Manhood, to Troy, meant separating from his father because of conflict and abuse. The one attribute Troy respected and proudly inherited was a sense of responsibility.
Troy's father found Troy with a girl Troy had a crush on and severely beat Troy with leather reins. Troy thought his father was just angry at Troy for his disobedience, but proving Troy's father was even more despicable, his father then raped the girl. Troy was afraid of his father until that moment.
Emotionally, Troy has little attachment to his children. He takes little interest in the activities that his children love, like Lyons' musical career, and Cody's football career.
He left home when he was 14 after a confrontation with his abusive father. Troy fathered his first son, Lyons, and then spent 15 years in prison after a killing someone during a robbery. When the play opens in 1957, Troy is 53 years old and working as a garbage collector.
Troy and his father's relationship was not a very healthy one. Troy's father was a horrible one, Troy states “Sometimes I wish I hadn't known my daddy. He ain't care nothing about no kids.” (Wilson 991), this exemplifies how Troy will be affected as his father never truly cared for his existence.
Troy's father, like many Black people after the abolishment of slavery, was a failed sharecropper. Troy claims that his father was so evil that no woman stayed with him for very long, so Troy grew up mostly motherless.
Even though his father was hard on him, Troy recognizes that the man felt a duty to his family. He thinks his father probably felt trapped by this sense of duty. Even so, says Troy, his daddy was straight-up evil. The man was so bad that Troy's mother left when he was a little boy and never came back.
After Troy explains that he had an affair because he had been “standing in the same place for eighteen years” and felt disappointed in his life, Rose responds.
Troy has three kids in the play Fences. His first son, Lyons, was born while he was serving a fifteen-year prison sentence for murder. He met his second wife, Rose, after he was released from prison and had his second son, Cory. His third child is Raynell, who is the child he fathered with his mistress Alberta.
Glover said it wasn't that he wanted to run away from the character of Troy or Community, which he had great fun on, but because he wanted to give the story a solid ending. Of Dan Harmon, Glover said, "That's why he ended it, because he likes endings too."
From the beginning, Troy 's father was abusive to his mother and all of his siblings. Troy and his family worked hard on their father 's farm and endured his bitterness towards being a sharecropper. Troy states that his father was greedy and would put his own personal needs above the needs of the family.
The Iliad, the story of the Trojan War, offers several moral lessons to its readers, including the importance of leaders treating their soldiers with respect, the importance of accepting apologies, and the need for respecting family bonds.
Not only did he cheat on his wife, he went fathered a child with somebody else. Wilson really keeps the surprises coming with this revelation. We pretty much knew there was an affair going on, but we had no idea about this. Rose feels like Troy has betrayed his brother Gabriel by putting him into a mental institution.
Troy's tragic flaw/hamartia is his failure to do the right things in his personal life. He cheats on Rose, for pleasure. He destroys Cory's dreams for his own personal reasons. He ignores warning signals from his friends and family.
“Fences” is a film about how our environment shapes us, and how, no matter how noble their intentions, our parents can't help but mess us up in some fashion, just as their parents had done for them. This is our legacy as humans.
Wilson's message is that the identity of the blacks needs to be protected by as steady as fences meant to protect what they surround. On the other hand, the blacks need to build up fences so that their identity could be protected from the whites.
Priam is killed during the Sack of Troy by Achilles' son Neoptolemus (also known as Pyrrhus). His death is graphically related in Book II of Virgil's Aeneid.
Cassandra, in Greek mythology, the daughter of Priam, the last king of Troy, and his wife Hecuba.
Menelaus and Helen rule in Sparta for at least ten years; they have a daughter, Hermione, and (according to some myths) three sons: Aethiolas, Maraphius, and Pleisthenes. The marriage of Helen and Menelaus marks the beginning of the end of the age of heroes.
The play reaches its climax when Troy's affair is revealed, and his wife Rose and son Cory must decide between forgiveness or resentment. Rose forgives Tory and raises his mistresses's baby as her own, while Cory struggles to forgive his father for his multiple infractions.
Although Troy still loves Rose, after eighteen years of marriage, he takes her for granted. Bono is trying to restore the reverence Troy had for Rose in their early years together.
While Troy can be sexually reckless to the point of cheating and impregnating another woman, Rose can't even leave her house without good reason, to avoid the stereotype of the African American woman as sexually wicked.
Troy's death allows his family, especially Cory, to heal. Troy triumphs over Death because he never lets fear of it control his life.
Because Troy refuses to believe that professional sports might treat his son better than they treated him, he holds Cory back in order to protect him from the disappointment and discrimination that Troy endured.
22) On page 98, Rose admits that her mistake was not forcing Troy to make room for her in their lives/marriage: "That was my first mistake. Not to make him leave some room for me. For my part in the matter."