It weighed on you and sunk into your flesh. That shadow digging in your flesh. Trying to crawl in. Trying to live through you. Everywhere I looked, Troy Maxson was staring back at me. Plot Summary. LitCharts Teacher Editions. Teach your students to analyze literature like LitCharts does. Detailed explanations, analysis, and citation info for every important quote on LitCharts. The original text plus a side-by-side modern translation of every Shakespeare play. Sign Up. Already have an account?
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The son of Troy and Rose , Cory embodies a hope for the future unmet by the pessimism of his father. Raised in an era where the racism Troy experienced in his youth has, to a rather small yet significant extent, faded—and where opportunities for black lives have begun to open—Cory has an optimism about his future.
In other words, Cory must learn to stand up to his father, but also to respect the struggle his father faced that made him who he was. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:. Act 1: Scene 1 Quotes.
Related Themes: Blackness and Race Relations. Page Number and Citation : 8 Cite this Quote. Explanation and Analysis:. Act 1: Scene 3 Quotes. Page Number and Citation : 34 Cite this Quote. Page Number and Citation : 35 Cite this Quote. Page Number and Citation : Cite this Quote. Act 2: Scene 1 Quotes. Related Symbols: The Fence. In order for the play to have so much depth and emotion, symbolism is crucial to the work itself and the heavy topics.
All my plays are rewriting that same story. I'm not sure what it means, other than life is hard" Calvert, n. In so many ways Fences is such an ordinary story that its power comes from the ways in which ordinary people hear and view it. There is no doubt but that the metaphor of the fence prevails, working its way across work, family, friendship and the emotional pain of living a life literally dependent on garbage for survival.
This is what Wilson wrote about in his Fences of the s. The play touches upon racism, shifting family dynamics, and the politics of war. While racism plays an important and vital role in the play, instead of lamenting the issue, Wilson uses the characters as a weapon against the rampant racism of the time.
In the same fashion, the relationship between Troy, Rose, and Cory demonstrates the shifting cultural and. Father-Child Relationships in Hamlet and Fences In both William Shakespeare's Hamlet and August Wilson's Fences, the emphasis placed on parent-child relationship is vital, as family plays an important role in developing a character's values as well as his or her upbringing does.
While Ophelia, Laertes, and Hamlet show loyalty to their fathers unconditionally, Cory, even though looks up Troy as a figure, eventually exhibits disrespect to him. The relationship that Ophelia shares with her father. At the beginning of the play, it seems like Cory is really trying to be like his father. Rose even points this out to Troy, saying, "He's just trying to be like you with the sports" 1. In one scene, we see Cory try over and over to engage his father in a conversation about baseball, but Troy constantly shoots him down.
Later on in the play, we actually see Cory pick up Troy's bat and attempt to hit the rag ball in the front yard the way his father does. It's pretty ironic that Cory tries to be like his father by playing sports, because this is precisely the issue that tears them apart. For more on that, check out Troy's "Character Analysis. We see Cory return home on the day of Troy's funeral wearing a Marine corporal's uniform.
Stage directions tell us, "His posture is that of a military man, and his speech has a clipped sternness" 2. It definitely seems like Cory has been through a lot since Troy kicked him out seven years earlier. We learn in this scene that Cory plans to get married soon. It seems like he's definitely on the road to becoming his own man, but he's still haunted by his father. He tells Rose: The whole time I was growing up
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