Essay On Family Issues In The Crucible And A Raisin In The Sun

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“I hate you mom or dad!” How many times have you said that sentence yourself? In the play A Raisin in the Sun, and The Crucible there were many family issues. Even though many family members have differences they are able to reconstruct themselves in order to fix their family issues. In A Raisin in the Sun you can see family issues, and there were a lot and the fact that there were only 5 household members. Who can expect so much problems to come from 5 household members? Everybody has an issue with their family whether if it is their mother,father, or even a sibling. Many people have the tendency to just ignore all of these problems, by ignoring their parents, or by walking away like some of the characters from A Raisin in the Sun, …show more content…

Walter destroyed what you would call a family. You would think that money could be the solution of all of your problems, but instead Walter let the insurance money influence him and let it control him. A Raisin in the Sun is a play that took place in the 1950s in Southside Chicago which made a major difference on how family acted towards each other. When Walter spends all of the money that Mama has trusted him with Beneatha, Mama, and Ruth are disappointment at him. Even at one point Beneatha states “Bad? Say anything bad to him? No-I told him he was a sweet boy and full of dreams and everything is strictly peachy keen, as the ofay kids say!” With this, you can see that Beneatha is beyond disappointed and she believes that Walter cannot be saved from his illness which is in this case the money. According to Masterplots,Fourth Edition November 2010,p1-3 it states “These opportunities, however, create tensions and competition in the Younger family dramatized by Walter’s verbal battles with his mother and sister and Beneatha’s arguments with her mother. Moreover, the elusiveness of these dreams create frustration that leads to bitterness.”(Tackach). What I believe this quote indicates is that since the Younger family knew about insurance money there has been competition between the Youngers siblings deciding who gets the money either if it Walter for his …show more content…

They had many problems with family because since Proctor had an affair with Abigail his wife Elizabeth could not trust him again and he family ripped apart. According to Proctor “I am only wondering how I may prove what she told me, Elizabeth. If the girl’s a saint now, I think it is not easy to prove she’s fraud, and town gone so silly. She told it to me in a room alone- I have no proof for it.” This indicates that he has lost Elizabeth’s trust. During this time men could do anything and nobody would say a word, but if a woman does something then they can be killed which makes me believe that is why Elizabeth stood by his side even though she had figured out he had an affair with Abigail. How can anybody solve this problem? In The Crucible Proctor apologizes at the end when it is his last moments of life. He speaks from the heart and he is sincere with his wife. Even though, it was too late for him he actually did fix his family problems which is by

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