Using the following prompt. This paper must include properly documented references to at least three peer-reviewed sources. It should also include references to (that is, quotations / paraphrases from all of the works in this section.
You could focus your essay on one play and use the others to comment on it. For example, you might argue that Troy Mason (in Fences) is subject to racism (an outside force but that he has also made some bad choices himself that had negative consequences. You could suggest that this complex view of responsibility is the correct one. This view could be supported by scholarly articles from sociology, psychology, philosophy, or religion.