Outline

Introduction

In "Master Harold" … and the Boys Fugard uses his own past to explore the casualties and consequences of South Africa's racial system. ." Hally is comforted by the thought that "things will change, you wait and see. One day somebody is going to get up and give history a kick up the backside and get it going again."

Discussion

The essay will discuss the Name Calling, Symbols and Negative Effects of Racisms. In 1989 Time magazine called Athol Fugard, He is certainly the best-known and most performed African playwright, a white South African whose explorations of his country's complex race relations during and after apartheid has led to his being described as "the literary conscience of Africa" and South Africa's "most eloquent anti-apartheid crusader abroad. "Hally widens the gap between the former friends and his surrogate father by repeating one of his father's racist jokes: "What isn't fair? A nigger's arise."

Conclusion

The conclusion will be drawn on the basis on introduction and discussion.

Master Harold and the Boys

Introduction

The history of Apartheid has been linked with the career of Athol Fugard, a South African playwright, inextricably. Fugard who oppose the system vocally was the subject to government surveillance and suppression for his plays when organizing and writing multiracial casts. Portraying inspiration from traditions spanning Brecht to vaudeville, his works focused on representing the effects of Apartheid on social and personal interrelations (Glucksman, pp. 54-94).

Discussion

Athol Fugard in 1982, in his play, Master Harold…and the Boys, he on personal level plays out the effects of Apartheid. Set in a small tea room during 1950, Harold known as Hally, a white South African teenaged, waits during a rainy afternoon with his family's two black servants, Willie and Sam (Fugard, pp. 34-98). Waiting to hear from his mother, who has gone to see his father in the ...