A young child grows up seeing many things and remembering many memories. But the most important things that a person can remember are the memories from home. In families there are things called traditions and in most cases families past their traditions down from generation to generation. Traditions are what separates many families from one another and in some cases bring them together. The play Crowns shows us how an institution can bring not jus black people together to praise there lord, but the traditions that goes along with the many years of holy celebration.
Watching Crowns we listen to the many different stories that all of the ladies in play tell. Listening to the stories we notice how each lady talked about the memories growing up, the life lessons learned, the good and bad times of their youth. They go far back as to discussing Africa and events in slavery that play a part in the reasons of why they congregate in churches today. Slaves could not form and gather, but the only place that they were able to group was in church. Church was an outlook for slaves and a social status for blacks in later generations. Blacks use Church as a place to show their creativity and the fine clothes that they had.
Themes are subjects, topics of discourse or of artistic representation. Crowns shows us many feminist themes; I think the most important and interesting theme that the characters portray is image. Women have been giving the image of being dainty and in the church women should be fully covered head to toe. The ladies discuss the essential quote in this play, “When one presents oneself before God… that you should be at your best, you should present excellence before the Almighty.” The theme image is related to the female pr...
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...ay maybe sexist and maybe even controversial; for example the character Jeanette, a male writer may expand on how flirtatious she is with her hats.
Feminism is a theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes or organized activity on behalf of women's rights and interests. My perspective on feminism is that I am happy that women can have something to represent us in a whole. For years we have been separated by class, gender, and religion, but when a person presents the word its rings a ball of women in all. I think I am a feminist, because all of my life I have been for women rights and equal justice for my gender. Being able to stand up and be a feminist I think is an amazing thing because having the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of a group of people takes a lot of work and courage, especially if you have no support from others.
In the opening of both the play and the novel we are introduced to the two main female characters which we see throughout both texts. The authors’ styles of writing effectively compare and contrast with one another, which enables the reader to see a distinct difference in characters, showing the constrictions that society has placed upon them.
is that of witchcraft and evil. This is a primary theme in the play as
There are many different themes that are present throughout this play; however the two larger themes are slavery and Christian values. Throughout the play these two themes are present with every character and yet at the same time seem to be at odds with each other. When it comes to the idea of slavery, the fact that this book was written at the time to persuade the readers, especially the northerners that slavery is evil, un-Christian, and intolerable in society. Even with the idea of slavery, we can find that the play takes a great amount of time to show the fact that the slavery system does not follow the Christian values. These two themes seem to be forever intertwining with each other.
Feminism is the advocacy of women’s rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes. In simple terms, it is the ideology of women being equal to men and it is often misinterpreted as the belief of women being above them. Feminists believe in diminishing patriarchy which is a system of society and or government in which men are considered more powerful than women. When people are against feminism they are supporting sexism which is why it is important to educate ourselves on the matter and to understand why we need it.
The book follows Dana who is thrown back in time to live in a plantation during the height of slavery. The story in part explores slavery through the eye of an observer. Dana and even Kevin may have been living in the past, but they were not active members. Initially, they were just strangers who seemed to have just landed in to an ongoing play. As Dana puts it, they "were observers watching a show. We were watching history happen around us. And we were actors." (Page 98). The author creates a scenario where a woman from modern times finds herself thrust into slavery by account of her being in a period where blacks could never be anything else but slaves. The author draws a picture of two parallel times. From this parallel setting based on what Dana goes through as a slave and her experiences in the present times, readers can be able to make comparison between the two times. The reader can be able to trace how far perceptions towards women, blacks and family relations have come. The book therefore shows that even as time goes by, mankind still faces the same challenges, but takes on a reflection based on the prevailing period.
...lack is a good thing, or a beautiful thing, and that they are just as good as everyone else in the world. It is often later in life that an African-American will realize just how important, strong, and great that they are. This play does a wonderful job of showing how racism, obvious and discreet, manipulates and changes the way a person will behave.
At the very beginning of the play, Martin Luther King Jr. is alone in his room on a rainy night, trying to write a speech that he's incapable of completing at the moment. While the course of events continues to head south for the severely horsed King, as he loses his toothbrush, is stuck with smelly shoes, and has a power outage, the creative artists at the People’s Light Theater portray a dark and dreary atmosphere for the story to start. Although subtle at first, the darkness becomes more notable once Camae, a big, bright ball of contrasting energy brings King the cup of coffee he had ordered, demonstrating the theme of balancing light and dark. As the play progresses, Dr. King examines his achievements, failures, and unfinished dreams such as not buying his daughter who he would never see again, a flower. Reminiscing about how happy the small little flower made his daughter, he became happy, yet at that moment, the stage became surrounded amongst dark colored lights as one soft white light projected onto a small grouping of flowers. King's memories suddenly had a bittersweet feeling to them as he realized he would never share that moment again with his daughter. The contrast between the coloring of the lights mixed with the at first happy story displayed the theme of balancing light and dark in
The play encourages people of all different types of races to be proud of where they come from because it is what makes you as a person. There are certain subjects that won’t be taught to students of younger ages but it is important to know because we cannot hide the history that could benefit our personal intellect. Flyin’ West by Pearl Cleage is a play I highly recommend because she depicts the lives of these women vividly and opens your mind to all these possible outcomes of what may have happened if blacks were not
.... An investigation into the imbalance of power in the play reveals the ideologies of race and gender that drive the power dynamics of the play. The construction of the inferior nature of non-European characters is firmly grounded in imperialist, European and patriarchal values.
The play focusses on three generations of Women, Nan Dear, Gladys and Dolly and where they felt as though they belonged. Nan Dear knew where she belonged and that was the humpy in the flats with her daughter and granddaughter. Nan Dear knows that she won't be accepted into white society just because she is an Aboriginal and those of a different colour or foreign country weren't accepted. Gladys and Dolly both wanted to be accepted into white society, they wanted to feel as though they belonged there.
The play asks the question: In the midst of unemployment, death, and a white power structure allowing few alternative, where do you look for salvation. Do you turn to Christianity, as embodies in the wealthy but deceased Prophet Samuel, or do you return to an older African spirituality embodied by the impossibly aged Aunt Ester? Perhaps salvation lays with Malcolm X and the black power movement, or with Wolf and the numbers game of a white Mafia.
Feminism, in its simplest definition, is the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. (Webster) Feminists fight for equality for women to men socially, politically, and economically. At the peak of feminist discourse is equality for men and women in education and in employment. However, feminism also focuses on more than issues regarding the rights of women in relation to men. Issues of gender equality and women’s right to control their sexuality are also at the core of feminist theory. A key argument made by many feminists is how women have very little control over their sexuality, mainly being defined and controlled by men. T...
“Feminism”, as defined today, is “1: the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes,” and “2: organized activity on behalf of women’s rights and interests.”2 Many critics claim that feminism has been active longer than the word itself has existed.3 The word, “feminist” was not in true use until the late 1800s and early 1900s, but activism for women’s rights was alive and well a...
Some say that this play is racial in that the family is black, and what the family is going through could only happen to people of that race. One prominent racial is...
Feminism is defined as the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes. It began as an organized activity on behalf of women?s rights and interests. This concept was developed to help women earn a place in a predominantly male society. Unfortunately over the years, the intentions of feminism have become distorted, not only by anti-feminists, but also by the feminists themselves. The principle of equality for women and men has turned into a fight in which feminists wish to be better than men. Feminism has been twisted and misunderstood so much that it has become a harmful idea.