THEMES, LANGUAGE AND STYLE IN THE PLAY-1

LITERATURE IN ENGLISH SSS1 FIRST TERM

WEEK FIVE

THEMES, LANGUAGE AND STYLE IN THE PLAY

CONTENT

REFERENCE

• Exam Reflection in Literature- in-English by Sunday OlatejuFaniyi.
• Exam Reflection in Literature-in-English (Prose and Drama) by Sunday OlatejuFaniyi. 
• Fences by August Wilson.
• Look Back in Anger by John Osborne.

THEMES, LANGUAGE AND STYLE IN THE PLAY

Blackness and Race RelationsTheme Analysis
Themes and Colours

Set in Pittsburgh in the 1950s, Fences explores the experience of one black family living in the era of segregation and a burgeoning black rights movement, exposing, at the heart of its characters’ psychology, a dynamic between the inner world of a black community and the expanse of white power around it.

The fence which Troy gradually builds…