It is known that children laugh more than adults. Why is that? They do not have a car to drive, money to spend, or people to see. However, what they do have is family to spend time with and follow. In addition, director Daniel Petrie portrayals the theme of it doesn’t matter how much money you have, if you don’t have the support of your own family you won’t be happy in the 1961 version of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun better than Kenny Leon in his 2008’s version.…
Many people have dreams that they want to accomplish. In A Raisin in the Sun, characters have a goal. Walter’s passion is to own a liquor store because he wants to be an entrepreneur. Beneatha’s dream is to become a doctor to help cure people. Mama pursues her dream of having a garden and a house. Each person’s aspiration is important to them. Thesis…
The play Raisin in the Sun is set in Chicago during the 1960s. This play focuses in on a lower-middle class family who has recently lost the man of the house. While the family overcomes how to spend the insurance money it becomes clear that the three main female characters have major differences due to the ways they were raised in their generations. The women often butt heads on different topics like what duties women have in the house and in society. Each generation changes slowly but eventually the differences in them are very clear because of the evolution of duties of women.…
In this play A Raisin in the Sun, shows a lot of gender difference and by being a female or a male they are to act and do things a certain way. Walter is the only male adult in the house. He is a strong hearted man who believes that everything he wants to do should be supported by his wife, sister and mother, but the way he acts just makes them not want to support him. For example, Walter has this idea of going into business to build up his own liquor store with the money his mother is getting from the insurance company. His wife think it is not a good idea and so does his mother. Walter feels “A man needs for a woman to back him up…” He also shows that he should be supported no matter what by saying “That is what is wrong with the colored…
Americans have various rights, that is, anything in accordance to what is acceptable, proper, or just. Everyone knows their right to bear arms, own property, or obtain a fair and speedy trial. These rights are often taken advantage of, as not all Americans have always shared these rights. Numerous brave, persistent, and determined men and women have fought for African Americans to live in equality. Two lawyers, despite the limited support from their community, fought to show how we must treat everyone with respect, no matter their race.…
This article helped explain some of the scenes better and did a good job summarizing the play. I think she pointed out some important details in the evidence the women find and that helped explain some of the symbolism better. She shows a strong distinction between the two worlds of men and women which is the reason behind the difference in their approaches to the case. She points out that understanding the relationships and people is very important. Karen included many quotes from the play to support her opinions which were very close to mine so this article was very helpful. She goes through the entire play which is more than needed but while reading through I could find the most important details she points out to help with my paper.…
While many will agree that Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is critically acclaimed to be one of the most entertaining and well-liked pieces that he has written, there tends to be a discrepancy over how the characters in the play are portrayed when it comes to the importance of gender roles. After reading James C Bulman’s article over the Globe’s more recent performance of Twelfth Night and Shakespeare’s original written version, I realized that there are many ways that this famous piece has been portrayed and each has its own pros and cons.…
Women play many roles in the societies of today and those of past. They have been gatherers and they have been homemakers. These days they wear the new mask of the conformity of the business world. The suits hide their figures and their femininity is stripped away. This stripping did not begin in this decade nor the one before it and certainly not the one before that. This subject began long before then; women's roles have always been confused and toyed with in our patriarchal societies. This essay will explore the types of female roles presented in The Crucible, Macbeth, and An Inspector Calls.…
Gender roles set a standard for how every person is supposed to behave according to their sex. These expectations are based on stereotypical traits and there are often consequences for not following the norms. Shakespeare’s Macbeth gives evidence of how men and women were perceived during the Elizabethan era and what would happen if they did not conform to those roles. Most of the characters’ actions in the play are influenced by how strict the expectations are. Society’s definitions of masculinity and femininity force the characters to conform to certain behaviors based on their gender, which leads some to reject or criticize their given role.…
Gender roles are central issues within the musicals The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939) and Hairspray (Adam Shankman, 2007). The differences between the representation of males and females may, in part, be as a result of the shifting ideologies in the USA in two different historical periods.…
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Mcluskie rightly points out that the play’s sexism can be undermined through production choices, but her essay essentially argues that, in order to retain its grasp on Shakespeare’s interpretations of universal truths about human nature, it must continue to reinforce that…
The play Hamlet written by the famous William Shakespeare brings to the surface numerous themes along with subject matters. In reading this play one major issue can be drawn from the well thought out verses written throughout the play: the issue concerning Hamlet’s views and treatment of women. Shakespeare’s Hamlet encompases several verses on which women are portrayed as common, perversely whorish and utterly disloyal human beings.…
Caryl Churchill’s play, Top Girls, has many social, political and cultural observations about modern women throughout the centuries. It was written in 1982 and in this, Churchill presents women from both modern and historical periods who seem to have been successful in one way or another. During the eighties, feminism has an extremely negative effect on society in that the strong, modern business woman were problematic for the male dominated world; perhaps, Churchill uses the theme of feminism to a great extent in this play as the backbone which helps shape many of the characters? What is feminism? Is it to be accepted in a male-dominated world or is it to see oneself as a successful woman based solely on one’s merits? Although Top Girls has been used to represent feminist ideals by some, it is also a theatrical presentation that describes the division within the different types of women in the play and their psychological insecurities. This essay will discuss how Churchill achieves the portrayal of these women through ‘new’ theatrical language and through the personalities of the characters, all of whom are women.…
The main topic of this play concerns the role of the women in a conventional society, how oppressed they are and forced to follow a track that constrains. They are forbidden from expressing themselves; Ibsen shows that for some women those rules and values are fatal.…