One of the ways Hansberry manifested her views on society, was through the character Beneatha. With the aspiration to support her family, Beneatha strived to become a doctor, exemplifying the feminist movement during the mid-twentieth century with numerous women pushing for a variety of jobs that men previously dominated. Asagai offers Beneatha passage to Nigeria with him, under the assumption that she can help nurse and become a doctor in Nigeria, Beneatha told Mama that Asagai and her were “To go to Africa...be a doctor in Africa” (Hansberry 150). Comparing Beneatha’s hope to Asagai’s aspiration, which would comprise of Beneatha being a basic housewife, it is conspicuous that the ambitions prove diametrically opposed, constituting that men
