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- 2006.8
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This essay aims at proving the openendedness in August Wilson's The Piano Lesson. The criticism on The Piano Lesson has been extremely concentrated on the completed denoument because Boy Willie and his elder sister, Berniece physically and spiritually end up in exorcising James Sutter's ghost and keep their heirloom, that is, their piano intact. However, their problems remain unsolved till the end. This essay will critically analyze Boy Willie and Berniece and point out some unsolved problems concerning them.
Boy Willie has a firm sense of pride in his racial and ethnic identity. And he shows no fear and hesitation in wrestling with Sutter's ghost. However, it is not clear to the end whether he overcomes the misunderstanding of the significance of Boy Charles's noble death, the partial understanding of the value of the piano, and the attachment to the land based on the naive American Dream. Though he ends up in deciding to return to the South where racism is still prevalent, it is not certain he will keep his racial and ethnic pride and sensibly cope with the harsh reality.
Berniece fully understands the value of the piano that can't be reducible to money. And it is Berniece's invocation of her ancestors that makes Boy Willie's life-and-death struggle against Sutter's ghost victorious. Finally, she overcomes the fear of waking the ancestors' ghosts which dwell in the piano. However, it is not clear till the end that she corrects her narrow-minded views on the men of the Charles family and on the education of her daughter, Maretha. Besides, it is extremely difficult for her to reconcile her religion, Christianity and her relationship with Avery, prospective clergyman with Africanness represented by her communion with her ancestors. Therefore The Piano Lesson can be viewed as an openended dramatic work dealing with controversy on the cultural identity of Afro-Americans and inducing the audience to search for the ways to establish the unbiased historical perspective and the determined cultural identity.
Boy Willie has a firm sense of pride in his racial and ethnic identity. And he shows no fear and hesitation in wrestling with Sutter's ghost. However, it is not clear to the end whether he overcomes the misunderstanding of the significance of Boy Charles's noble death, the partial understanding of the value of the piano, and the attachment to the land based on the naive American Dream. Though he ends up in deciding to return to the South where racism is still prevalent, it is not certain he will keep his racial and ethnic pride and sensibly cope with the harsh reality.
Berniece fully understands the value of the piano that can't be reducible to money. And it is Berniece's invocation of her ancestors that makes Boy Willie's life-and-death struggle against Sutter's ghost victorious. Finally, she overcomes the fear of waking the ancestors' ghosts which dwell in the piano. However, it is not clear till the end that she corrects her narrow-minded views on the men of the Charles family and on the education of her daughter, Maretha. Besides, it is extremely difficult for her to reconcile her religion, Christianity and her relationship with Avery, prospective clergyman with Africanness represented by her communion with her ancestors. Therefore The Piano Lesson can be viewed as an openended dramatic work dealing with controversy on the cultural identity of Afro-Americans and inducing the audience to search for the ways to establish the unbiased historical perspective and the determined cultural identity.
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[학술지(정기간행물)] - / 2003 / Lillian Hellman and August Wilson:Dramatizing a New American Identity
[학술지(정기간행물)] - / 2000 / The Dialectics of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson 52 : 361 ~ 379
[학술지(정기간행물)] - / 2001 / August Wilson on Playwriting:An Interview 35 : 93 ~ 102
[학술지(정기간행물)] - / 1992 / The Search for Male Identity in Contemporary American Drama
[학술지(정기간행물)] - / 1994 / From the Local to the Mythical in August Wilson : 89 ~ 104
[학술지(정기간행물)] - / 2000 / The Dialectics of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson 52 : 361 ~ 379
[학술지(정기간행물)] - / 2001 / August Wilson on Playwriting:An Interview 35 : 93 ~ 102
[학술지(정기간행물)] - / 1992 / The Search for Male Identity in Contemporary American Drama
[학술지(정기간행물)] - / 1994 / From the Local to the Mythical in August Wilson : 89 ~ 104
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