Responsibility

 Responsibility

INTRO In the play FENCES by August Wilson, Troy has many things that are his responsibility. Those responsibilities was more because he had to than of his own will. As for raising Cory, he says “** I owe a responsibility to you!” (I.iii.pg38) **” to Cory, and that’s actually the reason for every responsibility in his life. He owes a responsibility to his children—Raynell, Cory, and Lyons. He owes them because they’re his children and he brought them to life. He has to raise them and support them with shelter, food, and money. As for Alberta, he owes her because the baby she’s giving birth to is his. As for his brother, Gabriel, it is because that they are bothers and Troy takes Gabriel’s money. Everything he does is because he feels obliged to do, he feels he is responsible, but not necessarily out of love. Wilson uses these responsibilities to show the character is a person who does things that he thinks he "has to", doing his responsibilities most of the time, and at the same time reveals his lack of the sense of love. ** 1.Troy's responsibility to the younger generation TS-It is more the conviction of Troy that he owes the children responsibility after giving them life than love the reason he raises his children.

Troy’s responsibility to Cory ** 
 * ** “Like you? […] You are the biggest fool I ever saw. [...] It's my job. It's my responsibility!” You understand that? A man got to take care of his family. [...] cause you my son. You my flesh and blood. Not cause I like you! Cause it’s my duty to take care of you. I owe a responsibility to you!” (I.iii.pg38) – ** 
 * - The bond that keeps the father and the son close together is only the blood that they share as a "Maxson". 
 * The one and only reason that Max does everything that he has been doing for the past 18 years for Cory is that Cory is his “flesh and blood”. 
 * This is responsibility that he has to carry along with him at all times and forces him to take care of Cory. 
 * It seems that Troy is more “obliged” to raise Cory instead of wanting or because of love.

**Troy ****’s responsibility to Raynell: ** >> >> >>   ** 2.Troy's responsibility to a lover TS-It's because Troy owes his lover the happiness and the baby that he owes the responsibility to his lover.
 * ** She’s my daughter, Rose. My own flesh and blood. I can’t deny her no more than I can deny them boys. **
 * The relationship between Raynell and Troy is clearly pretty much the same as the relationship between Cory and Troy---both are Troy’s flesh and blood, and this is a reason Troy can’t leave Raynell alone. It’s actually quite nice seeing Troy being soft small with the baby after the impression he gave the readers as a totally violent and harsh man. Seems like snow falling to the ground, cold, but soft and beautiful. The responsibility and the soft feeling Troy developed to baby Raynell together are quite the nicest things that can be seen in Troy throughout the whole play. But still, Raynell is his daughter. And again he takes care of Raynell because she's his respoinsibility, and he has to. Despite its seemingly softness, the weather is still cold.

** **Troy ****’s responsibility to Alberta: ** <span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(246, 44, 224)">
 * ** -I'm going over to the hospital to see Alberta. pg74 **<span style="font-family: 宋体">
 * Alberta is going to have his baby, and he feels his responsibility to go to the hospital and check on them. This is actually a very responsible thing for him to do. Throughout out the play it may be hard to tell sometimes whether Troy really loves Alberta or not, and it seems more he had this affair since Alberta made him feel happy and laughed more. Here it mainly show that it's about responsibility.-- Alberta is in the hospital, and this is because of Troy. From some perspective Troy owes her in this way, and this is how he owes Alberta a responsibility <span style="font-family: 宋体">

**<span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(246, 44, 224)">3.Troy ****<span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(246, 44, 224)">’s responsibility to the family as a whole: TS-It's the power and status Troy holds the reason he feels his responsibility to raise the family. **<span style="font-family: 宋体"> **<span style="color: rgb(4, 73, 175)"> 4.Troy's responsibility towards family comes from his father: TS-It is the way he was brought up by his father the reason he grew up to be a man of responsibilities. ** > ** <span style="color: rgb(49, 17, 228)">
 * ** I can step out of this house and get away form the pressures and problems… be a different man. I ain’t going to wonder how I’m gonna pay the bills or get the roof fixed.(II.ii.pg69) **<span style="font-family: 宋体">
 * Troy is the man of the house. He is the one in charge. <span style="font-family: 宋体"> At the same time as having power, he has to face the obstacles that come as time go by, and then overcome the difficulties.
 * He raises the family by working hard. This is one of his great[[image:external]][[image:external]]st responsibility- to the family.
 * ** But I'll say this for him... he felt a responsibility towards us. Maybe he ain't treated us the way I felt he should have... but without that responsibility he could have walked off and left us... made his own way.(I.iv.pg51)
 * It's his father's sense of responsibility that inspired him to be a responsible man as he is now feeling the his respoinsibilities and doing things he should do accordingly.
 * It is the way he was brought up the reason he does many things at present.

The responsibility is significant throughout many of Troy’s lines, and this very well shows that his character can feel a very strong sense of responsibility. A result of his father's way of raising children, resulting on his children and the people that are close around him.