In the stage play Madea’s Family Reunion, Tyler Perry stars as the lead actor, Mabel Simmons (Madea). Madea, the matriarch of the family, is charged with hosting her family for a funeral, a wedding, and a family reunion all in one weekend. The quick-to-speak Madea has to defend, teach, preach to, and admonish her family while dealing with each drama that presents itself. This play begins and ends with religious expression as a forte. One of the first lines comes from Mr. Brown, who says “everybody ain’t saved and we can’t expect them to act like us.” This introduction is followed by Madea’s rant about her recently deceased sister by saying “I hope she’s on a slow fall to hell!” Although joking, Madea continues throughout the entire play with a mordant stance on religious idea. …show more content…
Brown (Madea’s neighbor), and Reverend Lewis (the family’s reverend). Vickie cites 2 Thessalonians 3 & 10, if a man doesn’t work, he doesn’t eat, as she is rebuking Jackie (Madea’s niece) about her husband not working. Mr. Brown later quotes Old Testament writing, Proverbs 13:24, by stating that parents who spare the rod hate their children. Ironically, Madea portrays a vast knowledge of scripture, such as her detailed description of the book of Revelation as she is describing Mr. Brown as a fictitious beast with no neck. Madea also tells the Reverend that he needs the whole armor of God (Ephesians 6) when he comes to her house insinuating that the armor is an aesthetic thing that could be worn. Madea’s knowledge of scripture does not change the fact that she flees from almost every situation of religiosity, and even makes light of, and even abuses, religious rhetoric on every
His church stopped being my church. And yet, today, because Iʼm a coward, I let myself be initiated into that church. I let my father baptize me in all three names of that God who isnʼt mine any more. My God has another name” (p.5). When she is baptized on her fifteenth birthday, the ceremony has meat nothing to her. She doesn’t believe the Christian thought about sin and salvation. For Lauren, the book of Job is the best description of her father’s God. “God says he made everything and he knows everything so no one has any right to question what he does with any of it” (p.8) Laruen thinks Christian God just like a super-powerful man, who is playing them like playing with his toys. “If he is, what difference does it make if 700 people get killed in a hurricane—or if seven kids go to church and get dipped in a big tank of expensive water” (p.8) For Lauren, the God of Christian is lack of ability to change the world or unable to make the action to help human. And they never ask people to actively recognize that they can control their own destiny, which makes them passive and only wait for the others to save them from their miserable
The short story, The Rabbi in the Attic, written by Eileen Pollack (Curtis, 1998), enlightens the reader to the difficulties experienced by religious congregations as a whole, in a very regimented and legalistic form or religion. Pollack’s story also alluded to the fact of how ordered types of religions can lead to conflicting views and ideals from within the congregation over the same God (Schultz, 2015). The theme of The Rabbi in the Attic is undeniably about the harmful effects on congregations that adhere to ritual, tradition, stringent religious law and the emotional upheaval that follows dogma (Schultz, 2015). The Biblical allusion in The Rabbi in the Attic was highlighted by the characters and mimicked the adversity experienced by Jesus Christ with the Scribes and Pharisees in the New Testament gospels. Rabbi Heckler could be considered representative of the high priest Caiaphas (Pollack, 1998, p. 237) in enforcing the law, and the congregation, as those being oppressed by the law and wandering in darkness (Pollack, 1998, p. 240). After Rabbi Heckler’s ouster enters orthodox Rabbi Marion Bloomgareten, who represented the essence of reform similar to Jesus Christ (Pollack, 1998, p. 255). Like Christ, Rabbi Bloomgarten
This whole play by Arthur Miller shows how our community will turn on each other to save ourselves no matter if it’s right or wrong and it’s true in our society today. It also shows how a good man regained his happiness and holiness by standing up for what’s right against the lies and sacrificed himself for the truth.
...ke the other Puritans, Hope is able to follow her conscience and trust in her heart. When Nelema is imprisoned for her unorthodox method of healing of Cradock on Hope's behalf, Hope extricates Nelema from the authorities. After Magawisca is taken captive due to a promised rendezvous between Faith and Hope, Hope finds a way to rescue Magawisca from prison. Although Hope loves her sister and wishes to keep her home, she respects the sanctity of Faith's Christian bond with Oneco, albeit Catholic, and is happy for Faith when Oneco rescues her. Hope transcends the Puritan religion and embraces a universal religion, respecting others' differing relationships with God as holy. Hope, unlike her society, rejects strict adherence to religious tenets and follows her own heart.
When it came to the dialogue of the production and the understanding of it the performers again did an excellent job. Their gestures and vocal elements all aided in the production’s success and were all fittingly used by the characters. For example, when Lala was talking on the phone with Peachy she casually twirled the phone cord in her hand, leaned against the banister and childishly flirted with Peachy.
The Play takes place during the 1950s racism was still very common for African Americans during this time. After the family receives the money momma decided
The novelist with Christian concerns will find in modern life distortions which are repugnant to him, and his problem will be to make them appear as distortions to an audience which is used to seeing them as natural; and he may be forced to take ever more violent means to get his vision across to this hostile audience. When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax a little and use more normal ways of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the blind you draw large and
in by those who would cloak themselves in, and manipulate with, those beliefs. The play is
The overarching theme of the play is all about social status. The only thing Lala cares about is getting an acceptable date to Ballyhoo. Because of the time period the play was written in; every character has to act very superficial. Family does not seem to matter, relationships do not seem to matter like they do nowadays, but the only thing that seems to matter is reputation.
The play, set in the 1600’s during the witch hunt that sought to rid villages of presumed followers and bidders of the devil is a parallel story to the situation in the US in the 1950’s: McCarthyism, seeking the riddance of communist ideologists. Miller sets this story more particularly in a village called Salem, where the theocratic power governed by strict puritan rules require the people to be strong believers and forbid them to sin at risk of ending up in hell. However, the audience notices that despite this strong superficial belief in God, faith is not what truly motivates them, but it is rather money and reputation.
Introduction: All of the three texts explore religion and its practises, but each approach it from a different perspective. Whilst Owen and Brecht refer directly to the idea of God and Jesus, Vonnegut uses a far more ambiguous approach; the opinion of God in ‘Slaughterhouse 5’ has to be read allegorically, as Vonnegut’s mentions of Christianity are seldom stated. Religion does not have to be seen as only an ideology and references to God are not the necessity needed to create the theme of Religion – it appears through spirituality and communities which follow the same belief. The Thirty Years’ War of 1618 in ‘Mother Courage’, which emerged from a disagreement between Protestant and Catholic believers, is a distinct example of religious communities
... of all time, with a protagonist that is plagued with indecision, but spurred by a desire to avenge his father’s death. At the time of the play’s writing, religion was by far the largest influence on the lives of ordinary people, and the protagonist’s defiance of God for most of the play could only end in tragedy.
In America, the existence of so many different cultures and religions can inadvertently cause one religion to impose its values upon another religion. In Grace Paley’s “The Loudest Voice”, however, the school system directly imposed Christianity onto Shirley Abramowitz and other non-Christian students in the school. Teachers in the school tried to enforce Christianity onto the non-Christian children whenever and whichever way possible. The major illustration of this attempt of “brainwashing” was the production of a Christmas play performed mostly by Jewish students. This was an obvious attempt by the school to try to force the other students to learn the value and history of the Christian religion.
In the beginning of the movie Madea’s Family Reunion by Tyler Perry, we start off with Lisa waking up with flower pedals leading up to a bath with professional violinist playing in the background. What seems to begin as a story of richness and happiness soon becomes the opposite.
Early in the play, the reader is introduced to Mildred, a socialism major from a well-to-do family. Her main goal in life is to help the poor, or so she claims. When