The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window to see what they have until tragedy strikes. Throughout the play these intrinsic flaws represent the imperfection of people. The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window is the second and last staged play by playwright Lorraine Hansberry, author of "A Raisin in the Sun". The play is a story about a man named Sidney, his pitfalls within his personal life, and struggles in Bohemian culture. The play premiered October 15, 1964 and received mixed reviews. It encompasses themes of race, suicide, homosexuality, and also focuses on individual characters learning to cope with life. Lorraine Hansberry,
What Is a Nation? and continues to be invoked. Political historian Karl Deutsch, in a quote sometimes mistakenly attributed to Renan, said that a nation is "a group of people united by a mistaken view about the past and a hatred of their neighbours". Benedict Anderson's 1983 work Imagined Communities, which states that a nation is an "imagined political community", argues that Renan contradicts himself when he says French people must have forgotten the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, yet does not explain what it is. In other words, Renan assumes that all his readers will remember the very massacre he says they have forgotten.