The play Fences by August Wilson, and Romare Bearden’s painting Two, but not Two, both share similar stylistic devices to serve a common purpose. At the end of the play Fences, the character Rose, is talking to her son, Cory, about Troy, the protagonist in Fences. In Rose’s monologue she explains Troy’s character and how she met him. Rose’s monologue shares similarities with Romare Bearden’s painting Two, but not two. Romare Bearden, was one of Wilson’s major influences in writing along with other poets and writers, his painting Two but not Two show distinct similarities between the figure in the painting and Troy. Rose’s monologue in Wilson’s play Fences, and Bearden’s painting, Two but not Two, both use the stylistic devices of irony, hyperbole,
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In Two, but not Two, the figure in Bearden’s painting is hyperbolic, filling up most of the painting. The figure also has harsh lines to emphasize the figure and softer wispy lines around the harsh lines. The figure, again, relates to Troy in Fences where Rose is talking Cory about Troy. “When your daddy walked through the house he was so big he filled it up” (Wilson, 98). This quote from Rose’s monologue is also hyperbolic because she described Troy as “filling up the whole house” like with the figure in the painting filling up the page. This serves to the purpose of strength and showing the complexity of life by illustrating the hyperbolic figure in the painting and the description of Troy through Rose. And how too much strength and power can fill up spaces, leaving room for no one else. With Troy, who filled up most of the space, pushed Rose away and in the end led to him being caught in a complicated situation between Rose and his girlfriend. In Bearden’s painting, the exaggerated figure takes up most of the space and is defined with harsh lines and the soft wispy lines, that represent Troy’s affair, intertwined adds more complexity to the figure, like Troy’s …show more content…
In Fences, the concept of building metaphorical fences, to keep something or someone in, or out, is present throughout the entire play. In Rose’s monologue at the end of the play, she states that a metaphorical fence was built between her and Troy after Raynell was born. “By the time Raynell came into the house, me and your daddy had done lost touch with one another” (Wilson, 98). This shows the metaphorical fence Rose built between her and Troy to keep Troy out when she found about about the affair. And also how the metaphorical fence between them turn into a wall after Raynell was born. This serves the purpose by showing that because of complicated situations life offers, metaphorical fences can be built. The fence between Rose and Troy also showed Rose’s strength after she isolated herself from Troy and took care of Raynell. In Two, but not Two, Bearden added behind the figure in the painting a wall of blue the fills half the page. On top of the wall of blue is a white color mixed with the blue, and at the top corner on the left is a section of red. The wall of blue symbolizes a fence being built behind the figure. The white mixed with the blue represents it turning into a wall. The red section represents pain from the past and how it is still present, even after the fence was built, with the red splotch on the
In Two, but not Two, the figure in Bearden’s painting is hyperbolic, filling up most of the painting. The figure also has harsh lines to emphasize the figure and softer wispy lines around the harsh lines. The figure, again, relates to Troy in Fences where Rose is talking Cory about Troy. “When your daddy walked through the house he was so big he filled it up” (Wilson, 98). This quote from Rose’s monologue is also hyperbolic because she described Troy as “filling up the whole house” like with the figure in the painting filling up the page. This serves to the purpose of strength and showing the complexity of life by illustrating the hyperbolic figure in the painting and the description of Troy through Rose. And how too much strength and power can fill up spaces, leaving room for no one else. With Troy, who filled up most of the space, pushed Rose away and in the end led to him being caught in a complicated situation between Rose and his girlfriend. In Bearden’s painting, the exaggerated figure takes up most of the space and is defined with harsh lines and the soft wispy lines, that represent Troy’s affair, intertwined adds more complexity to the figure, like Troy’s …show more content…
In Fences, the concept of building metaphorical fences, to keep something or someone in, or out, is present throughout the entire play. In Rose’s monologue at the end of the play, she states that a metaphorical fence was built between her and Troy after Raynell was born. “By the time Raynell came into the house, me and your daddy had done lost touch with one another” (Wilson, 98). This shows the metaphorical fence Rose built between her and Troy to keep Troy out when she found about about the affair. And also how the metaphorical fence between them turn into a wall after Raynell was born. This serves the purpose by showing that because of complicated situations life offers, metaphorical fences can be built. The fence between Rose and Troy also showed Rose’s strength after she isolated herself from Troy and took care of Raynell. In Two, but not Two, Bearden added behind the figure in the painting a wall of blue the fills half the page. On top of the wall of blue is a white color mixed with the blue, and at the top corner on the left is a section of red. The wall of blue symbolizes a fence being built behind the figure. The white mixed with the blue represents it turning into a wall. The red section represents pain from the past and how it is still present, even after the fence was built, with the red splotch on the