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Compare And Contrast Fences By Troy Morrison

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“Fences,” a play written in 1986 by American playwright August Wilson, set in the 1950’s in Pittsburgh,PA highlights the aftermaths of slavery as well as legalized discrimination and African American lives. The protagonist Troy Maxson (Father) spends his time telling his son Cory Maxson how to spend his future because Troy’s life was not up to his expectations due to misfortunes and mistakes made by him and not being able to play in the Major Leagues, but now works as a garbage collector. Troy prohibits Cory from playing Football and going off to college. Their relationships begins to deteriorate as he starts interfering more into his life. This play written by August Wilson, was a powerful and inspirational play and if a movie was ever made, …show more content…

Also, the play is based in the backyard, but in the movie, the viewers see different aspects and it doesn’t all takes place in the backyard of the Maxson household. The movie goes in depth with how African Americans lived in the time of 1950s and what they had to deal with in life. Troy Maxson was a guy who had high dreams to play on the Major League baseball team, but his life was suddenly destroyed when he went jail due to the mistakes made in life and now he is a garbage collector, “All I want them to do is change job description. Give everyday a chance to drive the truck.” Troy is ticked off about the racial inequality going on at his job as a garbage collector. The white men all get to drive the trucks, while the black men have to collect and dump the trash in the back. In the movie, the viewer can see the emotions and frustration that is feeling on how his life is going during the times of segregation. Viola Davis, who played Rose portrayed the character as a godly loving mother, who loved her family and stood by her husband and son, “Why don’t you let the boy go ahead and play football Troy? Ain’t no harm in that. He’s just trying to be like you with the sports.” Rose sets out her motherly views to convince her husband Troy not hold their son

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August Wilson’s play Fences was written in 1983. Fences is the sixth play in Wilson’s Pittsburgh cycle. Pittsburgh is important because it represents a better life for blacks; it provides them with jobs and helped them to escape the poverty and racism of the south after the civil war. It represents promises and promises that were broken. I feel like Fences represents the struggles Troy and his family faced because of their complexion and their constant disappointments as black people.

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In the play, Fences by August Wilson, the underlying message is that giving up is not an option, especially not for African Americans, allowing them rise through the oppression. Wilson’s point was to show that black

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It isn’t surprising that he treats her like that and that she doesn’t do anything against it because the play was written during the 1980s. However, this shows the sexism that the play might want the reader to explore and interact with. The reader, indeed, is shocked by how Troy treats his wife, Rose, with such a carelessly manner and with a disrespect even greater than what his son showed to him later on in the play. Fences on its own, it is a play that evokes anger and disgust in today’s society. The way that Troy speaks to Rose and the way that he interacts with his son, Cory, is unacceptable in today’s society.

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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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This play was set in the 1950’s, an era when racism was indeed an issue. August Wilson used this play to show the struggles a black man had to endure while trying to make it in a white man’s world during this time. Troy Maxson was an African American who believes his

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In Fences the terrible side of Troy's childhood is appeared all through the play to bring light upon the individual battles of Troy and the results it has on his family. Troy is a man with passion, who needs to lead his family, yet Troy does not have the mentality to center his energies into a totally positive atmosphere; this outcome in Troy's family displays an understanding into the life and identity of Troy

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Fences is a good film/play of the authoritarian parenting style (pg. 31-32). Authoritarian parenting style is very common in African American family culture although many didn’t consider it to have positive outcomes for children. Troy’s father believed in disciplinary practices are hierarchical, and use forceful and harsh means to make Troy do what he wanted him to do. He also believed in corporal punishment and sometimes would shame him into compliance. Due to the abuse and mistreatment that Troy received from his father and the disappointment of never getting a chance to play in the Major Baseball League because he was a black man, lead to the him carrying around anger and bitterness.

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“Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason” (Abraham Heschel). That one’s own threat is simply their skin color. “Fences” by August Wilson is a play that depicts the struggles of a black man living in the 1950s, where racism was at peak. Wilson was inspired by the situation at Pittsburg, where he lived, that he wrote a play to depict the segregation from what he had seen, thus Fences was born. He showed how the African-Americans are trying to find their racial identity, their treatment, and how Troy and Wilson are alike.

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Troy chose to escape his reality by having an affair that gives him some laughs and good time every now and then. However, despite the flaws in Troy’s character, he was a providing family man who wants to insure a better life of his sons than the one he had. Based on the play’s time period, which took place at the 50’s, apparently the main problem of Troy Maxson’s character was racism against African Americans at the time that had prevented him from achieving his dreams. Throughout the play, Troy expresses his dissatisfaction in several scenes with the other characters.

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It additionallyconveys the emotional barrier that Troy puts between them. Furthermore, Troy ruins his marriageby cheating on his wife, Rose, by having an affair with another woman named Alberta. Howeverunlike Rose, who strives to build a fence around her family, Troy attempts to evade capture in thefence. He doesn't have the capacity to understand that Rose wants to keep the family close becausehe never truly had a close family. As a result, Troy ends up driving everybody away just like hisfather.

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The psychological effects of our childhood experiences can have an outsized impact on who we become later in life. The world in not a perfect place and people face obstacles throughout their lives. In the play Fences, written by August Wilson, there lives an African American family living in a largely segregated world in the 1950´s. Troy Maxson is the Father of Lyons. Lyons is Troy 's son from a previous relationship.

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The play describes the life of Troy Maxson a middle age Africa-American man who was raising his family in time of racism. Troy is married to Rose and the father of three children. Troy has two sons Lyons and Cory, and a daughter named Raynell. August Wilson describes the life of Troy as someone who feels he is being oppressed and how different the culture was when his was a child growing up compared to his children’s lives.

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Troy cheats on his extremely faithful wife with a younger woman and has a baby with her. Wilson seems to set the scene with Rose, Troy’s wife. Even through trials and tribulation with Troy, Rose stays with him. Wilson sets up Rose as almost the model wife of the time period. She is faithful, always has dinner ready, and is available for Troy’s nighttime pleasures when ever he pleases.

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Fences is a play written by the playwright August Wilson, who dedicated himself to writing plays capturing what it was like to be an African American in the United States during every decade of the 20th century. Fences was a play that was specifically written to provide an outlook into the lives of African Americans in America during the 1950s, during the process of demarginalization. Each character of the novel provides a unique perspective to capture different aspects of the “African American Experience” during this time period. In Fences, it was very important to August Wilson to truly capture “The African American Experience” and he was able to do so through the portrayal of the Maxson family, with his representation of African Americans during the 1950s in Fences, and with the multiple perspectives of African Americans captured

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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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