Break down the emotional walls
March 2020 was the most influential change in our lives. It wasn’t easy to hear about a pandemic, better yet an indefinite amount of time in quarantine. But to put it quite frankly, I learned the most about myself then. Hours on end, stuck alone, engrossed in emotions; the lack of change fences me within the confines of my home, pondering over who I really am. It makes me neurotic at times, but perhaps that’s simply part of my personality invoking such a coping mechanism toward the pandemic. What intrigues me is this confluence of physical and psychological, given the social contexts. In the play Fences , both the physical and psychological limitations presented after climactic action exemplify how solitude evokes suppressed feelings against societal norms—often leading to epiphanies in identity. The way in which characters in Fences experience catharsis is similar to Greek tragedy. As defined by Aristotle, tragedy is “in the form of action, not of narrative,” and the “incidents arou