Props In The Armitage

The Armitages consider the black people as similar use as props. The black people’s identity is being stolen and used as props without having the understanding and struggle they have endured. This is portrayed through Georgina and Walter as well as Andrew at the cocktail party. Missy, Rose’s mother, uses the spoon as a hypnotizing and controlling implement that knocks a person down with three clicks of her spoon. The silver spoon is a significant object as it demonstrates the control she has over (usually) black people that are forced into this hypnosis without ever realizing its happening. This is portrayed as an economic benefit the white people have to make the black people feel powerless. Georgina, Walter, and Andrew have all been through
the same hypnosis and lobotomy performed by the couple which created them to be the white-acting, strange, and hopeless individuals they are. Through the duration of the cocktail party, Chris takes a flash picture of Andrew accidentally which causes him to snap into reality for a moment. He proceeds screaming and crying and repeatedly telling Chris, as if he was giving him a warning of some sort, to “Get Out”. Next to one of the most significant scenes in the movie occurs when Georgina and Chris talk upstairs. In mid-conversation Georgia begins to shed tears. Although nothing bad occurred in the scene, it was a sign of her actual self-coming out and trying to escape the life that she is living currently, similar to a plea for help. She is simply a black person that is not satisfied with the person they have come to be. The fake, civilized, and overly enthusiastic people that the black people have turned to shows the strong force put upon them to act this way to fit in.