1/12/2023 0 Comments Fences monologue![]() Wanting to keep her family close to her, and the integrity of its bonds intact, Rose is crushed when she learns that Troy has betrayed her and the private, enclosed space of protection she envisions as the relationship they vowed to sustain and protect. Rose, however, believes in preserving the bonds which hold her family together, as embodied in her wish for a fence to border her home. In contrast, Troy gives into his desires even when they take him beyond his commitment to the family, as we see in his affair with Alberta. He and his father are constantly at odds, because of his fathers resentment over the possibility of Corys success. ![]() He is an African American teenager living in the late 1950s, who aspires to become a professional football player. Rose is also characterized by her devotion to her family, and her willingness to sacrifice her desires to be the best wife and mother she possibly can, and provide the most love she can muster. FENCES, by August Wilson Cory is the son of Troy and Rose Maxson. When Troy tries to say that he met the Grim Reaper and wrestled with him, Rose decodes his fantasy, and reveals that he’s talking about when he contracted pneumonia. While Troy is prone to telling tall tales about his life, Rose always corrects him and translates his fictions into the actual acts they represent. Rose largely serves as the voice of reason for her husband. While Troy discourages Cory’s dream of playing football, Rose supports her son’s ambitions, and tries to convince her husband that times have changed since he played sports-that Cory’s skin color will not bar him from a future in sports, like it might have in the past. ![]() In opposition to Troy’s toughness and disrespect for Cory’s feelings and opinions, Rose is a source of love and understanding. This monologue is delivered by Rose in the Broadway play 'FENCES' written by August Wilson, now starring Denzel Washington and Viola Davis. Wife to Troy and mother of Cory, Rose represents the maternal gentleness of the Maxson household. And it didn't take me no eighteen years to find out the soil was hard and rocky and it wasn't never gonna bloom. ![]()
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