Beneatha In A Raisin In The Sun

Black women are the most disrespected under-represented unequal beings in America nearly the world. A lot of amazing things are created by women in general but specifically women of color. Women of color have always had a place in history whether they were there for support or on the front lines to disagree would be an insult. Women have always had it hard since as long as they’re not gone has been a community with a male leader. Women are thought to be incapable of leading, authority or showing assertiveness. Stereotypes are the biggest downfall for women because they presume to make women look like housewives weak or unintelligent enough to speak up or not brave enough to sit at a table full of man and not fall behind. While women are thought

Beneatha was a young African American girl who wanted to go to college and started off as a somewhat standoffish character not wanting to accept her fate as being in the ghetto. Beneatha was portrayed correctly as a black woman. Beneatha was independent strong-willed strong-minded opinionated and was not easily persuaded. Beneatha was headstrong in how she felt she should be represented and presented towards man of all shades. Beneatha couldn't come to find herself in a relationship with a man who not her equal instance and instead of hold her tongue she let it be known and found someone who matched her. She decided to release her mask of arrogance and instead accepted life with a more positive look on life. While Lorraine Character Beneatha shifted towards the positive Angelina Weld Grimke character Rachel had the opposite effect in fact. In the play Rachel the young woman Rachel started off with a positive outlook on life and what it means to her and wanted the best it had to offer, This story was told from a different standpoint of the black women. In Rachel story, she is an optimistic woman only wanting to do what a woman is meant to do not going outside her realm of being comfortable but instead wants to live a happily ever after and have children. Rachel at an early age knew that he wanted kids but she knows the risks that came with kids outside of the norm. Rachel lived I a time period where racism was thick in the community and it took her father and brother being killed for her to realize the reality of the situation they were in. After half her family was murdered she decided she wouldn't have kids or find love out of fear of her loved ones getting hurt again. Both Women have a story to tell but from two sides of view one who had a negative but persistent look out on life that