Analysis Of Fences By August Wilson

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Fences is the play, which noticed about humankind society in the late 1950s, it is the sixth in Wilson 's ten-part "Pittsburgh Cycle". Like all of the "Pittsburgh" plays, and the play started to begin in 1983. The beginning scene noticed about Troy, who is the man with fully strong controlling to his life, and his son, Cory and his wife, and the last scene is on the day of the funeral of Troy Maxson. Fences play is the portrait of kind other characters come with the flawed human, who has been the most controlling and power in their life. Their effort is also their result of its by understanding of this duplicates of the play involves to their audience. Fences play is the symbol of personal culture, and sympathetic, but unforgettable central August Wilson has an African-American mother, and his father is a white, who rarely take care him and his family. August Wilson is a good writer about African-American theater, which notice in his famous ones are Ground on which I Stand, Three plays, and Selected from Contemporary American Plays, and he gets an award for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1987, 1990), and a Whiting Award (1986). His plays are the ones to appear the typical African-American culture in drama by Christopher J. Wheatley (2000). August Wilson prejudice facing black people in American society, and he begins to write when he was twenty, he used to be paid twenty dollars by his older sister for college term paper. August Wilson was the first person, who had two plays running on Broadway, and specifies the black cultural response to the world of Internet Broadway Database (2014). The play by August Wilson is not the unique to African-American theater, but his landmark plays about African-American in the twentieth century, are the voice of African-American culture. According to The New York Times (2005), August Wilson resisted many offers from the famous director in Hollywood, August Wilson said he thought his plays offer, which was a different way to recognize African-Americans culture through the people. Fences (1957) is the one of Wilson 's plays, looking at Troy 's life, and white American finds out Fences play begins on Friday with Troy Maxson. Troy was a big star in The Negro Leagues, and he 's dreaming to be a player in the Major Leagues, But the racist feudal society did not accept the black player at that time. His son, Cory works on the fence with Troy, Cory wants to quit the job at A&P supermarket, and attend to football, but Troy immediately refuses Cory and warns Cory get his job back. Troy won with his controlling on Cory. Troy and his son is the contrast character to each other. The relationship between Troy and Cory become the strong evolution, which is growing among the people want to escape, and explore the world and another one wants to keep for themselves. Troy wants to keep his dreaming to be a player in the Major Leagues in his secret, and keep his son in his controlling such as the fence, which he builds around the house. Troy is the man, who has been persecuted, lost the right equal so much in African-American man. That lead to the thought of keeping him and his family in the safest place in the safe thought. He thought he set up the protection for his family. Troy 's lives is the crime of the feudal society without the right equal for African-American, his death is the freedom for a miserable human condition. Cory returns from the Marines to attend Troy’s funeral, Rose said to Cory the forgiveness will create a man, Cory sings a blue song for his father,

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