Theme Of Hally In Athol Fugard's Master Harold

Theatre is not only presented as a piece of art, but as a tool of social reform to express the feelings of humans and contemporary notions of society. Plays are designed to reflect significant issues of a society, on which they were created. The play Black Diggers by Tom Wright, uses certain devices and forms of symbolism to emphasise not only the historical relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, but to link ideas to contemporary issues to provoke ideas of empathy. Wright creates a series of character encounters, to express how an Indigenous racial identity is perceived by society and compare a period of discrimination and infringement of rights to how it is expressed at war during World War 1. This provokes ideas of repentance

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George C. Wolfe’s satirical play, The Colored Museum, elicits emotion from those who read its powerful lines and make its sentiments spring to life on stage. The play is Wolfe’s indelicate way of handling sensitive subjects related to the African American community. The play carries just enough humor to keep its audience captivated and just enough scalding stereotype to keep its audience from growing bored. The satire and parody presented in The Colored Museum depicts the harsh truth about the lives of African Americans.

Most people cannot see reality as it truly is from their eyes. In Athol Fugard’s Master Harold… and the Boys, he shows the apartheid between blacks and whites in South Africa. While some of these white people wanted to end apartheid, other people who lived with apartheid for their whole lives do not see the wrongs with it. These people want change, but do not know that they are the issue which is known as a psychological barrier. In the play, Athol Fugard uses Willie who struggles with a psychological barrier, how Wille’s psychological barrier motivates his actions and how Willie’s barrier is altered by the end of the play to prove how Willie is affected negatively by apartheid.

creates a play that illustrates not only the struggle of growing up in a prejudiced world but also

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Popular media allow for the general public to be able to properly digest the matters of racial prejudice that are prevalent in our society. There are various ways that racial prejudices are exposed through actions and the structures in society that stems from the perceptions that race is this biological hierarchical supremacy. Additionally, these race classifications that are made by those in power has structured society in a way that puts some in advantage and many at a disadvantage that has continued into modern society. These are disadvantages are revealed through such things as microagressions and socioeconomic structures that favored and continues to favor the “dominant” classes. These matters can be best expressed through personal experiences relating to experienced prejudice, such as Lorraine Hansberry conveying artistically her experience with racial housing issues in Chicago. In her play, The Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry reveals through the Younger family, such issues as community acceptance, lost dreams, and racial discrimination on an economic level. Bruce Norris’s play, Clybourne Park, considers these issues as well as he expands on Hansberry’s world in his personal adaptation of The Raisin in the Sun’s primary plot point. Through experiences shared in the Younger’s future home, Norris explores privilege, systematic racism, white flight, community, and gentrification. Through reference and analysis of Raisin in the Sun and then of Clybourne Park, followed by

the play are ―rich symbol[s]‖ that convey the barriers of a ―racist society‖ (Kenny par. 18). The

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Throughout the years the play Othello by William Shakespeare has been adapted both on the screen and on stage many times. The questions or race and racism that have quite often been a point of discussion with William Shakespeare’s play Othello can be seen through the bard, however some may argue that Othello’s skin colour was purely a plot device. This paper will look at two film that have been re-made since the 1960’s, which provides an analysis of the concept of race and how political ideas and events of that time have influenced each adaptation. It will be seen that the film version of Othello directed by Oliver Parker in 1995 compared to the film version directed by Geoff Sax in 2001 present’s race with differing degrees.

In Master Harold ...and the boys by Athol Fugard, privileges play a major role in the relationships and roles between Hally, and his two African friends, Sam and Willie. Hally is open to more privileges compared to his other two friends. The main reason for this privilege unbalance is due to the fact Hally is “White” and Sam and Willie are “Black”. Later on in the play, Hally clearly abuses his privileges and tries to set himself as a higher figure than Sam and Willie. The relationship between Hally and his two friends describe the relationships between white men and black men during the apartheid.

Have you ever pondered why the lengths of our fingers are so disproportional? It exists to prohibit imbalance and so that human beings can have a firmer grasp on certain objects. Comparable are our lives against it since we also encounter endless struggles as well as contentment all tended to stabilize our lives which counteracts extreme exposure to any one of the situations. But what if we begin to shatter this stability in the greed to only gain the better of the two? Well, we commence to fight our fates and develop conflicts in our own paths without acceptance towards miscellaneous situations. The same is portrayed in the play, A Raisin in the Sun, where each member of the Younger family persistently endeavors to fulfil his or her dreams. Each of the member’s prime necessity is money in order to achieve a better lifestyle and to elevate in the minds of White Americans who deem African Americans as a meager race, excluding Beneatha, the daughter of the family who intends to engage more in her culture than just wealth. Unfortunately in the surge of their desires, both the American society and the Younger family forget the requirement of acceptance in their lives. In this play, the message that Lorraine Hansberry attempts to convey to us is that as human beings, we all should attempt to maintain acceptance towards certain situations in order to understand the opposition’s complications, to face the reality with strength and to avert racism and inhumanity.

In the play, Master Harold...and the boys, by Athol Fugard the scene when Hally get angry about his father is very aggressive and lively exactly like the fast paced dance called ,The Jive. Master Harold… and the boys is a detailed play about a young white boy with two middle aged African American servants. The servants, Sam and Willie, are attempting to learn ballroom dancing. The young white boy, Hally, comes home after a stressful day at school and everything goes downhill from their. Hallys father is in the hospital and his mother is gone taking care of him. Throughout this play there are many arguments and laughs between the boy and the two men that are very entertaining.