The Research studies anger in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun focusing on the themes of anger, dreams, and dreams deferred , racism and self-identity, through the techniques of symbolism , satire, sarcasm, contrast, irony, and foreshadowing.
Outline
I. Theoretical part: Anger in literature
1. Definitions:-
A. Plato saw that anger is a passion that is threatening the state security. He believes that art is playing a changing role towards such emotions.
B. Seneca argued that everyone should try to avoid anger to live peacefully with a free of passion mind.
C. Charles Stanley defined anger as a sneaky emotion that catches us because of a real or a misunderstand feeling of insult.
2. Origins:-
A. Women …show more content…
A Raisin in the Sun (1959) by Lorraine Hansberry, Anger is expressed by tackling the problems of racism and class distinction. The story is about a Black family who intends to live into a neighborhood for whites only.
C. A Doll's House (1879) by Henirk Ibsen, is about Nora Helmer who is childlike and her husband who often calls her "his doll". At the end, Nora sees that her husband is not worth love her so she changes totally and got angry at him and she leaves him.
II. A Raisin in the Sun (1959) by Lorraine Hansberry
1. Title: The title is taken from a poem by Langston Hughes called a dream deferred. The poem encourages everyone to work hard to catch his dreams or they would be useless like some raisins dried in the sun.
2. Genre: critics said that the play is tragicomedy. It is also a realistic one.
3. Origins: the play is a real life story that happened to its writer. Lorraine Hansberry's family are blacks. They move to a neighborhood for whites only where they suffer from the ill-treatment by their white neighbors.
4. Setting: the setting is indoors. They live in a small uninhabitable house. The place is torn because it cannot bear five members living in it.
5. Themes:
A. The major themes are dreams, racism, and …show more content…
It is a form of communi- cation that reveals a lot of important information about the obstacles that always face people. While angry, people may say things that they regret later. A very popular theme in drama is anger. Many play writes choose to write plots about anger. The 20th century playwrights flourished that theme as they apply lots of anger expressions, thoughts and actions in their plays taken from one's everyday life. Woman playwrights also have a big role while talking about this theme. They express one's feeling of anger towards their societies that treat them as slaves for men. Anger may be rooted from the French and American