The play is called Fences because each character within the play straddles on one side of the fence or the other. Lyon, the eldest son, wants to prove his father wrong about his intentions; he borrows money that he has every intention of paying back. His father, on the other hand, does not believe he is capable. Cory, the second child, born into wedlock, wants to show his dad that he is worthy of his father's love through his love of sports, as his father once emboddied.
Symbotically, the idea of the father not finishing the fence, represents unfinished business within the family. Troy's father was a wanderer, he slept and left many of the women he encountered. Troy wanted different for his life; he met Rose whom he thought was the best thing that happened to him and envisioned a life wherein he would be faithful and loving.
Jesus is a fence within the union of Rose and Troy because through Rose, Troy was able to forgive and move pass his father's sin (infedelity). Though Rose appeared to forgive him, as his wife, due to death of the child's mother, she worked through foregivene to raise the child her husband fathered within their marriage.
Fences seperates Troy and Cory due to Troy's inability to understand the plite of his son. Like most father's, sometimes it is difficult to understand the mindset of a son when there is a generational gap of understanding; difficulties one might face. Troy was unable or unwilling to comprehend the differerences, goals or attributes that his son brought to the table. Cory, was more like his father, than his father cared to recognize.
There is a fence between Troy and Lyons because Troy is no longer married to Lyon's mom. Troy views Lyons as a mistake that he made when he was a young man. Troy felt that he was barely able to feed himself when Lyons was born. As Troy feels most of his life; he sacrificied alot for his family.
There are alot of fences that apply to this play, fences between husband and wife, between parents and children and amongst life and destiny; Love is unconditional built upon fences, meant to keep the one's we love in and the one's we hate out!
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Hamlet III, IV, V
Claudius is not purely evil. He is a flawed human being; as are many of the humans depicted in the Bible following the initial sins committed by Adam and Eve. Jealousy was the motive for Claudius killing his brother; Hamlet's father, the former King of Denmark. Claudius, envied Hamlet's father as an emperor and loathed with passion for his brother's wife. This scenario is parallel to the biblical story of Cain and Abel.
After marrying his brother's wife and becoming the current King of Denmark, Claudius attends his brother's funeral and hints at the fact that he has carried on an affair with his brother's wife. "Your better wisdom, which have freely gone with this affair along --for all our thanks" (1361). Claudius appears to be happy at his brother's demise and thus inherits his brother's throne, valor and wife
Adultery is the first sin that Claudius commits under the commandments of God.
Though Claudius justifies, and at times, denies the fact that he has killed his brother, he attempts to reassure Hamlet that he will inherit the throne of his father. "As of a father, let the world take note, you are the the most immediate to our throne" , stated the King (1363). Claudius displays remorse for his late brother by recognizing, in light of his sinful action, his brother's son will still become King.
Claudius is not purely evil because he is aware of his sins and seeks forgiveness through his belief in God and Christianity. "Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens, to wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy but to confront the visage of offence?" (1411). Claudius finally admits he murdered his brother and looks to God to wash away his sin.
Shakespeare's Hamlet could have been renamed "The Tragedy of Claudius, King of Denmark" due to the fact that it was a story of lust, betrayal and enlightenment. Though Claudius was successful in marrying his brother's wife, unlike his brother, he never experienced true love. Through Hamlet's play, Claudius sees his mistakes, and is enlightened to his own demise. The tragedy of Claudius is parallel to the "mark of Cain"; protected from a premature death, yet death succumbs.
From the point of view of Claudius, Shakespeare biblically infers that brotherly betrayal and lust, yet not purely evil, amounts to sin, remorse and death.
After marrying his brother's wife and becoming the current King of Denmark, Claudius attends his brother's funeral and hints at the fact that he has carried on an affair with his brother's wife. "Your better wisdom, which have freely gone with this affair along --for all our thanks" (1361). Claudius appears to be happy at his brother's demise and thus inherits his brother's throne, valor and wife
Adultery is the first sin that Claudius commits under the commandments of God.
Though Claudius justifies, and at times, denies the fact that he has killed his brother, he attempts to reassure Hamlet that he will inherit the throne of his father. "As of a father, let the world take note, you are the the most immediate to our throne" , stated the King (1363). Claudius displays remorse for his late brother by recognizing, in light of his sinful action, his brother's son will still become King.
Claudius is not purely evil because he is aware of his sins and seeks forgiveness through his belief in God and Christianity. "Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens, to wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy but to confront the visage of offence?" (1411). Claudius finally admits he murdered his brother and looks to God to wash away his sin.
Shakespeare's Hamlet could have been renamed "The Tragedy of Claudius, King of Denmark" due to the fact that it was a story of lust, betrayal and enlightenment. Though Claudius was successful in marrying his brother's wife, unlike his brother, he never experienced true love. Through Hamlet's play, Claudius sees his mistakes, and is enlightened to his own demise. The tragedy of Claudius is parallel to the "mark of Cain"; protected from a premature death, yet death succumbs.
From the point of view of Claudius, Shakespeare biblically infers that brotherly betrayal and lust, yet not purely evil, amounts to sin, remorse and death.
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