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A Raisin in the Sun- by Lorraine Hansberry

A Raisin in the Sun

Hansberry 's dialogue , in fact , becomes a key driving force of the play 's ultimate revelatory impact on the audience . As the play progresses and the characters become more clearly defined with motivations that the audience can identify with (or despise ) the dialect of the play begins to attain a lyrical uniqueness -- a vocal music which was unlike any other play on the Broadway stage of the time

Lines such as "Seem like God didn 't see fit to give the black man nothing but

dreams (29 ) or " There is always something left to love . And if you ain 't learned that , you ain 't learned nothing (135 ) attain the status of aphorism in the context of the play and divulge important social and racial realities that , for most Americans in the mid-twentieth century , existed , if at all , as merely si-debar news articles or in some other abstract realization . Hansberry 's play , through its fierce and relentless realism , coupled with its themes of yearning and dreaming seemed to marry the "American ideal " to the "American nightmare " in a verbally original and thematically cathartic fashion , elevating the dialogue of racial issues in America to a place of cultural acceptance

By combining a realistic set with realistic dialogue , a kind of exoticism was reached by Hansberry , through the depiction of extreme poverty and want , which is a powerful force in granting the play unity of theme , place , and time in keeping with Aristotle 's theories of dramatic construction in his Poetics . This latter attribute helps ground the play in the traditional dramatic structure which off-sets the aforementioned "exoticism " of the play 's set and characters . Despite the reluctance for most Americans in the late 50 's and early 60 's to face the racially based challenges...

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