Master Harold and the Boys

looks like it

Ja,

1. Athol Fugard

Master Harold and the Boys

looks like it

Ja,

1. Athol Fugard

Master Harold and the Boys

looks like it

Ja,

1. Athol Fugard

Master Harold and the Boys

looks like it

Ja,

1. Athol Fugard

Master Harold and the Boys

Apartheid

1. Athol Fugard

Master Harold and the Boys

Apartheid

1. Athol Fugard

Banned

Master Harold and the Boys

Strong autobiographical matter

1. Athol Fugard

Master Harold and the Boys

Strong autobiographical matter

1. Athol Fugard

A fiction, not a metaphor

Master Harold and the Boys

Social Reformer

2. Plot

Master Harold and the Boys

Social Reformer

2. Plot

Master Harold and the Boys

Social Reformer

2. Plot

Master Harold and the Boys

Hally (Master Harold)

3. Characters

Master Harold and the Boys

Hally (Master Harold)

3. Characters

Inner Conflict

Master Harold and the Boys

Hally (Master Harold)

3. Characters

Inner Conflict

Fair Skin vs. Intimacy to his friends

Master Harold and the Boys

Hally (Master Harold)

3. Characters

Inner Conflict

Fair Skin vs. Intimacy to his friends

Hate vs. Love for his father

Master Harold and the Boys

Hally (Master Harold)

3. Characters

Inner Conflict

Fair Skin vs. Intimacy to his friends

Hate vs. Love for his father

White Male vs. little boy

Master Harold and the Boys

Hally (Master Harold)

3. Characters

Inner Conflict

Interrelated to Social Structure

Master Harold and the Boys

Sam

3. Characters

Master Harold and the Boys

Sam

3. Characters

An Exception

Master Harold and the Boys

Sam

3. Characters

An Exception

Wise, Eager to learn / Ban on Education

Master Harold and the Boys

Sam

3. Characters

An Exception

Wise, Eager to learn / Ban on Education

He calls the boy Hally / Implicit social caste

Master Harold and the Boys

Sam

3. Characters

An Exception

Wise, Eager to learn / Ban on Education

He Calls the boy Hally / Implicit social caste

Hopes for Harmony / World of Collision

Master Harold and the Boys

Sam

3. Characters

An Exception

Un-othering African natives

By going against the stereotype

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Willy

3. Characters

A Double-sided man

Master Harold and the Boys

Willy

3. Characters

A Double-sided man

Beating his partner, and blaming her

Master Harold and the Boys

Willy

3. Characters

A Double-sided man

Beating his partner, and blaming her

He would not hit a boy

Master Harold and the Boys

Willy

3. Characters

A Double-sided man

Beating his partner, and blaming her

He would not hit a boy

At the periphery of the narrative

Master Harold and the Boys

Willy

3. Characters

A Double-sided man

Beats his partner, and blames her

Would not hit a boy

At the periphery of the narrative

Master Harold and the Boys

Willy

3. Characters

A Double-sided man

Also un-othering native africans

By demystifying

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Father

3. Characters

Filth

Master Harold and the Boys

Father

3. Characters

Filth

Alcohol addict - shame

Master Harold and the Boys

Father

3. Characters

Filth

Alcohol addict - shame

Crippled - physically, and mentally

Master Harold and the Boys

Father

3. Characters

Filth

Alcohol addict - shame

Crippled - physically, and mentally

Racist - oppression on Hally

Master Harold and the Boys

Father

3. Characters

Filth

Super ego, object of love for Hally

Exemplifying, Reproducing social prejudice

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Kite Flying

4. Analysis

Master Harold and the Boys

4. Analysis

SAM: But the one person who should have been teaching you what that means was the cause of your shame.

hopelessness, shame of existence

Master Harold and the Boys

4. Analysis

SAM: that's why I made you that kite. I wanted you to look up, be proud of something, of yourself.

Kite as signifier of hope (formless hope)

SAM: But the one person who should have been teaching you what that means was the cause of your shame.

Master Harold and the Boys

4. Analysis

HALLY: here's no chance of me flying a kite without it being strange.

shame, exclusion of self

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4. Analysis

SAM: you're going to be sitting up there by yourself for a long time to come, and there won't be a kite in the sky.

Hope & inclusion comes with the courage to embrace

SAM: And you're a coward, master Harold. The face you should be spitting in is your father's.

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4. Analysis

Pessimism / difficulty in defying the norm

HALLY: It's still raining, Sam. You can't fly kites on rainy days, remember.

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4. Analysis

SAM: So what do we do? Hope for better weather tomorrow?

Asking to choose between hope and pessimism

To Hally & the audiences

Master Harold and the Boys

Ballroom Dance

4. Analysis

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4. Analysis

SAM: Then pretend. When you put your arms around Hilda, imagine she is Ginger Rogers.

Fantasy or religion, against reality

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4. Analysis

HALLY: This is a business establishment, not a bloody new Brighton dancing school.

Mere pastime - not intellectually challenging

HALLY: said it was simple - like in simple-minded, meaning mentally retarded

Master Harold and the Boys

4. Analysis

HALLY: This is a business establishment, not a bloody new Brighton dancing school.

deviation from western values

HALLY: said it was simple - like in simple-minded, meaning mentally retarded

SAM: It does others things ... Make people happy.

Master Harold and the Boys

4. Analysis

HALLY: This is a business establishment, not a bloody new Brighton dancing school.

deviation from western values

HALLY: said it was simple - like in simple-minded, meaning mentally retarded

SAM: It does others things ... Make people happy.

Master Harold and the Boys

4. Analysis

-Aristotelian Categorization, Euclidean definition

HALLY: (Art is) the giving of form to the formless.

-Product of western intellectual heritage

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4. Analysis

-Cultured with personal experience, not theories

HALLY: (Art is) the giving of form to the formless.

SAM: maybe it's not art, then. But I still say it's beautiful. ... And if you want proof, come along to the Centenary hall ...

-Less emphasis on definition,

Proof by feeling not demonstration

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4. Analysis

-The view of the world as a potential harmony

SAM: There's no collisions out there ... And it's beautiful because that is what we want life to be like.

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Paternal Relationship

4. Analysis - paternal relationship

Master Harold and the Boys

4. Analysis - paternal relationship

HALLY: I've got it. Freud and Psychology.

SAM: No. I didn't understand him.

HALLY: That makes two of us.

(1) Father - a prohibiter

Master Harold and the Boys

4. Analysis - paternal relationship

HALLY: I've got it. Freud and Psychology.

SAM: No. I didn't understand him.

HALLY: That makes two of us.

Not a classic oedipus complex case!

Master Harold and the Boys

4. Analysis - paternal relationship

Nevertheless, the father reproduces engraving of

Apartheid (The Legislature de facto of the land)

Master Harold and the Boys

4. Analysis - paternal relationship

Nevertheless, the father reproduces engraving of

Apartheid (The Legislature de facto of the land)

He acts as the super-ego of Hally

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4. Analysis - paternal relationship

Father, boss, filth

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4. Analysis - paternal relationship

Fairness as decentness - rationality

Father, boss, filth

vs.

Fairness as a color of skin - sovereignty (power, exclusion)

Master Harold and the Boys

4. Analysis - paternal relationship

Fairness as decentness

Father, boss, filth

vs.

Fairness as a color of skin

True nature of the super-ego

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4. Analysis - paternal relationship

(2) Father - a shame

SAM: you're ashamed of him. You're ashamed of so much! .

gammy legs, chamberpot of urine, unconscious on a black servant's back...

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4. Analysis - paternal relationship

SAM: you're ashamed of him. You're ashamed of so much! .

. . And now that's going to include yourself.

A crippled dancer - impossible to join the harmony

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4. Analysis - paternal relationship

Hally's dislike of his father

is not only of the old man's personality

Master Harold and the Boys

4. Analysis - paternal relationship

Hally's dislike of his father

is not only of the old man's personality

but of the structural exclusion to which he serves

Master Harold and the Boys

4. Analysis - paternal relationship

SAM: It would have been so simple if you could have just despised him for being a weak man.

(3) Father - an object of love

Imperialistic logic

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4. Analysis - paternal relationship

SAM: It would have been so simple if you could have just despised him for being a weak man.

but he's your father.

Universality of familial love

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4. Analysis - paternal relationship

Here universality of familial love is

utilized to overcome the rule of imperialism

Master Harold and the Boys

4. Analysis - paternal relationship

Here universality of familial love is

utilized to overcome the rule of imperialism

Mystifies a universal feeling

Master Harold and the Boys

4. Analysis - paternal relationship

Father / sign of imperial system of thinking = filth

Father / cause of shame

Father / an object of love

Symbolic father

Real father

Imaginary father

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4. Analysis - paternal relationship

HALLY: I don't know...

Innate human nature

vs.

Consequence of social prejudice

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Q1: Will the preference of hope to rationality bring a state of less exclusion?

5. Questions

Liberalism

Deliberative democracy

The play contrasts the kite and the rain.

Religion (Christianity)

Myth (Inyangwa ye Zulu)

Belief (no other solution)

vs.

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Q2: Does this representation of black south africans

(with the ultimate consent of Willy to Sam's proposal)

romanticizes and mystifies their worldview?

5. Questions

Sam sees harmony as the end, even to be pretended when needed to.

Master Harold and the Boys

Q3: How does this role of familial love as a device affect Hally's ambivalent representation?

Does it strengthen or weaken the function of the play to reveal the cruelty of apartheid?

5. Questions

Familial love was an undeniable a priori fact in the play.