The novel that I am going to discuss is a novel that changed my life, and also that was taken to sum it up completely. As a piece of evidence it proved, many respects, to be my downfall; to make sure that it could no longer be denied that I...

Set in the 1950s, August Wilson’s famous play Fences is a masterful work that illustrates the effects of racism and segregation that African Americans faced in the pre-Civil Rights Era. Fences’ protagonist Troy is a man who has been denied his own version of the American Dream through the institutional...

In a tragedy, there is some sort of sadness that occurs. Often the archetype for a tragedy involves a fallen hero. This is a tragic character because for all reasons the character is a good person. Yet, bad things happen to the hero. Tragedies usually end with more tragedy. This...

Missy Dehn Kubitschek, in “August Wilson’s Gender Lesson,” argues that “Fences” is meant to be nothing more than another African American play from the past two decades that works to examine the gendered interactions between men and women in the African American community, showing how each of the different genders...