Similarities Between Fences And The Hungry Woman

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This paper deals with the using of fences and borders, compare and contrast August Wilson’ s Fences with Cherrie Moraga’ s The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea in terms of depictions of boundaries relate to the issues of race and gender in America. By focusing on the themes of racism and sexism in both play, they will be compared and contrasted in terms of how they depict the limits of men or women in the American society and how the inequality blackouts the lives of the characters. In Fences, the borders which keep the characters away from acting how they wish to, are more visionary than The Hungry Woman that they think they are restrained by the whites even if there is no such a statement in the constitution, where as in The Hungry Woman it depicts that there are both mental and physical borders which make the characters …show more content…

This suggestion is reinforced by Rose’s comment that ‘‘ There’s a lot of people don’t know they can do no better than they doing now.’’ (Wilson. p. 110) . On the other hand, in Moraga’s play the play’s theme of hopelessness of the women’ s struggle for freedom is introduced, especially in the conversations of Jason and Medea, ‘‘ Free! You’re the slave, Medea. Not me. You will always be my woman…’’ . ( Moraga. p. 339) . However, both play have also similarities. For instance, Troy can cheat his wife, be with other women. And Medea cheats her husband. Only which gender does the cheating matters here. One another, the fence which represents Troy’s determination to live his life according to what he believes is right. One one level, Troy strives to keep the influences of the world out, including Cory’s football ambitions and Rose’s playing the lottery, the way a fence keeps things out. On another level, though, the way Troy keeps Cory, Rose, and later his daughter close to him, making them live their

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