Beneatha Younger, one of the few characters presented in Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun, possesses a mentality unique from any other character: she hungers for intellectualism and thirsts for individuality. Her struggles to attain these desired traits embody the hardships that ambitious women – real or fictional – have also faced. Beneatha ...
Tragedy has changed considerably since it was created by the ancient Greek dramatists. In The Poetics Aristotle essentially lay down a groundwork of rules for writing what he had come to view as the ideal tragedy; at the same time he give indications of how a less than ideal tragedy might be conceived. Several factors ...
Lorraine Hansberry’s play “A Raisin in the Sun” was far ahead of its time in both depicting the everyday life of black people in a way that everyone can understand and discuss the oppression that black people still felt even though strides had been taken towards civil rights. According to NPR, Hansberry shared the aims ...
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character” (King).In his poems, “Dream Deferred,” “Dreams” and “As I Grew Older,” Langston Hughes (1902-1967) considers the importance of dreams. Although ...
