Beyoncé Knowles is a Grammy Award-winning, multi-platinum R&B musician who is commended for her exhilarating voice, music, and performance. The unsuspected release of her latest visual album, Lemonade, nurtured her public persona as one of the many influential celebrities of today. In addition to fornication and reconciliation, Lemonade tells a story that focuses on African American oppression and women hood. Taking both a political and spiritual approach with the use of literary elements and techniques, “Freedom”, featuring Kendrick Lamar, displays a central message: the racial and social injustices on the African American minority involving police brutality will be addressed and terminated through perseverance, cohesion, empowerment and women.
The setting of “Freedom” revolves around the effects of slavery, including the current social issues of police brutality and the attempts to subside it with the Black Lives Matter movement. “Freedom” appeals to the African American audience and those who oppose their treatment. The artists, Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar, are the protagonists of the song who are faced with the conflict of man vs society, which is confronting ethnic …show more content…
A triumph of brusque, it’s the resilient benevolent approach taken to address, mend, and terminate acts of oppression on a minority. Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar gives an indictment of police brutality and a nod to the Black Lives Matter movement and inspiration of women. In addition to the use of literary elements, both artists, primary use of allusion and other literary techniques such as figures of speech, symbol, form, irony and dialogue, help create this idea. “Freedom” helped enthuse society to alter their views on racial and social injustices from lethargy to
The setting of “Freedom” revolves around the effects of slavery, including the current social issues of police brutality and the attempts to subside it with the Black Lives Matter movement. “Freedom” appeals to the African American audience and those who oppose their treatment. The artists, Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar, are the protagonists of the song who are faced with the conflict of man vs society, which is confronting ethnic …show more content…
A triumph of brusque, it’s the resilient benevolent approach taken to address, mend, and terminate acts of oppression on a minority. Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar gives an indictment of police brutality and a nod to the Black Lives Matter movement and inspiration of women. In addition to the use of literary elements, both artists, primary use of allusion and other literary techniques such as figures of speech, symbol, form, irony and dialogue, help create this idea. “Freedom” helped enthuse society to alter their views on racial and social injustices from lethargy to