Conflict in Songs

In this lesson of drama, I watched four different songs and had to answer the two questions below.

What is the conflict?

What is the song about?

Alanis Morissette - Perfect

• Trying to be perfect
• Family pressure
• Parents forcing son/daughter to be the best
• Comparing them to other people
• Pressure from others to be flawless
• Parents are pushing the child to be whatever the parents weren't - achieve what they didn't

Tori Amos - Silent All These Years

• Abuse from boyfriend/significant other
• Boyfriend's mother does the same thing to him so he does it to her
• She wants to leave and escape
• Domestic Abuse
• Lyric - 'Boy you best praya that I bleed real soon' is saying, get it done with and make me bleed so maybe you stop

Pearl Jam - Jeremy

• No one cares about the boy
• No one listens to him
• Neglected by his parents
• Bullied at school
• Felt alone and helpless like there was nothing else to do
• Killed himself in front of his English class

Tracy Chapman - Behind the Wall

• Domestic Abuse
• Husband and wife fighting
• She [the singer] is the neighbour who can hear everything
• The police always comes late
• Even though they call the police it wont do anything
• The police wont fix the problem
• She sees the ambulance outside their house
• She [singer] prays that she was dreaming