who we are not.

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