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Essay on Women's role in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry was born in Chicago on May 19, 1930, the youngest of four children. Her family lived, at the time, on the Southside, in a neighborhood that was entirely black. For the duration of this era, segregation the enforced separation of whites and blacks was still legal, and widespread throughout the south. Northern states, including Hansberry's own Illinois, had no official policy of segregation, but were generally self-segregated along racial and economic lines.
Chicago was a striking example, carved, as it was addicted to strictly divided black and white neighborhoods. As a child, Hansberry's family became one of the first to move into a white neighborhood. When their neighbors rebelled, both with threats of violence and legal action, the Hansberrys defended themselves; Hansberry's father successfully brought his case all the way to the Supreme Court. Lorraine Hansberry wrote that she always felt the inclination to record her experiences. Her writing including A Raisin in the Sun is recognizably autobiographical. Hansberry was one of the primary playwrights to create realistic portraits of African-American life.
The characters in Lorraine Hansberry’s play are very significant in understanding the play. The characters are examples of they way Lorraine lived day by day her live when she was a kid. The characters and her way of keeping our interest with each one of them brought out the success of the play. They characters are very critical in understanding the play. There were four main characters that made the play a sellout, Lena, Ruth, Beneatha and Walter Lee.
Each one of these characters had a dream to try to accomplish. The Characters portray the plays meaning in the way the play evolved into a masterpiece. Lorraine Hansberry studied African history while working on A Raisin in the Sun. She incorporated her knowledge of the history and wanted to bring it over in to her play.....
