William Shakespeare's Hamlet and August Wilson's Fences are built upon father-son relationships. Both plays show a connection between father and son that overrides any other power, whether fought for through murder or through something as simple as a cold-hearted attitude. While Claudius and Troy share selfish, lustful roles and refuse to realize the potential of a loved one because that would mean accepting their own misfortune, both characters will strive to maintain their ultimate goal of a life filled with power and deceit. Besides the obvious socioeconomic status differences between the two families in each play, there is a similar story told behind each but they are shown through different perspectives and to contrasting extents. In Hamlet, Claudius' character is developed into a shrewd and conniving one.
Starting with Chris Rock as Aaron, his portrayal of Daniel who was originally played by Matthew MacFadyen in the British version is a great clarification of the character. Aaron and Daniel are the main character whose father passes away leaving him to be the patriarch of the family. While both played the role with assurance, Rock as Aaron had more of a comedic flair than MacFadyen. As where MacFadyen played the role with a somber since of humor, Rock’s sarcasm and flippancy brought the part to a higher level. Rock’s portrayal is the way most people would react to the controlled chaos surrounding him.
Unlike Greek plays, where main characters were kings and nobles for they were thought to embody the whole community, modern tragedies present an average leader of a family, neither completely good nor completely evil, whose mistake leads to his self-destruction. Joe is a role model to his neighbourhood for he is a hard-working, decent man; it is easy to feel identified with him. We see how significant he is among his neighbours since even children have a sense of respect for him. We see this when little Bert says; “Except some kids from Thirtieth Street. They started kicking a can down the block, and I made them go away because you were sleeping”.
Single parents make up 7.8 percent of the entire military. (Powers, 2010) Being a single parent in the military does not make you exempt from duties that require you to be gone for long periods. As recent as February of this year, a single mother was discharge from the army because she had no one to care for her son. The military has a program set up called the family care plan, which ensures proper care of your child (ren) or other dependents while you are away on deployment or other duties. As the military continues to deploy to Afghanistan and Iraq, we continue to hear of single parents that failed to deploy because of childcare.
Eddies dad is not around any more because he left when he was a kid. Eddies dad lost his life we believe, and his mom never talks about his dad, but my mom always talks about my dad everyday.. She always says he a great man how she meet him. We hear nothing about eddie’s dad not what he looks like nothing. My mom says I look just like my dad. Eddie doesn’t have a man in his life other than coach who tries to guide him.
They didn’t have a Negro school at home, so I went up to Knoxville and lived with a cousin and went to school”, this was the answer of Doctor Charles Dunford when he is asked why he left home, but the truth hide something more painful and difficult to overcome. 30 years later Charles decided to go attend his college class reunion in Nashville, a class reunion that only last a week, than after the reunion Charles have a Call to Adventure “the reunion had lasted a week. As they packed for home, his father, in a far too offhand way, had suggeste . . .
He and Linda discuss their sons, whom Willy is quite disappointed in, especially Biff. In an effort to quell their father, Biff and Happy, their sons, decide to try and start a business together. Both propositions fail; Biff’s attempt at a loan is met with failure and Willy’s discussion with his boss goes awry. The three have dinner at a local restaurant, where Biff plans to tell his dad of his blunder. When Willy arrives, he refuses to listen to Biff, which angers him.
And every time he made a leap, Everybody fell asleep. And every time he ate his tie, Everyone began to cry. And Cloony could not make any money Simply because he was not funny. One day he said, "I'll tell this town How it feels to be an unfunny clown." And he told them all why he looked so sad, And he told them all why he felt so bad.
I tried going to alternative school while working and pregnant but that did not last but a semester either. I was to worried about what my child’s father was doing that I also quit going to that school. Six months after having my first child I ended up pregnant with my second one. I knew from then that I had no chance of ever going back. So I got married at 17 and started just playing the house wife and mom, till it came to me having to find a job.
I was always getting into more trouble and not doing anything I was supposed to. November 16, 2011 the minute my step mom told me he had passed away, that was it! That was the moment I changed my ways. The passing of Samuel Joseph changed my life. I didn’t care about anyone or anything; all I cared about was hanging out with my friends and having fun.