Stage directions in this excerpt from Act II, Scene 1 of Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" add to the reader's understanding of the characters by providing information about their personalities and ways of being.
From the directions we can infer that Beneatha is a woman that likes to impress and get the attention of people. She seems to be shallow and conceited. She parades in front of Ruth to show of her new dress make her jealous. She makes a big entrance so that we "can see her thoroughly robed in the costume Asagai brought".
She is arrogant and self-center and has little regard for other people and their lives. We can see this when she "promenades to the radio and, with an arrogant flourish, turns off the good loud blues that is playing". She calls Ruth's music junk, being completely rude and incosiderate.
Ruth, on the other hand, is portrayed as a working woman, since, at the beginning of the excerpt she is "ironing <em>again</em>".
She appears to be a woman easily impressed, due to her reaction upon seeing Beneath's new dress: "she puts down the iron in fascination".
She is also potraited as someone submissive that does not complain about being trated poorly. This can been seen with her reaction to Beneatha's insults to her music. She does not respond, she just "goes to the phonograph and puts on a record and turns and waits ceremoniously for the music to come".
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In the short story "The Lady or the Tiger", the princess is in love with a man of inferior birth. Her father, a semi-barbaric king, is furious about their relationship. He decides the man should be judged by randomly choosing one of two doors. He can either choose the one where there is a tiger, and be killed instantly, or he can choose the one behind which a damsel awaits to marry him. This is the king's idea of a fair trial.
As the trial gets closer and closer, the narrator tells us of the agony the princess is facing. <u>She loves the man, so she does not want him to die. However, she fears he will be too happy if he opens the door to the damsel. It's as if she does not expect him to be faithful in his love for her, as if the happiness of not being killed by a tiger will automatically transform into love for the pretty girl behind the door. </u><u>Anyway, the princess has no expectations of continuing her relationship with him. He will either die or marry someone.</u>
<u>That realization is bound to influence her decision. However, the author does not make it clear what that decision is.</u> He leaves it for the readers to wonder what she has chosen to do. <u>She knows which door leads to which fate. Will she guide the man to the tiger out of jealousy? Or will she point him to the damsel to save his life? We cannot know for sure. But I dare say she, as a semi-barbaric princess (according to the narrator himself) would end up pointing him the door with the tiger.</u> If she will lose him anyway, at least she will not lose him to another woman. We must remember this princess is quite selfish and spoiled.
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acrid
acrid means unpleasantly bitter which applies to both taste/odor and manner/temper
its to polite and reserved. its boring for jordan and she wants to be where fun is
Hope this helps! (;
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The key factors that led to the beginning of the Renaissance were the bubonic plague and the ensuing demise of the feudal system, the expansion of trade routes, the revival of classical scholarship, and the rise of secular humanism.
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