Troys brothers name in fences is Gabriel

Represents the sparring and quick verbal assault and defense.

What is boxing in the homecoming. Th character of joey was a boxer and in pinter plays there is
a wit and quick saying lines much like boxing match back and forth

A sickness afflicted character who wanted to refuse to be a victim is Prior walter in

angels in America. Kushners point was that he didnt want him to have his illness define
him for who he is. You can rise above sickness and a positive message that aids doesnt

have to kill everybody.

Takes over the family from dodge most likely tildens son. It is vince, vince comes in at
the end of play rips through the sceen door kicks bradleys fake leg and dodge gives the
house to him before dieing. The truth of the situation is not known maybe vince is the

child of incense but then whos bones are buried.

Represents hope seamlessness and a lack of bumping into eacho other. Ballroom dancing
in master Harold. Sam talks about how they move seamlessly around while in life you are

constantly bumping into situations and people.

Hes not my flesh and blood. My flesh and blood is buried in the backyard. Dodge from
buried child. The odd notion of truth people think its halles and tilden in the backyard but

shepard eludes that it may not be.

Marked by pauses, brutual language, and often unexpected violent turns. Pinteresque

used to describe plays that rely on this style.

Auteur someone who controls all aspects director who employed a combination of lights

lack of storyline and evocative techniques in his stage presentaions. Robert Wilson.
Represents troys past glory and the oppression of racisim. Baseball in fences.
A bitter struggle of man verus man in a cutthroat world. What is the struggle of the
salesman in glengarry glen ross

Talked about burying her hopes and dreams into her manonly to see it wither and wilt

who is rose?
Represents a lack of fertility in the land and within the family. What is the produce in the

back yard of buried child. It is a microcausim for America

I have known and been loved by the perfect woman rene gallimardfrom M butterfly
beautiful systems dying and falling apart: who is harper
its not a world of men. Roma when he is pissed off at the end of the play and says its

not a world of men but clockwatchers and beurocrats

Represents Americas unending struggle of racisim never stopping and never meeting any
type of satisfactory understanding. What is the myth of the flying dutchamn for barakas

Dutchman. The yth of the ship being unable to return to shore in a never ending cycle
Symbolizes the base and almost dirty nature of the character and what they are trying to

get away from

What is the earth promontory in mud. The y want to get out of it but they cant
Represents a tacky and fake setting in amets play. Chinese restraint sets the concept of

deceit its fake its deceptive the back handedness of the salesmen
In the face of drastic world conditions, this type of drama attempted to represent the
fracture, the disconnect, and the chaos is the theatre of the absurd. Pinter and beckett.

Trying to come to terms with the fracture in the world through theater.
Employs alienating techniques and historical distancing to push the audience to a critical
attidue. What are Brechtian stagin techniques. Cloud nine, angels in America, doubling of

characters and keeping you from emotionally identifying with characters.

Tempts with an apple is lula from Dutchman. She represents a temptress and the apple is

the forbidden fruit

Is a salesman that believes in doing what is right by you first who is roma. His speech is

all about doing what is right by you because no one else cant take care of yourself
Means to take another culture and fetishize it or stereotype it in a particular manner. What

is orientalisim. This is what m butterfly is all about.

Symbolizes keeping some people in and some people out. The fence in fences
Deep down there is a part of you not infected. The identity of illness in angels in America

how come you aint ever liked me? cory in fences

In maria Irene florze mud mae compares herself to this animal- starfish she reads about
how limbs get cut off and regrow represents like how life can tear you apart but you have

to grow from it
In fences the baseball

Dutchman Lula is seen as being a representation of a temptress. I like to imagine her as a siren.
She plays the sweet song for her prey and seduces them before she murders them. She wants to
trick Clay and bring out the inner animal that he is because of the color of his skin. She sees
him as trying to imitate a white man so over the course of the play and with her apples that
symbolize the forbidden fruit she bates Clay into becoming what she wants him to be and in
the end murders him in self defense.
In M. Butterfly we see a large degree of what is The kite in this play is representative of many
things. First it is a metaphor for the fragility and broken relationships that are seen among
different races in the past. The kite must be flown outdoors not indoors. We are more vulnerable
outdoors. When they used to fly the kite times were good but now it does not fly which
represents times being bad. There is also the issue of apartheid. Hally flies the kite on a white
bench and Sam knows he cannot sit on it. In all when the kite is flying all is well with the
relationship between Sam and Hally but when it cannot fly there is a break between the two of
them.
called Orientalism which means to take another culture and fetishize it or stereotype it in a
particular manner.

Employs alienating techniques and historical distancing to push the audience to a critical
attidue. What are Brechtian stagin techniques. Cloud nine, angels in America, doubling of
characters and keeping you from emotionally identifying with characters.

Caryl Churchill was influenced by Brecht in her play Cloud Nine by using his techniques of
alienation and historical distancing. This is seen by using one actor to play several roles, having a
woman play a man and vice-versa, or mixing of races. What this technique does so effectively is
it keeps the audience from being able to emotionally identify with the characters in the play.
Being true to yourself is not letting your problems define you for who you are. Kushner
exemplifies this for us with Harpers line deep down there is a part of you that isnt infected.
She says this to Prior while he is suffering from AIDS. What Harper is trying to tell him is that
his illness does not define him for who he is as a person. Deep down he is still the same man he
always was and he can still be that man. Your illness is not your identity. We see people who
struggle with their disabilities but still strive and do what was thought to be impossible because
they do not let it stop them from being who they truly are.
Troys constant view on life as always being the same and never changing for the better is an
outlook that Rose did not want to imprint on Cory as a child. Troy sees life as being the same for
Cory as it was for him and he wants Cory to know that life is hard. Rose believes that a new
generation is a new chance and that they can strive for a better life that the generation before
them didnt have. She does not want Cory to turn out like Troy. We see this at the end of the play
when Cory is talking about not going to Troys funeral and Rose compares his decisions to that
of Troys. She sees the sins of the father being present in the son. Cory decides to go and in turn
does not let the life his father had define the way that his life should be.

Represents hope seamlessness and a lack of bumping into eacho other. Ballroom dancing
in master Harold. Sam talks about how they move seamlessly around while in life you are
constantly bumping into situations and people.

This quote is important to the play because the dancing is seen as an escape from the hard
times in the real world. In life it is impossible to predict the future and avoid hardships when
they arise. In the play we see the issues of race being a heavy weight over the characters and how
Sam and Willie use their dancing as a way to escape from everything. While we are constantly
bumping into one another and running into problems dancing represents a seamless movement
where there are no collisions and life is fluid. There is a freeness in dancing that is beautiful to
Sam and he wishes he could feel that in life but he is unable to because of the color of his skin.
2. "I swear...it's not a world of men...it's not a world of men, Machine...it's a world of clockwatchers, bureaucrats, officeholders...what it is, it's a fucked-up world...there's no adventure to it. [Pause]
Dying breed. Yes it is. [Pause] We are the members of a dying breed."

--Roma, Glengarry Glen Ross

Romas quote is significant because the world he knows is a one where the dog eats the
dog. The world however is changing and that pisses him off. The times change but they get older
and watch it go by. Mamet places a distinct point on age in this play. The world is inherited by
the young in this play. It is seen with Shelly being the eldest one and not being able to perform at
the same level as Roma. Roma is a wise man and the best salesman at the firm and believes
firmly in the Darwinistic survival of the fittest. He believes that the only person who can do right
by you is you. No one is going to hold your hand and tell you it will be okay. You either need to
adapt and move on or crumble under the pressure but thats not how things are run anymore. The

new up and coming people are people who take orders and do as they are told. No longer does a
man work for himself or fight for himself. That is what the dying breed is the cutthroat life of a
salesman is hard but now everyone can do it and the hard workers who fend for themselves will
be backed into a corner with no way out.
The Rabbi is stating the fact that although he did not know Louiss grandmother personally he
knew her in a certain sense. She was the first generation of family to come to America. His
speech to me speaks about respecting your heritage and your elders and what they sacrificed to
make a new life for themselves. There is so much spoken in this play about identity and what
defines us for who we are and that is the real question. Could it be our heritage or where our
family has come from or is it what we make of our lives that was given to us by our ancestors.
In my opinion I think it leads back to that. We talk about how children are a reflection of their
parents. If a child is bad then they must have bad parents. It defines them and works the other
way around to. People could meet my parents and think that I must be a spitting image of them
and that is what they identify me as. We learn about people through the behaviors of their family
and in this speech the Rabbi is saying though I do not know this woman I have met her family
and have learned her heritage and the impact she has made. Whether learning the identity of
someone through their family is a right thing to do or not I suppose is the real question. But this
all harkens back to how we identify ourselves in this world.
Some characteristics we talked about in class that would fall under a category of postmodern are
subjectivity, fragmentation, and blend.