Essay about Fiddler on the Roof

The musical is based off of the play Spring Awakening written by Frank Wedekind in the late 1800’s. At the time, it was written for the purpose of commenting on how German culture revolved around the purpose of oppressing young teenagers’ sexual desire and shaming those who were curious about sexuality. The controversial and, at the time, problematic themes were meant to act as a wake up call to those who forced ignorance of sexual instruction on their children. This is the reason for the significance of the setting, at the time Germany was focused on preventing children from becoming educated on sex. As the characters grew up, this setting was a catalyst for the tragic events that occurred in the wake of the children being poorly informed on sex, pregnancy, and the cause of their sexual desires. While the musical adapted from the original play does not contain the same social commentary, the harshness of the message is still evident.

In the early twentieth century, Fania, Bessie, and Masha, the older children of the Smolinski family are unable to find work to support their hungry, weak family.The youngest daughter in the Smolinski family is named Sara and will go outside and make some money by selling herring when Mrs. Molinski loses hope for the family 's financial situation:"I was about ten years old then. But from always it was heavy on my heart the worries for the house as if I was mother. I knew that the landlord came that morning hollering for the rent," (P.1). Reb Smolinsky is the girls’ father. Reb is also out of work and as a poor Jewish man, spends his days reading holy books and living off of what little money his own children make. Eventually the older daughters will find work. Mrs. Smolinski is then able to rent a second room. The family is very excited when Bessie announces that she and a man named Berel Berenstein had fallen in love. Bessie invites him to dinner at her home. Reb finds out about his daughter’s relationship with Berel and even that Berel was willing to marry her. Despite the joy and enthusiasm expressed by the rest of the family, doesn’t decide to congratulate her, but rather that because of the family’s financial situation, Berel must also pay the full cost of the wedding. Reb also demands that Berel set him up a business. After that, Berel becomes infuriated and leaves. After reading this I couldn’t help but wonder, one

The short folktale The Man Who Danced with the Rusalky tells the story of a man who dances with rusalky after being told not to and is punished accordingly. By analyzing the plot, the symbols, and characters in the story, one can see how the tale, while brief, argues for several codes of behaviour and beliefs.

When Tevye hears that Chava wants to marry Viedka, he is very angered. Tevye is a very religious man and to allow his daughter to be married to a Non-Jewish man is out of the question. In the movie, when he is debating to allow the marriage or not, he imagines a big dance. At first Chava is a young child and with Tevye, but she later grows up and starts dancing with the fiddler. Of course, this is okay because the fiddler is Tevye’s happy place, but Chava can’t leave the happy place, which is what she does. She leaves him to go with Viedka, which represents her leaving his “happiness.” This is not acceptable to Tevye so he forbids her to ever see him, therefore she must disobey.

The father, Tevye, has five daughter - three of whom will get married throughout the play. Tevye and Golde’s third daughter, Chava falls in love with Fyedka, a Russian, and is ordered to,“...never see him again.” (Stein) As, “...the great book says,” (Stein) it is against Jewish tradition to marry outside of the faith. But not only is he Russian, he is not a Jew and the bending of tradition is something that Tevye cannot bring himself to do. After Chava and Fyedka elope and her family disowns her. From that point on, Chava is shunned into silence by her family. Tevye does not acknowledge Chava and Fyedka until the very end, even then only briefly, to wish that, “God be with…,” (Stein) them. His final statement shows that he still loves and cares for his daughter, but he does not agree with her decision to marry outside of the

In the third stanza (380) it says, “the hand that held my wrist/ every step you missed my right ear scraped a buckle” this can be interpreted as the father was abusive, because he was holding the young boy by his wrist instead of his hands. It seemed that the father was trying to hit him with a belt and missed and instead it his ear. On the other hand, I seen it as the child was being held with love and because of the dance and the different heights of the father and son he had to hold him by the wrist, the young boy height would lead to the reason why his ear will scrap on the father’s belt when he missed a

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” - Atticus Finch. This is one of many important quote in this book. Therefore, in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, it is indisputable that Scout's perspective on the world changes and she matures from influences from others. This idea is developed through Atticus Finch by demonstrating how to be humble, Arthur Radley (Boo) teaching her to learn about people before you judge them. While Miss Dubose explains the act of courage.

English essay on To Kill a Mockingbird In 'To Kill a Mockingbird' Atticus finch is presented as a respectable well-known man. Before Atticus Finch there was a customary tradition at the Finch's landing, which has been in place since Simon Finch made it his home and died there. The customary tradition was ' the men in the family remained on Finch's landing and made their living from cotton'. In the twentieth century Atticus Finch went to Montgomery to read law and John Hale Finch, Atticus' younger brother studied medicine in Boston.

Fiddler on the Roof is a play taking place during the small Russian town of Anatevka. The circumstance is early twentieth century, when Jewish towns are often targeted by Russian demonstrations. Anatevka is resided almost entirely by Jews. The townspeople uphold the tradition: young girls are match-maked and married off to men, often without choice. The play shows the resistance of Reb Tevye’s three daughters to the tradition. It also shows the internal struggle of the father in his decision between his beliefs and his daughters’ happiness.

Lizzie frequented the theater and would sing the songs from the current musicals to Martha and her sisters, but it wasn’t until middle childhood that Martha experienced going to the theater herself. Martha’s first experience with theater was a Punch and Judy show that her Father took her and her sister to when their family was on holiday in Atlantic City. As the curtains parted Martha saw another world, one created out of nothing and this sparked Martha’s love for theatrics, although Martha wouldn’t discover her true passion, which is dance until later in life. At this time Martha had no exposure to dance as an art form, only as a means of entertainment. It was through this exposure to the theater at a young age and the dramatic play in

First, Tevye and his family were preparing a meal for celebrating Sabbath day, while Yente, matchmaker, came in with news of a wealthy butcher, Lazar Wolf, that wants to marry his eldest daughter, Tzeitel. Next, Tevye agrees with it, but Tzeitel does not want to marry Lazar Wolf because she is in love with Motel, which is her friend from her childhood. Then, Motel came back and told Tevye that he is in love with Tzeitel and that they already gave a pledge to marry each other. Tevye was impressed with what Motel had said and agreed Motel and Tzeitel’s marriage. A few months later, Perchik, a radical student, tells Hodel, Tevye’s second-oldest daughter, that he need to return to Kiev and he proposes a marriage. When Perchik left, there were rumors

This film begins with a poor Jewish family located in rural Anatevka Russia in 1905. Tevye, the main character and narrator of the film lives with his wife and five daughters. The beginning of the film begins with a song explaining the Jewish culture and traditions. During this time it was a Jewish tradition and practice for a matchmaker to choose husbands for Tevye’s daughters, however, his daughters had a better idea of how they will be matched with their suitors. While three of Tevye’s daughters fall in love with men that is not whom their father, or matchmaker would hand pick.

The river where the women did their laundry was simple but was amazing at the same time. The second part was when the protagonist was singing as the music in the background (there was a guy in the background pretending to play a guitar) playing to the tune of the music was an amazing. It set this atmosphere and it show how the she was feeling now. In this production, I can relate to the part that the protagonist is struggle with her marriage because her marriage was arrange and she was not in love with her husband. In the arrange marriage part I can related to the character since during my generation many of my families and friends were arrange with their spouse too. It is a struggle to love someone when the person had only been introduce once and maybe seen each other for only a couple of weeks then all suddenly had to be marry to that person. With all this confusion, the women had to honor her family by staying in a marriage that is fill with emptiness and unhappy if the women do not learn to love her husband. Which I have found that this play is very sad and tragic that during that time women had no saying in her happiness or the choice to choose

When the reader is first introduced to Tatyana at the party that Eugene Onegin (the “hero” of the story) and Vladimir Lensky (a young poet who is in love with Tatyana’s younger sister, Olga), the narrator goes into explaining how Tatyana was an odd sort of girl, who was not in to childish games:

An imperative factor of any show, a cast of characters sets the musical’s tone, and pushes it forward. Acting as the leading man, Tevye offers audiences a humorous, persevering, lovable character, whose life struggles can perfectly resonate with those of working parents. Tevye’s wife, Golde, diligently serves her family, and places their welfare above her own. Other members of Tevye’s family include his five daughters, three of which, Tzeitel, Hodel and Chava, create many problems for their father concerning marriage customs. Playing the love interests of Tevye’s three daughters, Motel,