Fiddler on the Roof Tradition is the main theme in the play Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein. Tradition plays an enormous role in their culture. For example the head of the house is the big papa. Also according to the tradition the big papa is in charge of arranging whom his daughters will be married to. He makes the arrangements without taking into account his daughters concern on whether they like the man or not. Likewise the big papa was in charge of providing food and protecting his family. The mother teaches the daughters how to cook, clean, and do the house duties. Another way the play emphasis tradition is by showing the act that people do before entering a house. Previous entering a house they always kiss …show more content…
Hodel and Perchik will get married, even if the big Papa would not give them blessings. Tevye gives them his blessings, but he was upset that they said they would get married even without his consent. Since people had a match, they did not marry for love and that leads to a music that is called Do you love me? and Tvye asked his wife Golde if she loves him. That was a cute scene and sad at the same time, because they did not get to choose to marry one another. Golde had no other choice other than accepting Tevye as her husband because that 's who her dad match her with. But what if she loved someone else before Tevye? In the song she thinks about whether she loves him or not. In the song she also seems that love it 's something that came after they got married. Love grows in their heart everyday life as a spouse, she mentions that for 25 years she washed his clothes, cooked his meals, cleaned his house, gave him children, that is how she describes love.
Jewish have to marry another Jewish person! Never marry anyone that is not the same religion as them. However one of Tevye 's eldest daughter eloped from her house and married a Russian man. Since the day she left the house Tevye considered her dead. He did not give them his blessings, he could never imagine a marriage outside their tradition. To him that was a border that his daughter should have never crossed, and if he gives them the blessing