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Lorraine Hansberry, 2005.
A critique of Adrienne Rich's article on the author Lorraine Hansberry.
1,044 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 22.95
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This paper examines how in her article "The Problem With Lorraine Hansberry", Adrienne Rich summarizes Lorraine Hansberry's life and work in her perspective as a white, lesbian, feminist writer. It looks at how she relates to Hansberry as a feminist writer and how she feels she is not so equipped to deal with the racial issues that are found in Hansberry's work "A Raisin In The Sun".
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"Adrienne Rich still has many unanswered-and unanswerable questions about Lorraine Hansberry such as: "What did she dream of being free to write should she gain validation from the American white male establishment?" "What did it mean to be one of the tiny handful of black women artists who have found it possible to have their works published, performed, or seen?" and "Where would Hansberry have placed herself, had she lived till now, in relation to the feminist movement of the present?" Rich will continue to see Hansberry as "a problem and a challenge." She is waiting for a black feminist to gain access to Hansberry's unpublished work and help us see her in her "fullest political context" (Adrienne Rich pg. 253-54). "
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Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun", 2008.
A look at how Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" offers a glimpse at the social problems and resulting attitudes of African Americans during the 1950s.
1,055 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 23.95
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This essay examines the play "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry. The paper discusses the political history of the 1950s and 1960s and the relationship between the period of time in which the family in "A Raisin in the Sun" lived and the events that unfolded in the play are discussed. The paper concludes that "A Raisin in the Sun" is truly a window into the lives of African Americans in the 1950s.
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"Beneatha seeks to become a doctor in an era where there were few female doctors, and on top of that even less African-American doctors. In that aspect, she is trying to push the limits of the glass ceiling that society has placed upon her. In addition to what society places on her, Beneatha has to deal with the limitations that her family imposes on her; in one scene, she expresses her atheistic beliefs to her very traditional mother and is slapped and made to apologize."
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Lorraine Hansberry?s "A Raisin In the Sun", 2005.
A summary and review Hansberry's story about the lives and times of one black family in 1950s.
968 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 21.95
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This paper introduces and analyzes Lorraine Hansberry's play "A Raisin in the Sun". The paper explains that this story, much like Langston Hughes' poem of the same name is about freedom, pride, blacks and their dreams. The paper summarizes the story and explains that the main theme of the story is dreams, as dreams are what keeps a person or family alive and help them look to the future.
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"Mama decides to give Walter the money. This is the victory for Walter's dream since Mama feels he has always had to face unfortunate circumstances. Even though the rest of family doesn't approve of this, Mama is willing to take this risk for the love of her son. She knows that her son is suffering from broken dreams. The scene where Walter is shown talking to his son Travis is particularly poignant. He promises Travis that they will one day own a Chrysler that is "elegant" rather than "flashy," and will also employ the services of a gardener. He also predicts that once Travis goes to college, his father would "hand you the world!" (625)."
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"A Raisin In The Sun" ( Lorraine Hansberry ), 1999.
Discusses the play's themes, plot, characters, values, social and racial views.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 8 sources, £ 34.95
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"The purpose of this research is to examine Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun. The plan of the research will be to set forth the pattern of ideas and events in the play and then to discuss the means by which this pattern is elaborated in the action, as well as the sociopolitical context in which the playwright's intended effect of the play on the audience can be most readily identified.
The action of A Raisin in the Sun in general involves what people want and what they are willing to pay to get it. Indeed, describing what the characters want very much describes what the play is about. The Youngers, an extended black family, share the dream of escaping their two-bedroom Chicago tenement and everything it represents. How the dream should be fulfilled now that an insurance legacy is coming their way marks the main level of ..."
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Racism in Lorraine Hansberry's Plays, 1996.
Examines realistic, optimistic, non-revolutionary depiction of racial conflict in "A Raisin in the Sun" & two more dramas.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 3 sources, £ 60.95
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" This study will examine racial conflict as it is portrayed by Lorraine Hansberry in three plays, A Raisin in the Sun, What Use Are Flowers? and The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window. As an intelligent black woman and artist born in 1930 and dying in 1965, Hansberry is clearly aware of the significance of racism in the United States, and she includes racial bigotry and stereotyping as important elements of each of these three plays, either directly or indirectly.
However, Hansberry is an optimist, not a revolutionary. Her work leans toward the reassuring rather than the disturbing. Her characters, for the most part, live in a world which still contains the salvation and healing that love and personal development can bring, even in the face of racial and other obstacles."
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Lorraine Hannsberry's "Raisin in the Sun", 1997.
This paper describes Lorraine Hannsberry's "Raisin in the Sun" and a poem ?Harlem? by Langston Hughes included in the book (and quoted in full in the paper).
945 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 21.95
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This paper discusses that both Hansberry's book "A Raisin in the Sun" and the included poem ?Harlem,? by Hughes are written by African-American writers. The author states that both focus on the question of what happens to ?a dream deferred.? The paper states that Hansberry, through the characters within her drama, answers this question in the same manner as does Hughes.
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"Hughes? poem, which asks if a deferred dream will ?...fester like a sore-- / and then run?? can easily be applied to Walter?s dream of having a better life, which festers inside him. In the first act of the Hansberry?s drama, Ruth points out to Walter that his thoughts are always focused on one thing: his dream. Her speech to her husband is an indication that his dream is festering and not going away."
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?A Raisin in the Sun? by Larraine Hansberry, 2001.
A discussion of the themes of obsession and materialism in the play ?A Raisin in the Sun? by Larraine Hansberry.
1,225 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 26.95
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This paper is a critical analysis of ?A Raisin in the Son? by Larraine Hansberry, the story of a black family's struggle to break out of the poverty that is preventing them from achieving their dreams. Using the components of setting, imagery, and characterization, the theme of man versus society is analyzed and the reader is shown that if you are not careful, becoming obsessed with money can cost you your dreams.
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"Great care is taken in the presentation of Walter?s character, which helps the reader to see how easy it is for him to become obsessed with money and nearly pay for it with the loss of his dreams. In the play, all Walter thinks about and talks about is money. When Walter complains to his wife that she will not listen to him, in exasperation she tells him, ?Honey, you never say nothing new? (1875). Walter Younger is thirty-five years old and is a limousine driver. He is unhappy with his job and is desperately seeking an opportunity to improve his home situation and his standing."
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Theme of Respect in "A Raisin in the Sun", 2008.
An analysis of the metaphorical significance of the title of Lorraine Hansberry's play, "A Raisin in the Sun" and the theme of respect.
1,164 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 25.95
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This paper discusses the plot and themes of Lorraine Hansberry's play, "A Raisin in the Sun." It discusses the metaphorical significance of the title of the play and how it relates to the plot and characters that are portrayed in the work. The paper specifically focuses on the theme of respect, both giving and receiving, as the key to understanding Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun."
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"What we must seek out and learn to understand about the Youngers is that every action they take and every stage of their development is predicated upon their level of respect for themselves and each other. In the beginning, respect is hard to come by, and what there is is falsely laid. But after the loss of the money, the family is forced to take real stock of themselves and what they realize is that their perception of being in a hopeless situation, of having their best potentials in life disappear, is actually totally incorrect. Mama knows this, and in the act of buying their way out of the Black neighborhoods, she is liberating them from their lack of self-respect, they are proving their ability to be independent."
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?Raisin in the Sun?, 2005.
This paper examines the cultural context of Lorraine Hansberry's play "Raisin in the Sun".
1,360 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 28.95
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This paper explains that, on the surface, the plot of the play "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry is merely about an African-American family's struggle to get out of the ghetto on Chicago's Southside; however, a deeper examination of the work demonstrates the author's utilization of numerous themes and complex characters, which require multiple levels of analysis: African-American identity, social status and racial challenges within the intricacies of universal human nature. The author points out that hints of Hansberry's childhood surface throughout the play and have clearly influenced her thoughts and beliefs: Father waged a legal battle for the right to purchase a home in a previously all-white neighborhood that reached the Supreme Court, "Hansberry vs. Lee", which they won, but the family was subjected to vicious physical attacks. The paper relates that the title of the play refers to the protagonist Mama's longing to escape the ghetto so that her children can be raised in the sunlight of a better neighborhood and thus better education.
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"Another way that Hansberry illustrated her world through her work was in her definition of universality. Indeed, prior to the publishing of the play, universality was monadic in its conception and application. It had been developed and applied to mean whiteness rather than including the diversity of modern-day society. Moreover, black art separated itself from the mainstream by isolating discussions of social problems from racial issues. However, Hansberry conversely sought to concurrently consider "social significance and racial consciousness." Her attention to details opened the door for white audiences into an understanding of black experiences that made those experiences understandable and relevant. The inclusion of the black experience within the framework of the human experience forced a redefinition that opened the term universality to include the minority voice. Author James Baldwin articulates this milestone, saying "never before in American theater history has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on stage.""
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"A Raisin in the Sun", 2002.
A review of Lorraine Hansberry?s play, "A Raisin in the Sun".
1,301 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 6 sources, MLA, £ 27.95
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This paper examines how Lorraine Hansberry?s play, "A Raisin in the Sun", is a dramatic tour de force and was one of the more important developments in American dramatic literature in the second half of the 20th century. It looks at how her moving play focuses on the domestic life of the Younger family as they decide what to do with a check that they have received after the death of Walter Lee?s father. It shows how, from the very beginning of the play, Hansberry creates a tone that sets the stage for the later dramatic action and how the play is, ultimately, a meditation on how the human spirit is able to rebound after our dreams have been destroyed. It analyzes how Hansberry reveals the specific dreams of each character in the play and how, in each case, their dreams are disappointed in some strange and sad fashion.
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"All of the Youngers do have important, although different dreams. Beneatha dreams of going to medical school, Mama dreams of moving into a new house, and Walter Lee wants to open a liquor store. The problem is that the amount of money that the family has is finite and can only serve to fulfill some, and not all, of the Younger?s dreams. Walter Lee?s dream has a particular significance in relation to his manly pride, and the failure of that dream is terrible. However, ?By the end of the play, they learn that the dream of a house is the most important dream because it unites the family,? and it is through this common dream that the Youngers realize their true strength (?Themes, Motifs, and Symbols?)."
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?A Raisin in the Sun?, 2002.
A review of Lorraine Hansberry's play "A Raisin in the Sun".
749 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 16.95
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This paper examines Lorraine Hansberry's play "A Raisin in the Sun" about Walter the resentful patriarch of the family who acts out certain attitudes affecting the black community in his time. It looks at how Hansberry clearly writes from her own experience, the family she writes about exists in a specific time period--the 1950s--and a specific milieu--the south side of Chicago. It shows how The Younger family is on the verge of escaping from the ghetto, with each family member having his or her own dream and how this dream begins with the desire to achieve the American dream. It discusses how by the end of the play the seamy reality of that dream has been exposed and the family has shifted to a celebration of its own value system rather than aspiring to emulate white society.
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"The kind of experience the Youngers have leads them to a spiritual and familial regeneration, and they transcend their ghetto not by moving to the suburbs but by understanding themselves and their place in black society. The prevailing racism has left the Youngers with a feeling of inferiority they try to overcome. The anger that such treatment creates is subdued in this family. The one vital element in the Younger family that sets them apart from much of the black experience today is the fact that they are, in the end, a family. The breakdown of the family in the ghetto is much discussed today. The Youngers have stayed together, something difficult even in the 1950s and something which shows them as atypical. Hansberry is not painting a false picture, and she is promoting the idea that family can help solve some of the problems faced in a racist society."
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The American Dream in Literature.
This paper discusses the "American Dream" as seen in the male characters in Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" and Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman".
4,125 words (approx. 16.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 69.95
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This paper explains that Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" and Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" reflect the painful aspects of the American Dream by allowing the reader to understand the complications which arise as people plan their lives and set out to reach their dreams. The author points out that the plays contain elements of personal tragedy: (1) Hansberry's Walter Younger is able to turn his negative experience around and learn from it but (2) Miller's Willy Loman lives his entire life misled by his own misconceptions about his dream. The paper relates that each play represents very real segments of society, which help us understand the American Dream through different eyes: Walter Younger gives the reader insight into how African American men in the 1950s saw and pursued their dreams, and Willy Loman provides insight into how white men in the 1940s might have attempted to achieve their dreams.
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"We get a glimpse of Walter's dream early in the play when he is arguing with Ruth. He tells her that Charlie Atkins is grossing $100,000 a year now and she could not be on his side for just a little while and support him joining Charlie in the dry-cleaning business. Walter also knows that his key to success is getting his mother to support him as well. This is part of his mistake--he is trying to get everyone to be on his side rather than going about starting a business and doing things the hard way. He also tries to get Ruth to convince his mother that his idea with Willy is not a "fly-by-night proposition". Walter also expresses his skepticism about becoming rich when he tells Ruth, "Baby, don't nothing happen for you in this world 'less you pay somebody off!" When Mama tells Walter that she has no intention of giving him any money to invest in the liquor business, he tries to manipulate her with guilt."
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"Raisin in the Sun" and "The Piano Lesson", 2002.
An analysis of the theme of the black experience in Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" and August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 8 sources, £ 27.95
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This analyzes two plays as expressions of the black experience in America, while focusing on the characters and symbolism in these plays. The plays are Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" and August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson". The literary work by August Wilson reflects the painful past and anticipated future of the African American race whereas Hansberry's play shows how an African-American family is united in love and pride as they struggle to overcome poverty and harsh living conditions in the midst of the 20th century.
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Lena Younger, 2005.
An analysis of the character of Lena Younger in Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun".
1,250 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 10 sources, MLA, £ 26.95
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Mama Lena Younger is a domestic worker and matriarch of the Younger family in Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun". This paper examines how Lena is characterized as the stereotypical image of the asexual, self-sacrificing mother. It also attempts to show how Lena is not only the matriarch, but is also the revolutionary who sends her children do battle in the civil rights movement.
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"The strength of Lena as a matriarch is her blessing as well as her curse. Mama cleans house and never complains about it. She knows that it is something that needs to be done and wants her family to feel comfortable. She would do anything for her family at any cost. The strength enables her to endure the indignity of domestic work, in caring for her family, but it also frequently the cause of conflict within the family. The zeal she has for making sure that her family is morally upright carries the risk of stunting the emotional growth of all of them. She dominates her adult children, all of whom live under her crowded roof, and decides, without consulting them, to purchase a house with the $10,000 insurance benefit paid on her husband's death."
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