Athol Fugard's 'Master Harold' . . . and the Boys is about Hally, a white young man, and the damage done by apartheid The play takes place on the southeast cost of South Africa, 1950 during the apartheid, in Hally's parents' restaurant. This is where two black servants, Sam and Willie, work for the white family. Sam and Willie have been a part of Hally's upbringing and are close friends. The play is a microcosm for the situation happening in South Africa a parallel time.
As the whole play is a microcosm to a bigger picture, so to incidents through out the play are microcosms for other aspects of the 1950s in South Africa. These incidents have both a personal as well as political relevance for Fugard says “My plays are more than politics, but they are never removed from my homeland . My two subjects, myself and my country are one”. I think what he is trying to say is that he was living the struggle himself, he had the apartheid directly upon him, through out my essay I will discus if I agree with this statement.
In 'Master Harold' . . . and the Boys, one can examine the kite, dance, bench, and disease incidents, these are the symbols of the conflicting forces competing for Hally's future. These can also be seen in a different light one on a more political level.
The kite is an object symbolic of transcendence. Even as a child, Hally had an ingrain sense of defeat, disappointment, and failure; that is why Sam made him the kite. He wanted the little boy to be proud of something, proud of himself. Sam gave to him the phenomena of flying, the ideology of climbing high above his shame. The kite triggered neurotic thoughts but exhilarated the despairing boy. This is it, I thought. Like everything else in my life, here comes another fiasco. Then you shouted Go, Hally! and I started to run. I don't know how to describe it, Sam. Ja! The miracle happened! I was running, waiting for it to crash to the ground, but instead suddenly there was something alive behind me at the end of the string, tugging at it as if it wanted to be free. I looked back . . . I still can't believe my eyes. It was flying. . . I was so proud of us. . . I would have been suicidal if anything had happened to it. The kite conjured up ideas and feelings of believing in miracles, of being alive, and free. We see her “im so proud of us“that the whites took credit for lots of the work black labour d...
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...e Boys. Hally's father is sick in many ways: he is crippled, he is an alcoholic, and he is a racist. As a young boy Hally had to be sent to escort his drunken father home. He imposed horrible tasks on his son; Hally would have to clean up urine and empty the chamber-pot of phlegm and urine.; Hally was inheriting his father's social illness| disease of racism first not seemingly’ hello chaps’ but later evident ‘call me Master Harold’. . Hally's drunk father ignited his rage and apartheid made it acceptable to take it out on Sam. Their friendship disappeared with Master Harold's spit on Sam's face. Hally at the time was grown in some ways but still very young I others “long trousers yet still a young boy”
When Hally or rather Fugard gets old enough to realise his mistake he declares it publicly through the play,Master “Harold…and the boys” is an autobiography of Fugard’s life, he write it as an apology to Sam.
To some up I feel that Fugart described the way that he and the play paralleled beautifully, the play is about him and has shown all the effects the surroundings had on him both on a simple boys level to a grown man where he can now see where those surroundings were wrong.
In most stories symbols are given right of that bat to help build the story and give us a little meaning towards why something is happening in a story. In Lord of the Flies everything is intended to stand for a symbol or also known an allegory . Thats just what William Golding wanted to portray society in a more comprehensible way. Lord of the Flies is about a group of boys who get stranded in an island after their plane is shot down in the midst of a war. They are virtually one their own without any adult supervision which all the boys take a liking to. The main characters are Ralph and Piggy who meet in the beginning of the story. An also Jack a hardheaded boy with a personal agenda after all the boys are voting on whos going to be their leader. Throughout the book the boys try to keep order with their makeshift government but everything soon falls apart and are torn apart by a leadership rivalry between Ralph and Jack. Throughout the book we see a lot of major symbols that change from the beginning of the story towards the end.
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Symbols in literacy are tremendously important to make a story more than what it may seem at first glance, but in the story Lord of the Flies symbolism is taken to a new extreme. Nearly everything mentioned in this story embodies something that assists in creating a life lesson from which all people can learn. A symbol is an item or idea within a story that represents a deeper meaning. Throughout this story each symbol has a strong connection with power, the need for authority is blatantly obvious, and is like a reoccurring theme throughout the whole novel. The representation of control over the island is very unique and repetitive; several simple items have an exceptionally commanding role as the story begins to expand. The head of a dead sow placed upon a stake creates an atmosphere of evil that hovers over the entire island and inflicts a certain fear upon everyone. This sow’s head in addition to a conch shell found lying on the island tremendously impact the story. These symbols help to both empower certain individuals and demean other helpless characters, which creates a separat...
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The kite is a piece of allegory throughout the book. It symbolizes the way for Amir to be good enough for his father and reminder of his happiness. After Hassan was raped the meaning of kite changed reminding Amir that he betrayed Hassan. At the end of the book Amir is flying a kite with Sorab symbolizing his hope that he has redeemed himself.
In Amir’s early childhood, kites represented happiness. Flying kites was his favorite pastime, as it was the only way that he connected fully with Baba, who was once a champion kite fighter. However, the kite takes on a different significance when Amir doesn’t stop Hassan's abusers from raping him in order to prevent the kite from being stolen. The kite serves as a symbol of Amir’s guilt throughout the novel. Hechose his fragile relationship with his father over the well-being of his best friend and half-brother: “Baba and I lived in the same ...
It was good setting to get the attention from the audience and also a way to move around or change settings of the play. Although I love this play my small critic for this play was the players. Some others actors had understandable accents but others didn’t. For example, the brother of the servant his accent was confusing because he kept switching his accent from different country languages. This play was really nice it had a little of bit of everything drama, comedy, romance, betrayal. What like about this play it was how they used the dramatic structure the inciting incident and the climax. The inciting incident for this play of musical comedy murders of 1940 was guessing who the killer of the play was because there was tension building up not knowing who the murder was. The climax for this play would be for me finding out who was the murder and just being in shock how everything had change into a new scenario. Overall it was amazing show how it developed and how well an organized transition the play
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I think this play is a lot about what does race mean, and to what extent do we perform race either onstage or in life:
"It's a bloody awful world when you come to think of it. People can be real bastards." (Hally, pp. 15)"Master Harold"... and the boys by Athol Fugard, is an informative text about the relationship between Hally, a 17 year old white boy, and Sam and Willie, two black men. As Hally falls victim to the attitudes of white supremacy and racial intolerances accompanying the Apartheid policy of the 1950's, their lifelong friendship is destroyed. This "bloody awful world" referred to in the above quote is perpetuated by ignorance and the passiveness of its participants. One way to change these intolerances is through the delivery of a liberal education, the purpose of which is to inform students of issues such as racial and social inequality. By emerging students in literature such as the above, not only will they be informed about historical and social aspects of the world, but also the vicious cruelty between races. "Don't be clever, Sam. It doesn't suit you." (Hally, pp. 35) The notion of whites being of a superior intellectual class to blacks, a prejudice that still pervades modern society, emerges from the play as one of the predominant themes. A prevalent example of this can be seen when Hally and Sam argue over the value of ballroom dancing. Hally fails to recognise its simplistic "beauty" and consequently claims the activity to be a "simple-minded" expression of primitive black society. However Sam, through his ...
Firstly I would set this play in the 21st century so that a modern audience could relate to it. Algernon, one of the main characters in the play, would live in a luxury apartment in the centre of London, over looking the River Thames. His apartment would have a minimalist theme to it and would be influenced by aesthetic; for example he would have a piece of abstract art on the wall for no reason other than that he thinks it looks nice.