Freedom In Gem Of The Ocean

Freedom is defined as the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. There are different forms of freedom, two of which are physical and mental freedom. People advocate the rights of both physical and mental freedom of others who can not. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Malala Yousafzai fought for physical freedom whereas John F. Kennedy fought for mental freedom. In order to be completely free, someone must posses both physical and mental freedom.

The definition of freedom is the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. In American we have three different types of freedom national, political, and individual. National freedom is the independence of a political state, the freedom from occupation or other foreign control. Political freedom is the right of citizens of a political state to participate

There is humanly no possible way to merely or easily define what “freedom” truthfully is, as every distinct person and each social order has opposing restrictions for what this belief is. Bureaucrats and social researchers, for example, have vastly diverse philosophies of what institutes freedom. This primeval belief has been ingrained into mankind since the beginning of time. Century after century mankind has fought in numerous wars for this concept of “Freedom”.

“Gem of the Ocean” the ninth play of a total of ten by August Wilson that is about the African-American life in the 20th Century and which main theme is the actual nature of freedom. This play takes us back to 1904 to the District of Pittsburgh, where African-Americans are allegedly free but continue to face systematic oppression. We see that as we are told how many of the characters remain employed by the tin mill but still remained in debt which continued to keep them down in the North just as slavery did in the South. The play was set in 1904 in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, when there was a massive migration of laborers from Eastern and Southern Europe and also from the American South regions to the Industrial Revolution’s centers of industry such as Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Detroit (Wilson, 2003).

August Wilson uses a woman named Aunt Ester as the main character in five of his ten paly in the Pittsburg cycle. “Gem of the ocean” is the first of the plays that we actually see Aunt Ester and she becomes more that just a voice the reader. “Gem of the Ocean” is a play depicting the life of newly freed slaves living in the Hill District of Pittsburg, centering on how one woman, Aunt Ester, helps people that are in trouble, either legally or spiritually. Aunt Ester is the main character in many of Wilson’s play. She is an older woman that is more like a spiral healer than just a resident of the town. She uses her life skills and teachings to help the residents of the town during times of disturbances in their lives. Aunt Ester is more than just a woman living her life; she takes great pride in helping others and is trying to pass the knowledge that she has gained throughout her life along. Her role and actions in Wilson’s plays are the backbone of what of what he is trying to portray to African American men and their loss of their heritage.

Iron is a powerful physical and metaphorical symbol throughout August Wilsons play Gem of the Ocean. It represents both a very real and imposing burden on the black population as well as a symbol of victory and a means to find an inner strength and break free from the oppression, as well as combat it. The symbol comes up in many different forms throughout the play, acting as a strong source of material.

Freedom to me is being able to learn from your mistakes. If I did not have freedom, I would have to do what the top officials tell me I have to do. They would tell me what books to read, what religion to study, and even what food to eat. I wouldn’t

Freedom is a word we all know; we all hear it ring in our ears, but what is freedom really? The dictionary definition is “the condition of being free of restraints”. We are all fettered by something whether it is a cell phone or bigger like an addiction; we all have something that makes us feel a little restrained at times. Other times however we get so caught up in wanting to do whatever we want that we don’t see that is not really freedom. Another definition of freedom from the dictionary is that it is “a right or the power to engage in certain actions without control or interference”.

Freedom means different things to different people at different times, depending on what political context is being used. The two major senses of freedom are: freedom of and freedom from. Freedom of means freedom to do something. It is the lack of constraints on behavior. Freedom from means immunity from discrimination and it comes close to the concept of equality.

In my opinion i feel that freedom is the power or right to act, speak, or think

Freedom is defined in many different ways: The state of being free or at liberty rather than in confinement or under physical restraint;Political or national independence; Personal liberty, as opposed to bondage or slavery.(Dictionary)

The common definition of the word freedom stated by the google dictionary is the power or right to act, speak or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. The majority of our society says that we are in fact not free because we are controlled in one way or another by laws or hindered by racism. In my eyes the declaration of independence holds the answer to the question “what does it mean to be free” america’s founding fathers wrote this in 1776 and in it they put the rights on which our freedom exists. The declaration of independence which contains the freedoms on which America was founded upon holds the answer to the question what does it mean

     I think that there is no good definition for the word freedom for the simple fact nobody’s free

Today we accept that freedom is a basic right human right but what exactly is freedom. 1On one hand, there is physical freedom. People who are not imprisoned or enslaved are free. On the other hand, there is freedom as a the right to act, speak or think what you want. People cannot reach their full potential if they are not free in both senses of the word.

Freedom has a large range of meaning. The encyclopedia Britannica defines freedom as “the quality or state of being free, and the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action” (Britannica). In the American society there is a lot of emphasis on freedom, and the right to be free, but one must question to what extent we are truly “free”.