“ Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up “ - Robert Frost.
“Fences” by August Wilson is a powerful, moving play that has its title as the axis for the audience to interpret in their own way. Fences is centered around the building of a fence that has a different but entangled meaning for each character in the play.Fences went further than just the vague interpretation of fence and took a step farther by asking why was the “fence’’ put up ?
The Protagonist, 53 year old , Troy Maxson is a African American male that has endured many hardships in his life. Troy grew up with an abusive father and experience racism which kept him from accomplishing his dreams of becoming a professional Baseball Player. The fence to Troy was a blockade from his past and his future and was also. Troy’s early failures in life like his baseball dream, his prison time, cruel childhood made troy a very unfearful man. His only fear was DEATH. Troy said “Death ain't nothing. I done seen him. Done wrassled with him. You can't tell me nothing about death.” (1.1) Troy talks as if death is not fearful but his acknowledgment of it …show more content…
Rose was a smart woman who didn’t let things in her family go unnoticed she saw the ripples and division that happening between her son and husband. She asked Troy to build a fence around their because she knew that with Troy been on the downside of age that he would enlist the help of Cory, their son, to help therefore making them have to work together instead of parting ways. Cory: "I don't see why Mama want a fence around the yard noways."Troy: "Damn if I know either. What the hell she keeping out with it? She ain't got nothing nobody want." (2.1) Troy and Cory were blind to the plan that rose had put together and could not understand how bad it hurried her to see her family not going in the right direction. Little did they know she did it to keep them close to
“Fences” by August Wilson is a powerful, moving play that has its title as the axis for the audience to interpret in their own way. Fences is centered around the building of a fence that has a different but entangled meaning for each character in the play.Fences went further than just the vague interpretation of fence and took a step farther by asking why was the “fence’’ put up ?
The Protagonist, 53 year old , Troy Maxson is a African American male that has endured many hardships in his life. Troy grew up with an abusive father and experience racism which kept him from accomplishing his dreams of becoming a professional Baseball Player. The fence to Troy was a blockade from his past and his future and was also. Troy’s early failures in life like his baseball dream, his prison time, cruel childhood made troy a very unfearful man. His only fear was DEATH. Troy said “Death ain't nothing. I done seen him. Done wrassled with him. You can't tell me nothing about death.” (1.1) Troy talks as if death is not fearful but his acknowledgment of it …show more content…
Rose was a smart woman who didn’t let things in her family go unnoticed she saw the ripples and division that happening between her son and husband. She asked Troy to build a fence around their because she knew that with Troy been on the downside of age that he would enlist the help of Cory, their son, to help therefore making them have to work together instead of parting ways. Cory: "I don't see why Mama want a fence around the yard noways."Troy: "Damn if I know either. What the hell she keeping out with it? She ain't got nothing nobody want." (2.1) Troy and Cory were blind to the plan that rose had put together and could not understand how bad it hurried her to see her family not going in the right direction. Little did they know she did it to keep them close to