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| Project id | 1009847 |
|---|---|
| Subject area | Biology |
| Document type | Essay |
| Words | 1051 |
What should you do with their heritage, and how should it be put to work? In the play "The Piano Lesson", the Charles' family faces this query, also struggles to locate the solution. The family's heritage is in the form of a piano. On the piano are all carvings of the ancestors. Both main characters which are having a conflict over the piano are both Berniece and Boy Willie. Boy Willie wants to sell the violin so that he could add the proceeds of the sale into the proceeds of selling watermelon's and purchase some property from "Sutter". Berniece doesn't want to market the piano since it holds the blood and memories that stains its timber (Gale, 2000, p255). She will not play the piano and retains its background from her daughter in fear of calling up the spirits that might lie within the piano. The principal symbol of the play is that the 137-year-old piano, an object that holds a secret to the family history. It takes on numerous meanings through the duration of its life. It was carved to make Miss Ophelia happy, the piano's wooden characters indicate the interchangeable nature of slavery. As Doaker notes, who is Berniece and Boy willie's uncle, "Now she had her piano and her niggers too." (ACT I, p741) The slave is the master's present and accessory. The piano "visibly records the lost lives of Berniece and Boy Willie's ancestors, and it's the only concrete link remaining between present and past" (Galens 2000). The piano also becomes a herculean effort to keep your household together. It is also subsequently the physical record of the household's history. Boy Charles specifically knows the carvings as narrative. As Doaker recalls: "state it had been the story of our entire family and so long as Sutter had it he had us. Say we was still in captivity." (Act I, p741) It may seem like Be...
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