Master Harold

Charles Halloway also shows an outraged tone throughout the novel. In the book it says, “Will’s father struck one blow before his left hand was seized, held, squeezed. As the boys watched, shouting, they saw Charles Halloway gasp and fall to one knee.” (221) This shows the outraged tone Charles has by showing how Charles tried to punch Mr. Dark.

In Master Harold and the boys, the situation that Sam endures is that he has limited options on how to cheer Hally up and make him

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.

“Master Harold”... and the boys, is a powerful play written by Athol Fugard that allows us to analyze the complex relationship between a black man and a young white boy within the context of racism in South Africa in the 1950’s. This play is characterized by metaphors used by the author to illustrate the struggle of people dealing with racism. One of the most important themes of this play is racism, focusing on the injustice in South Africa when the apartheid system was in place. Racial segregation and separation in this time in history demonstrates to us how this system allowed unequal rights for whites and blacks. There is evidence that the relationship between Hally,

The complicated relationship that defines Hally’s family changes him from a sweet, amicable young man to a racist, choleric boy when his family bonds are stressed. Since Standard Four, Hally taught Sam basic and advanced knowledge until Standard Nine (28). Historically, Whites treated African Americans as inferiors until the Civil Rights Era in 1960s. Hally teaching Sam in the 1940s reveals his unique traits as a white who is sympathetic to African Americans. However, the rage and anger of his family problems cause Hally to react impulsively and inappropriately. After receiving a call from his mother with an update on his father, Hally remarks, “Life is just a plain bloody mess, that’s all. And people are fools.” (34). Caring for his weak dad

When Hally was saying bad stuff about his dad, Sam tried to stop him because he is talking about his own dad. At that point, Hally raged, “why don’t you also start calling me Master Harold, like Willie.” Hally’s head was full of anger, he didn’t realize what he has done wrong and he choice to be racist. “He is a white man and that’s good enough for you.” When Sam argued Hally that Hally’s dad isn’t his boss, he started being racist.

Contrast between Sam and Hally's Father in Athol Fugard's "Master Harold" . . . and the Boys

“Master Harold… and the Boys” by Athol Fugard is a play that portrays a relationship between a young white boy and two black men. The boys care for Hally while he sits down in the tea room. The tea room is the only place Hally feels safe and at home. Sam justifies as a stronger and better father figure than Hally’s own father will ever be. Hally’s dad is a drunk who shames his family, uses Hally’s money for school to buy alcohol, and makes Hally feel as if he is responsible for taking care of him. In this scene the prop of alcohol and the actual action of Hally throwing the brandy on the ground portrays Hally’s feelings towards his father's alcoholism.

Throughout the events of the play, Hally claimed that he was a progressive and a liberal person, compared to the rest of his family and classmates. Rather than being backwards and regressive, Hally says that he is a reformer and supporter of progress. In his discussions with Sam and Willie, the black servants employed by his family, Hally claimed that he believed, despite the ‘horrible’ nature of the world, believed that one day reform will occur. When discussing school and society, Hally was hopeful that, “things will change, you wait and see [Sam]” (15). Rather than society and people remaining in the ‘barbaric’ and horrible state forever, Hally believed that some day, change will come and lives will improve, saying, “There is something

Now between Harold and his father, his father dominates him easily. Because of this Harold may want to feel like he?s somehow in control of something, and that?s why he treats Willie and Sam the way he does. I think Harold loves Willie and Sam, like Harolds father loves his wife, but because Harolds father is in control, Harold wants to feel somehow in control too.

The bench which reads "whites only" stands for the apartheid, division, hatred and racism. When Hally is angry because of his father, he could not bear the insult and humiliation caused by his father’s degradation, he sits on the bench and orders Sam to call him a Master. In extreme anger to make him feel superior, he even does not hesitate to spit in the face of Sam. Since then, their friendship ends and a relationship of master and slave starts. The bench symbolizes the division and the hierarchy.

Hally hates his father because his father makes him feel powerless, forming him to take power from Sam and Willie. Powerless in the sense that when the father is at home with Hally, he doesn’t feel any superiority. This made hally to hate his father. When hally is with his father, he is forced to do complicated things that made him uncomfortable.

From the distinction and separation by skin color in white, black and colored in the cities, comes the literal meaning of the term apartheid, which was initially named after the word meaning nothing more than separation; from the Dutch: separately (apart) and district (heid). The word was originally only the Afrikaans translation of the English word "segregation", which was previously used for the existing practices in South Africa. The Afrikaner nationalists took this translation and circulated it to underline that they regarded their policy as something new. They developed a whole heap of new explanations and justification patterns for the doctrine of apartheid in order to be held legitimate, but in principle was no more different than any other former colonial racism. Although there was always racial segregation in the colonial period, the system of apartheid promoted new space for social tensions and resistance to rise.

The South African Apartheid, instituted in 1948 by the country’s Afrikaner National Party, was legalized segregation on the basis of race, and is a system comparable to the segregation of African Americans in the United States. Non-whites - including blacks, Indians, and people of color in general- were prohibited from engaging in any activities specific to whites and prohibited from engaging in interracial marriages, receiving higher education, and obtaining certain jobs. The National Party’s classification of “race” was loosely based on physical appearance and lineage. White individuals were superficially defined as being “obviously white'' on the basis of their “habits, education and speech as well as deportment and demeanor”; an

Hall tells us that he grew up in Jamaica, the "blackest son" (in his words) of a middle-class, conservative family; from an early age, Hall says, he rejected his father's attempt to assimilate into white, English-speaking society (his father worked his way up through the United Fruit Company). In 1951, he won a scholarship to Oxford (he was a Rhodes scholar)--and (as they say) the rest is history. As a student at Oxford, he sensed that his color as well as his economic