N&C 20.11 (scenes 3-14)

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 3

Scenes 3-14

What is society like in the play?

Marginalisation

to put or keep (someone) in a powerless or unimportant position within a society or group

Impact on:

- Health

- Economics (equal opportunities)

What is segregation?

Segregation

Segregate = separate two groups to keep them physically apart from each other -> housing, education, services

Laws in 18th and 19th century America because people believed black and white couldn't coexist

Apartheid in South Africa 

Lynching

A mob is a large, disorganized, and often violent crowd of people.

Lynching - If a group of people lynch someone, they kill that person without letting them have a trial, especially by hanging, because they believe that the person has committed a crime.

Racial slurs - insults based on race

In the play: Blankers - Daggers.

Little Rock Nine

The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. They then attended after the intervention of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Holocaust

Between 1941 and 1945, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi

Germany systematically murdered six million

Jewish people. They also murdered another five

million non-Jewish people. These five million

included Eastern Europeans, ethnic minorities,

the mentally ill and the disabled. In short, all

who Hitler and his collaborators deemed to be

‘inferior.’

How is discrimination presented in act 1 - scenes 3-14?

The Power of Language

"It's just a word"

p. 21

p. 23 - effect

(to audience)

The Liberation Militia

What do they want and try to achieve?

p. 26

Representation

p. 32

A 2002 study found that people estimated that 40% of those who committed violent crimes who were African American when the actual rate was 29%. The general public overestimates black participation in crimes such as burglaries drug sales and juvenile crimes by somewhere between 20 to 30 percent. For Hispanics, Americans have estimated that about 27% of violent crime is committed by Hispanics. And that figure actually exceeds the proportion of Hispanics in the prison population, that's 17%.

Final scene

Inequality

• Segregation
• Marginalisation
• Discrimination 
• Language
• Racial slurs
• Violence, aggression
• Othering: they vs us
• Representation

Task

Choose Callum, Sephy, Callum, Lynette or Jude.

Imagine you are that character and you have a spare 5 minutes to write a diary entry about what has happened to you on one of the days in scenes 3-14.

• How do you feel?
• How do you feel about the people around you?
• What are you going to do next?