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 […]
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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 […]
Beneatha the Younger, one of the few characters presented in Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun, has a unique mind from every other character: she hungers for intellectualism and thirsts for uniqueness. Her struggles to achieve these desired characteristics embody the difficulties that ambitious women – real or fictional – also face. Beneatha […]