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Compare And Contrast Fences And Death Of A Salesman

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The play Fences by August Wilson is often considered the African-American counterpart to the great play, The Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. This leads to many comparisons between the two main characters Willy Loman and Troy Maxson. The scene chosen by our group leads to one of the main differences between Willy and Troy; in the scene chosen Troy is losing his grip on reality and his family, more specifically his athletic son, the main difference between these characters is that Troy knows what is happening, he knows he has lost the respect of his son and starts to realize he has lost the fleeting grip on reality he had in the first place. In order to understand more the performance of the play the group read into certain adaptations of the play with which we discerned the best way for us to stage and perform the play with the limited time and resources we have. This chosen way of performing the play allowed us to gain the maximum impact for our short performance while still trying to capture the entire essence of the play. …show more content…

This moment didn't necessarily take you to a place in time because this situation or scenario permeates through time. This revelation about how fathers want better for their sons even if it means they lose their relationships with them. It shows how children want to become their best self to please their parents. The problem is the children want to be better for their parents in a different way than their parents agree with and it causes them to clash in petty ways hurting their relation in only because there was a misunderstanding of their

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In the play “Fences”, written in 1957 by August Wilson annotates how Troy’s childhood experiences affected his life and put a strain on his relationship with family and friends. Troy’s enormous amount of pride, flaw of judgment, and malicious actions lead to his shortcomings and resulted into him becoming a tragic hero. In the story, Troy had a lot of flaws in his character throughout the play. As Troy was growing up he never had the proper guidance, so he had to take care of himself the best way he could.

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In the play Fences by August Wilson, Troy Maxson presents as the protagonist. He is an unsympathetic character who seems to hurt all those around him with his aggressive persona. Troy is a selfish man, with a one sided perception on life which made him unable to accept the choices others made. Due to his upbringing, Troy is unable to show love in a normal fashion. Instead, he blocks his family out by using a harsh exterior, emotionally excluding himself from his underlying love.

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The hardships that people face, coming from racial and gender injustice, can sometimes affect not just those directly concerned, but their families as well. These injustices, such as the treatment to Troy in Fences during his younger years, change the ways he acts to his sons and the rest of the characters and is the source of much of the conflict they face. Many of the conflicts in the play arise because the characters disagree with the way they see the past and what they want to do in their respective futures. For example, Troy and Cory see Cory's future differently because of the ways they have been treated in their pasts.

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Misunderstood and Not Happy Both men in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and Fences by August Wilson had several different ways they reacted to women. I believe that both stories were written from a man's perspective and would have played out different if the authors were women. In a way, both relationships were toxic. Although they didn’t seem to be on the surface, both had problems that targeted the mental abuse of the wives. In the 1940’s and 1950’s women weren’t treated highly or equally back those times.

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In the play “Fences” by August Wilson, Troy is first seen as a responsible husband who cares for his family. He makes the duty of being a “providing” husband his whole persona. Being the head of the household has made him sensitive to criticism and open-minded. He is egoistic, making others feel little and scared to question his rights for wrongdoing. His son and wife live more in the present than him.

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The play, Fences by August Wilson, is about Troy Maxson and his struggling family relationships. A recurring idea throughout the story is the construction of a fence around Troy's home. Troy's fence could symbolize two things, Troy is trying to protect his family from the outside world, or Troy is isolating himself from his own family. As the construction of the fence progresses, the more severely damaged Troy's relationships become. In this play, the underlying message is that, despite the fact that fences can both protect and isolate, Troy’s fence isolates him from his family rather than to protect his family.

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Chapter 6 Article 2: Congress vs. the States on Guns Chapter six of the textbook, Constitutional Law and the Criminal Justice System by J. Scott Harr, Karen M. Hess, Christine Orthmann, and Jonathon Kingsbury, goes into extensive detail on the seconded amendment of the United States Constitution. To briefly sum up, the seconded amendment states that “a well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed" (Harr, Hess, Orthmann, & Kingsbury, 2015, p. 167). Pursuing this further, there has been a considerable amount of debate throughout the years on what ‘the right to bear Arms’ really implies for American citizens today. Due to the confusion, many states have had to appear in

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In August Wilson’s playwright Fences, the narrator portrays racism in a social system, in the workplace, and in sports, which ultimately affects Troy’s aspirations. Troy Maxson is constantly facing the racism that is engraved into the rules of racial hierarchy –– fair and unfair, spoken and unspoken. Troy suffers many years of racism when he plays in the Negro major Baseball League; therefore he decides to protect Cory from ever experiencing those blockades in his drive for success. In the end, although Troy is always driving to obtain agency, Troy always succumbs to the rules of racism because those racist ideologies are too hard to overcome. Throughout the play, Troy is perpetually confronting the racist social system that displays unspoken

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