August Wilson's Fences-Words Shape Our World
Words Shape Our World
Taking a good look at life experiences, one could come up with over a thousand reasons to build fences around their little world. While some people build physical walls, others build with words. A critical analysis of August Wilsons 1987 play called “Fences” shows a theme of the average American dream, the damaging impact of segregation and other forms of racism, and when freedom comes with responsibility.
Firstly, envisioning a good life is the birth right of an American, but in actualizing it lays the dream of an average American. Koprince Susan (2006) a credible critic of Fences, compares the drama to baseball game. States that it has become the great store house of ideals, the symbol of everything great in America. Right before the evolution of …show more content…
According to Wessling Joseph’s, critic of August Wilson’s drama called Fences (1999), Wilson views the drama as a meta-comedy, arguing that just few comedies have sad endings. Although, it is very clear that the life of the protagonist was full of melancholy, it is pertinent to trace the cause of this sorrow back to the bitter experience Troy had in his younger age, which came from the stronghold of national racial prejudice. Wessling added African Americans as humanity need forgiveness and grace to break forth through the great barrier of racial discrimination. This forgiveness and grace is the spirit of true comedy as displayed in Fences. Wessling added that the challenges of reality for African Americans, which is that of unavoidable prejudice in the America, especially the traces of pain, alienation, for heart aches and deaths. But this can be overcome, with fences of forgiveness, grace and multigenerational insight in which our sense of struggle is more equal to an infusion of
Taking a good look at life experiences, one could come up with over a thousand reasons to build fences around their little world. While some people build physical walls, others build with words. A critical analysis of August Wilsons 1987 play called “Fences” shows a theme of the average American dream, the damaging impact of segregation and other forms of racism, and when freedom comes with responsibility.
Firstly, envisioning a good life is the birth right of an American, but in actualizing it lays the dream of an average American. Koprince Susan (2006) a credible critic of Fences, compares the drama to baseball game. States that it has become the great store house of ideals, the symbol of everything great in America. Right before the evolution of …show more content…
According to Wessling Joseph’s, critic of August Wilson’s drama called Fences (1999), Wilson views the drama as a meta-comedy, arguing that just few comedies have sad endings. Although, it is very clear that the life of the protagonist was full of melancholy, it is pertinent to trace the cause of this sorrow back to the bitter experience Troy had in his younger age, which came from the stronghold of national racial prejudice. Wessling added African Americans as humanity need forgiveness and grace to break forth through the great barrier of racial discrimination. This forgiveness and grace is the spirit of true comedy as displayed in Fences. Wessling added that the challenges of reality for African Americans, which is that of unavoidable prejudice in the America, especially the traces of pain, alienation, for heart aches and deaths. But this can be overcome, with fences of forgiveness, grace and multigenerational insight in which our sense of struggle is more equal to an infusion of