Raisin In The Sun By Lorraine Hansberry: Critical Response
Critical response: A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry The play falls under realism the stage design and setting is a representation of everyday life. The characters behaved, spoke, and dressed like ordinary people. This play brings the awareness of social and political problems, which inspires change. The characters of the cast represents real life personalities, which shapes the way they behave. The language used in the play is conversational. This play is also a multicultural play, which explores history with Afrocentrism.
In the play, the stage represents everyday life, which is a house where people live. This play made it clear that the space where people stay influence their life. This play also explained the fact that a house is a need everyone as to satisfy in life. Connecting this to Maslow theory of the hierarchy of needs. The lower needs which is psychological needs, is the motivating force in our lives this includes a house, food, and sleep. As seen in the play Walter wanted to satisfy this psychological need for himself and his family, which is, why he was so focus on starting a business and making money. In addition, his mother bought a house because she knew it was her family needed to satisfy. …show more content…
For instance, in the play, I understood Walter lee younger dreams but the way he wanted to achieve his dream was just money motivated. It was as if he did not think about things except making money that made him not to plan about incase things went wrong. At the same time I understood him he wanted a better life for his family. This also had an emotional impact on how I felt about all the things that happened to him loosening the money and feeling like the one who had failed in
In the play, the stage represents everyday life, which is a house where people live. This play made it clear that the space where people stay influence their life. This play also explained the fact that a house is a need everyone as to satisfy in life. Connecting this to Maslow theory of the hierarchy of needs. The lower needs which is psychological needs, is the motivating force in our lives this includes a house, food, and sleep. As seen in the play Walter wanted to satisfy this psychological need for himself and his family, which is, why he was so focus on starting a business and making money. In addition, his mother bought a house because she knew it was her family needed to satisfy. …show more content…
For instance, in the play, I understood Walter lee younger dreams but the way he wanted to achieve his dream was just money motivated. It was as if he did not think about things except making money that made him not to plan about incase things went wrong. At the same time I understood him he wanted a better life for his family. This also had an emotional impact on how I felt about all the things that happened to him loosening the money and feeling like the one who had failed in