Controlling Our Fences Analysis

Troy cheats on his wife, Rose, in Fences by August Wilson. Throughout the play, Troy and Rose go through obstacles created by Troy cheating on Rose and the problems faced by African Americans during the 1940s. Unnecessary boundaries, such as those created by Troy’s ethnicity, dishonesty, and inability to be loved destroyed his quality of life, and therefore his will to live. Examples of lack of honesty, loss of love, and hatred show and enhance Wilson’s theme that ethnicity, dishonesty, and inability to be loved can destroy one’s will to live. The author conveyed the truth that unnecessary boundaries can lead to problems that eat away at one’s quality of life by using examples of boundaries created by hatred, lack of honesty, and loss of love.

When it comes to globalization, everyone may have a different vision of it’s outcome. For Marcelo Gleiser, the author of “Globalization: Two visions of the Future of Humanity”, a completely globalized world may result in a dystopia. In contrast, Jeffrey Wasserstrom, the author of “A Mickey Mouse Approach to Globalization” and Tanveer Ali, the creator of “The Subway Falafel Sandwich and the Americanization of Ethnic Food” may think of globalization as other cultures sharing each other’s components to interact on a new level and spurring a more “open-minded” (Ali 27) individual.

Lives are lead with anxiety over certain issues and with apprehension towards certain events. This play, Fences written by the playwright August Wilson deals with the progression of a family through the struggles of oppression and the inability to obtain the American Dream. The characters in the play develop throughout the story and can be viewed or interpreted in many different ways, but one man remains constant during the play and that is Troy. Due to certain events that transpired as he was growing up, Troy is shaped into a very stubborn yet proud man. To be a man who was black and proud ran the risk of getting destroyed, both physically and mentally. The world of the 1950s and 60s was rapidly changing and

Pat Mora’s “Fences” deals with the timely issues of class division and privilege. She begins her poem on a positive note, saying “Mouths full of laughter,” which creates a safe and harmless tone; in the next line, Mora uses the Spanish word ‘turistas’ (tourist in English) to indicate possibly the ethnicity of the speaker. It is not until the last few lines of the poem, however, when the reader can also detect the class and likely status of the speaker, when the speaker’s mother says, “It’s their beach,” after seeing the speaker’s younger sister running across the sand where the affluent tourists are, thus opening the door for a Marxist reading of the poem. And at only 19 lines, “Fences” is a relatively short poem, but Mora’s use of

Historically, societies across the world confine women to the home—from the cult of domesticity that dominated American thought in the twentieth century to the stifling influence of the traditional economy on women in Africa—females typically submit to their husbands in marriage to conform to social standards. However, regional differences arose, and women developed unique identities in different parts of the world, wielding special influence in some cultures, but remaining imprisoned in the home in others. Fences, by August Wilson, All My

American culture was built on the idea of progress. Our society has focused on creating new technology, advancing the current systems, and these forces thrust the world towards globality, a world where countries are increasingly interconnected. To be clear, globalization isn’t a new phenomenon, but the technological advances of the postmodern era accelerated the path to globality, a world in which our current ideas of national borders are significantly different, much more fluid. Economics is just one facet of globalization, but unmistakable in the chosen image. Economic globalization refers to the complex system that our

Went to his boss, asking why there were African Americans working there. He asks a lot of questions.

Wilson has drawn from his experiences as a young black American to write the play entitled Fences. Fences describes the plight of black America; to escalate their standing in society from historic slavery to successful self sustaining through their own efforts and skills. “Significant for the playwright is the connection between the unique values and traditions of African American culture and the ability of its characters to overcome their social and psychological confinement” (Over 1). This plays explores the opportunities won and lost by black Americans as demonstrated by its main character, Troy Maxson.

One message Fences addressed was the slight shift in spirituality that was taking place among African Americans. Switching from the belief that because you were black, certain doors will always be closed to you, to the idea that although you were black, and will face obstacles because of it, there were dreams and opportunities you now felt you could peruse. The play represented this dichotomy in the form of Troy and his son, Cory. Troy represented the old mindset, that because you were black you couldn’t strive to reach or be certain things because this country wouldn’t allow it. This was displayed in act one when Troy talks about not being able to get promoted and his failed baseball career. Troy had everything it took to play in the Major

Most the United States citizens believe that as they try and work hard, someday it is possible to achieve their goals and succeed. The phrase “American Dream” first appealed during the Great Depression era and has played a role in daily American’s lives since 1931, when James Truslow Adams first time quoted in his novel, The Epic of America. James illustrates that “dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.” This dream become the aspiration for all American and as time passes it translates into the belief of become rich and earn happiness. However, the reality is very different from the American Dream due to the racisms, social class and gender

“Now we’re in some deep ****,” -A man in a very tense situation. Just like the life of someone who would say this August Wilson's, Fences is cold and brittle with tension. In this book we follow the life of african american father, Troy Maxon, as he and his family do their best to maintain a relationship with Troy. Slowly we learn more about Troy and his rock hard opinions about the world making it hard for those into his life to compromise with him which will slowly divide them further apart from each other.The author throughout the story uses the narrative element of conflict to create tension between the characters. Some of the most palpable of these events would be, troy taking advantage of his brother, his fight with his son, and last the argument between Troy and his wife rose.

It is clear to see that Troy and Torvald are very similar characters. Troy is the main character of the play Fences and Torvold is a secondary character from A Doll’s House. In both of the plays in the beginning it is hard not to believe that both men are good husbands and loyal men who are looking out for their families. It turns out to be quite the opposite situation. For the reason that Troy end up cheating on his wife and Torvold treated his wife like a Doll by manipulating her to do things for his fantasy’s. Both husbands fail in every shape and form to carry out the role of a good decent person and husband. Both wives are miserable and have no lives to live of their own.

As we know that, “Symbolism is a literary deice in which an object, event, or action is used to suggest a meaning beyond its literal meaning” (p.1801). In the play night Mother, by Marsha Norman used the symbol of “bus” to compare Jessie life; she feel herself as if no progress in life after the age fifty years. Therefore, she compares herself with such a “Bus” which will reach in same place even after fifty years. So, ‘Bus’ symbolizes the lack of progress, sense of hopelessness in life.

Many historians and sociologists have identified a transformation in the economic processes of the world and society in recent times. There has been an extensive increase in developments in technology and the economy as a whole in the twentieth century. Globalization has been recognized as a new age in which the world has developed into what Giddens identifies to be a “single social system” (Anthony Giddens: 1993 ‘Sociology’ pg 528), due to the rise of interdependence of various countries on one another, therefore affecting practically everyone within society.

In view of Thomas Friedman’s work “It’s a flat world, after all”, the entire planet is turning into a global village due to a rapid growth of information technology. There are 10 major contributors, which were also named “flateners” by Friedman, that made the playing field level. Undoubtedly, current sophistication in technology has provided us great access to internet, a virtual platform where people are capable of communicating, sharing knowledge, or performing online activities. Globalization appears to have collapsed the concerns of space and time by outsourcing cheap labor from another continent to undertake the same task but with equal or better performance. To some extent, Friedman has brought about an