Today (Friday) we moved on to Act 2, the act when Troy's world seems to fall apart and the play progresses to its ending. The scenes we watched were really quite compelling.
At this point, we are almost a week away from the due date of the extended response to drama. Do you have your paper topic yet? If not, here are some ideas.
Is Troy a narcissist? Why? Why not? Be sure to define the qualities of a narcissist. Is a narcissist a more compelling protagonist for a play? Why? Why not?
Is Troy a good person, a bad person, or just a human being? Define your key terms.
What do you make of Rose's response to Troy's revelation that he and Alberta will be having a child? Why?
Did you expect this plot twist (Rose's responses or Troy's fathering a child with Alberta)? Why? Why not? How was this event foreshadowed in the play? (In other words, did August Wilson drop any clues?)
How does the film bring this part of the play to life?
What do you make of Troy walking out to an empty bar? Note that in the play he and Bono talk on the porch.
We also discussed the concept of orality: https://orality.net/about/what-is-orality/ http://neamathisi.com/literacies/chapter-1-literacies-on-a-human-scale/ong-on-the-differences-between-orality-and-literacy http://homepages.bw.edu/~rfowler/pubs/secondoral/oral.html
For information about orature, see this link: http://www.oralliterature.org/about/oralliterature.html
How does Troy's illiteracy affect him? How does it shape his character?
How did reading and watching more of Fences affect your thoughts on the other characters? Why?
How does Wilson's emphasis affect the play so far?
How might a female director handle Fences?
1 comment:
1. Rose reaction to Troy revelation of having a child with Alberta, she was shocked, disappointed and angry of Troy wasting her time, after all this years of scarifying her life and also her needs to make her family happy.
2. I think Troy found himself alone in the bar, he realized that he lost everything and including everyone in his life.
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