In the play Fences by August Wilson, Rose tells Troy that she has married him because she thought that she would be able to change him.
He pushes his son further and further away with his lack of support and his insistence that the boy follow a more traditional path. Troy is married to Rose, who is 10 years younger. Marrying Troy, she hoped for joy and stability after a chain of abusive relationships. What she discovered is Troy's inability to love.
Troy is husband to Rose, father to Lyons, Cory, and Raynell, and brother to Gabriel.
Troy gets married twice in the play Fences. His first marriage was before he was sent to prison for fifteen years because of a murder he accidentally committed during an attempted robbery. He had a son, Lyons, with his first wife. After prison, Troy met his second wife, Rose, and they had another son named Cory.
Before Rose responds, Troy muses that he cheated on his wife because he has felt restrained and worn out due to “standing in the same place for eighteen years” (Wilson 2.1).
Here, in what is the turning point in the play, Troy confesses his affair with Alberta and the anticipated birth of his child. This episode results in many changes in the lives of the family. To this point in the play Rose, realizing her dependence on Troy, accepted his failings, his bitterness and regrets.
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.
Denzel Washington and Viola Davis play Troy and Rose Maxson, a couple who have been together for 18 years. Rose, who is loyal to Troy despite his past infidelity, is helping to raise his illegitimate daughter, Raynell.
Helen chose Menelaus, who later became king of Sparta. The conflict with the Trojans was set in motion when Aphrodite, the goddess of love, took steps to win a beauty contest judged by Paris, a prince of Troy.
Helen and Paris had three sons, Bunomus, Aganus ("gentle"), Idaeus and a daughter also called Helen.
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.
Rose rejects Troy as her partner because she takes seriously the Biblical commandment that decrees, "Thou Shalt Not Sin," but finds forgiveness for the child born to her sinful husband because of her belief that "when the sins of our fathers visit us/we don't have to play host/we can banish them with forgiveness/as God ...
Months later, the baby is born, but Alberta unfortunately dies during childbirth. Troy brings his baby daughter Raynell home, and Rose agrees to raise her as her own, but refuses to accept him back into her life.
Troy admits to Rose that he has been having an affair and that his mistress, Alberta, is pregnant. Later, Alberta dies in childbirth.
Troy does not treat Rose very well in the play Fences. Rose stands up for herself; when Troy makes inappropriate comments, she tells him to stop, and when he lies, she calls him out. However, Troy cheats on Rose and fathers a baby with his mistress.
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."
One day, Helen was at her palace in Sparta with her husband Menelaus. Paris appeared. As was customary by the laws of hospitality in ancient Greece, they gave him lodging and entertained him with banquets and gifts. Paris and Helen fell madly in love from the moment they met.
In Greek mythology, the face that launched a thousand ships
She was married to Menelaus, king of Sparta. Paris, son of King Priam of Troy, fell in love with Helen and abducted her, taking her back to Troy.
Her many sexual partners – the hero Theseus, her husband Menelaus, her lover Paris, her second Trojan husband Deiphobus, and (some whispered) Achilles after both he and Helen were dead – are trotted out by ancient and modern authors alike as the gossip columns would the client-list of a high-class prostitute.
To Rose, a fence is a symbol of her love and her desire for a fence indicates that Rose represents love and nurturing.
Troy is 53 years old in the play Fences. The play's last scene occurs seven years after the main events of the play just before Troy's funeral, indicating that Troy died at age 60.
The phone rings and Rose goes to answer it. She comes back out and tells Troy that it was the hospital calling. Alberta has had the child but died in the process.
In the case of one of the most famous women from the Trojan War tradition, Helen of Sparta and later of Troy, the gendering actions of her character are complex and difficult to pin down. On the one hand, she is one of the most beautiful women in Greece, a prize wife from Aphrodite.
Rose accuses Troy of treating Gabe just like he treated Cory—he betrayed them both. Whereas Troy wouldn't sign Cory's recruitment papers, he was willing to sign the papers for Gabe's hospitalization. Rose adds that Troy will profit from sending Gabe away, since he'll get half of his brother's money.
By announcing the truth out loud to Bono, Troy begins to fully understand the enormity of the betrayal he has committed. Unfortunately for Troy, he is too late: Alberta is now pregnant with his child.