...The protagonist of Fences, Troy is a man whose failed dreams make him prone to believing in self-created illusions. Troy begins the play by entertaining Bono and Rose with an epic story about his struggle with a personified Death. Another example of Troy's inability to live in the real world is his denial to his best friend, Bono about the reality of his extramarital affair with Alberta. Fences is largely Troy's story. What all of the play characters have in common is a complicated relationship with Troy. Troy's character creates each and every conflict with everyone else in Fences. Troy instigates conflict as a result his inability to accept other's choices in life when they differ from his own philosophy. It has to be noted that Troy Maxson isn't a bad man....
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...In the play, Fences, by August Wilson, Troy Maxson, an African American, still struggles over what he has been through, not getting equal rights as white people. He is still living in the past and is not accepting the fact that the world is changing for the better. Troy is a harsh person, he is very strict, but he wants what is best for his family. Troy Maxson could have been a great baseball player but was not because of racism, yet that did not stop him from fighting against it and thus he can be considered a tragic hero. Troy was an astonishing baseball player. He could have gone far into his career, he was one of the best players “ain’t but two men ever played baseball as good as [him]”(9). Although he was a great player, racial discrimination prevented him from playing. Troy would be benched the entire game and not allowed to play. This had a great impact on him and the way he raises his children. He does not allow them to play sports because he does not want the same thing to happen to them as it did to Troy....
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...In August Wilson’s film Fences, the main character Troy Maxon works as a sanitation worker in 1950 Pittsburgh, this was the time of the Civil rights movement. Bitter that baseball's color barrier, kept him from following his dreams when he was younger lead Maxson on taking out his frustrations on his loved ones. Fences investigates the experience of one black family compelled to characterize their reality regarding how it's restricted by a racist system of white social and economic power. In Fences, race, baseball and death motif struck me to discuss how Wilson used it to develop Troy’s character and choices throughout the film. The film was based in the 1950s, when segregation was going on. When black people could not work certain position...
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