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Beneatha In A Raisin In The Sun

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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 …show more content…

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

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Beneatha is a confident person and she wants to figure out and explore who she is. While arguing with Mama and Ruth about marriage and her future, Beneatha says, “I am going to be a doctor and everybody around here better understand that!” (50). During the argument Beneatha is very assertive of her beliefs and what she wants to do. She is very adamant that she wants to be a doctor

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Every individual symbol has its own unique and distinct traits that have its resemblance to different aspects of life. In Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin In The Sun, many symbols and themes were introduced which held a significant meaning and value to the play. One key symbol that was significant in this play was Beneatha’s hair, which represented many aspects of the Youngers day to day life, especially of Beneatha’s whose character trait and personality developed alongside this symbol throughout the play. One way Beneatha’s hair represents Beneatha in this play is how it contains aspects such as assimilation and change, which correspond to Beneatha’s personality in the beginning of the book very well. The scene that represents this begins with the Youngers cleaning their apartment and doing

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He respect his mother and father, but mostly fear his father. Even though he fears his dad, he still tries to protect his mom from his dad when he tries to hurt her. When his dad was about to hurt her, he forgot all his fear and tries to stop his dad. For Beneatha, She always tries to do new things everyday and she was the only promising person for her future in her family. But because she was a colored person, she would have a rough time through her life to become a doctor.

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