Act One Scene Two Flashcards
“[spraying insecticide into the cracks in the walls]”
Efforts of the Younger family reduce the impact of colonisation from white families upon their neighbourhood
Beneatha: “we’ve all got acute ghetto-itis”
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Asagai: “you mutilate it every week?”
Brutality of society’s whitewashing
Asagai: “the world’s most liberated women are not liberated at all”
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Mama: “once upon a time freedom used to be life- now it’s money”
Capitalist American Dream which permeated the 1950s post-WWII
Walter: “why can’t there never be no peace in this house then?”
Irony as house is a place of refuge from their hostile society
Mama: “we a people who give children life, not who destroys them”
Mama’s overriding desire to provide the best for her family despite the odds
Beneatha: “set fire to this building”
Violence as solution; reflective of Chicago race riots in 1919
“[she sets the headdress on haphazardly]”
Beneatha’s disconnect with her heritage
