Examples Of Nihilism In Fences

The Oppressive Nihilist

Troy Maxson, the hero of August Wilson's exemplary play, "Wall", is constantly battling with tolerating the progressions around him. Troy's childhood and individual disappointments have caused him to live as a skeptic whose narcissistic and narrow minded. Troy lives by his own standards and is not able to acknowledge the decisions of others that conflict with his own particular logic. "Fences" is presented in the late 50's amid a period when bigotry and separation was still endemic crosswise over America. Wilson starts the story with a look of history and presents the condition of Maxson's adolescence. "Troy was destined to a tenant farmer father who was disappointed by the way that each product took him further into obligation. The father knew himself as a disappointment and took it out on everybody, including Troy" (pg. 1). Growing up he immediately took in the estimation of work and the thought that a man assumes liability for his family regardless of how troublesome circumstances possibly. As a

He was not able to battle that reality that he was unsatisfied with life, along these lines he always rationalized to legitimize his activities. At the point when admitting to his wife, Rose, that he was engaging in extramarital relations with another lady and had gotten her pregnant, he said, "You can't locate a superior lady than Rose. In any case, appears like this lady simply adhered onto me where I can't shake her free. Presently she's stuck on for good" (pg. 63). He acted unaware of the circumstance as though he had no way out other than to undermine her. Troy had constantly discovered himself censuring others for his own charms instead of assuming liability and working towards change. He declined to trust that times in America were changing, thus he assembled a non-literal wall to disconnect himself from