Theatre of the Oppressed

honest, as most scenes granted large, explosive head to head with South African authorities and Black South Africans in illegal townships. I do not doubt that this scene and others aren’t based on real events, but they downplay the perspective of the oppressed to give a Hollywood appeal. What I…

of the family and that should be the only job that she has. Well, all that has modernised in most parts of India, however, in rural areas where child marriage still exists and women are told that “girls who read make bad wives”, women are still oppressed due to old traditions and customs (Iyer). Parched made a bold move to bring such a neglected issue to light out in the open. Leena Yadav definitely took her audience to an appalling and thought-provoking territory with this film. Times of India…

With little experience and with less learning, I have been able to throw my thoughts hastily and imperfectly together; and trusting to your patient and generous indulgence, I will proceed to lay them before you. Frederick Douglass, What to a slave is the fourth of July. I thought what better way to start this paper then with a quote from Mr. Douglass, who states it best. I was astonished and amaze at what great strides and strength Mr. Douglass took to stand before a crowd of white men and women…

husband-wife relationships. As much as we may want to believe that inequality is a thing in the past, inequality is very much still present. The stories both symbolize unhappy wives, who not only are in agony, but both women are in torment and feel oppressed in their relationships. According to the novels, women have always come second to the male population. The stories challenge us to contemplate on the oppression and exploitation of women. However, this idea has been challenged in today’s…

racial segregation. The novel mainly talks about two men. One man's struggle to accept his unjust death with dignity. Another man struggles with his own identity and responsibility to his community. A Lesson Before Dying reveals the process of an oppressed black people's attempt to gain recognition of their human dignity, their human rights, and freedom to pursue their dreams. These raise many questions. Why segregation exists? Why it takes so much time and efforts for black people to break down…

“Boys don’t cry” and “act like a lady”, adults direct those phrases towards children often. They are usually heard during childhood, when the children are growing and starting to form their own thoughts. But what do they mean? These phrases are just examples of gender roles that society makes the public conform to. Gender roles, which are ways your gender is supposed to act, have been a part of society for a long time, and only in the recent years has the topic been discussed in greater detail.…

serves it to others. Twain identifies the issue of race by encompassing all of racism’s detriments when he dresses Jim, a black man, up as an Arab man: “it was a long curtain-calico gown, and a white horse-hair wig and whiskers; and then he took his theatre-paint and painted Jim’s face and hands and ears and neck all over a dead dull solid blue” (Twain 171). Twain uses the picture of an Arab to highlight that cultures mistreat other cultures, not just whites against blacks. Jim, a black man,…

How would an actor playing the part of Bernarda Alba in Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba use Duende, knowledge and understanding of Franco’s Spain when preparing to play this role? The House of Bernarda Alba is a play by the Spanish dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca. It has always been related to a group of other plays such as Yerma and Blood Wedding, labelling them as a ‘rural trilogy’. However Lorca did not plan to include it in his trilogy of the Spanish earth, which he did not finish when…

community, when you go into the white world you are still a nigger, you are still a nigger, you are still a nigger,”. SNCC’s policy was to be nonviolent and to support political and economic power of African Americans. They performed many restaurant, theatres and bus…

Authority, Subversion and the Telling voices of the Subalterns in Mahesh Dattani’s Seven Steps around the Fire ABSTRACT: Transgendered occupy a chunk of Indian population. Not only in India but in most of the countries they live like social outcasts. Mahesh Dattani is a playwright who takes up his pen for these wretched of the earth. Seven Steps around the Fire dramatizes the brutal murder of a hijra for her secret marriage with a son of a minister. Dattani delves deep into the problem and…