Author: peace (Page 1 of 2)

I found A Raisin In The Sun a very interesting read. I liked the story plot and found the characters interesting. Mama was my favorite character she is very deeply rooted in her dreams that she shared with her husband who passed away and is still very devoted to them. All of the characters had very different ideas of how the $10,000 would impact their life and what the best way to spend it was. I really enjoyed the part when Beneatha was attending medical school. It was a very good addition to the story of her aspirations of being a doctor considering she is a woman of color and at that time there weren’t many colored female doctors. Her aspirations to be a physician was interesting to learn about.  Walter, however is very naive and is trying to find some way to make some money and not really thinking through the consequences for his actions. Assimilation of the family in a white neighborhood was not something that Beneatha wanted, the need tp uphold the families roots was important and not trying to fit in with the wealthy white people.

Reading A raisin I the sun was a lot different than the movie in my opinion. Both were excellent, but I preferred the book because I was able to paint the picture the story was telling in my mind in a  much different way than the movie. The characters in the movie were wonderful and portrayed their roles very well.

I found it interesting how Hermia is in love with Lysander and not the man that her father wants her to be with, but  Helena is in love with Demetreius and is jealous of the fact that Demetrious seems to want Hermia but she does not want him. It’s an interesting cycle that happens in life, a person is interested in someone but the other person doesn’t feel  the same way.

I also found it so disturbing  that Hermia’s father sees his daughter as a possession that he decides what he does with and whom he gives her away to.  It’s frightening to think of what arranged marriages signify and that a father would go to the lengths of killing his own daughter for not obeying his wishes. It’s demoralizing to think that a parent would view their child as a posession rather than a person with their own opinions and feelings.

Lysistrata is an interesting character and posses female strength . She seems like she has realized that although she is a woman and there are limitations to what she and other women can do, but at the the same time realizes that there is a power that women do behold. The women are tired of men fighting, and they are tired of not having a say and being brushed off by men, so they have come to the conclusion that they can withhold something from men to try to achieve their goal of stopping fighting.  There is some wit and cleaverlesness about Lysistrata that I really enjoyed reading about female empowerment.

In Oedipus Rex there seems to be a general theme of fate that is expressed. It is a tragic, but yet also brave. Oedipus poses qualities that are admirable and that the people look up to, yet he has this fate of killing his father which creates for a tragic drama.  Oedipus has achieved solving the riddle of Sphinx which showed his bravery and courage, and so he becomes the King of Thebes.