TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY A Raisin in the Sun: The Pursuit of Afro- American Dream A Thesis Submitted to the Department of English‚ Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences‚ Ratna Rajya Laxmi Campus‚ Tribhuvan University‚ in the Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in English By Tanka Prasad Paudel Roll No.: 294/ 063 T. U. Registration No: 6-2-2-1201-2001 March 2011 Paudel i Tribhuvan University Ratna Rajya Laxmi Campus Department of English Exhibition
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A Raisin in the Sun vs. The Glass Menagerie American is known around the world as the land of opportunity‚ a place where you can follow your dreams. No matter how selfish or farfetched ones dream may be‚ their goal will always be available. Whether it be the pursuit of the woman of your dreams‚ like that of Jay Gatsby‚ or the hunt for something pure and real‚ like Holden Caulfield. A Raisin in the Sun‚ by Lorraine Hansberry‚ and The Glass Menagerie‚ by Tennessee Williams‚ exhibit the various
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of dramas convey one’s emotion and thought through a visual effect. The key elements of the nature of drama are essential to understanding and interpreting a play or any type of drama. The dramatic art within “Time Flies” by David Ives and “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry are perfect examples of the main points of the nature of drama. To understand the elements of soliloquy and asides‚ the dramatical difference in stories and plays‚ and the effect of the audience against the actors is to
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Everyone has dreams of their own. In the play “A raisin in the Sun” various topics were included such as race‚ pride‚ family and more. All the main characters in this play seemed to have big dreams of their own. This play was inspired by Langston Hughes‚ an American poet. He wrote the poem “Harlem”‚ which inspired Lorraine Hansberry along with her own personal life experiences to write this play. There are five family members living in a small‚ cramped space and share a bathroom with two other families
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Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun themes‚ symbols‚ and characters can be compared. Both A Raisin in the Sun and Julius Caesar were written for the stage; therefore their characters become more obvious and more thoroughly portrayed than in a book‚ for example. Even though‚ these works were written by far different authors and in different centuries their similarities and differences are evident. In both A Raisin in the Sun and Julius Caesar themes‚ symbols‚ and character
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Exquisite examples yielding this topic of class discrepancies can be found in a renowned play by Lorraine Hansberry entitled‚ "A Raisin in the Sun"; the first play written by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway‚ along with Hansberry being the first African American to be honored with the New York Drama Critics Circle Award (Hansberry 347). The play tells the story of the
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Langston Hughes and A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry‚ the theme is: Dreams may develop‚ transform‚ or be destroyed‚ without the dreamer having any control. Everybody in the Younger family had a dream and their dreams are reflected in each of the verses in “Harlem.” Lorraine Hansberry conveys the theme through character development throughout the play. Langston Hughes conveys the theme using descriptive smells and sights to describe the themes. In A Raisin in a Sun‚ the main character‚ Mama
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Hughes poem‚ a dream deferred describes this situation. In Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun‚ the Younger family each have dreams that they want to fulfill but is disrupted because of family selfishness and family issues. Each character had different dreams of their own. Big Walter‚ Walter Lee‚ and Mama Younger and the effects of their dreams on the family’s morale. Hughes uses a metaphor of a raisin to describe neglected hopes and dreams‚ which in turn is reflected in Hansberry’s exanple
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African-American stereotypes have evolved during the last 400 years‚ beginning with slave trade around the mid-fifteenth century. Slave traders targeted and captured blacks because they believed they were creatures without souls intended for hard labor and intense physical work. It was common for white colonists‚ settlers and slave traders to spread myths and misconceptions to induce even more fear and hatred amongst them. During slavery‚ images‚ myths and stereotypes of blacks continued to hinder
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A Raisin in the Sun: Act One Journal Aaron Garfinkle 12 August 2014 English 9 In act one of Raisin in the Sun‚ we learn many of the dreams that the characters in the play have‚ that all have one thing in common‚ the need of money. These dreams combined with the fact that the family has recently come into possession of ten-thousand dollars provides a fantastic opportunity for author Lorraine Hansberry to foreshadow that greed will tear this family apart. Each character is vastly different from
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