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Master Haroldand the boys

• By Athol Fugard

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In the theatre of course my fascination lies
with the living moment the actual, the real,
the immediate, there before our eyes, even if it
shares in the transient fate of all living
momentsThe theatre uses flesh and blood, sweat,
the human voice, real pain, real time.-Athol
Fugard, Notebooks 1963
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Background

• Title Master Haroldand the boys
• Author Athol Fugard
• Publication Date ___________
• Setting South Africa, during the
  ___________________________ (1948-1994)
• Genre _____________________
• Characters Hally, Sam, Willie
• Premiered in Yale Repertory Theater in 1982 and
  made its first Broadway appearance later that
  year (with 344 Broadway performances)

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Who is Athol Fugard?

• Please go to the Master Harold tab on our
  website
• Open the document entitled Fugard Bio
  Real-Life Connections
• This describes Fugards life and how he is
  closely linked to Hally in the play
• Take 10 minutes to read and highlight in
  Notability, and we will discuss as a class

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Roots of Apartheid

• Arriving in South Africa in 1652, the
  ____________________ settlers established the
  Cape of Good Hope and utilized the Dutch East
  India Company to import slaves from Malaysia,
  Madagascar, India, Indonesia, Mozambique and East
  Africa.
• In 1795 when gold was discovered on tribal
  lands, British forces seized control of the Cape
  colony. Soon, many citizens of the English Isles
  were immigrating to South Africa, leaving the
  Dutch settlers, now renamed ______________________
  ____, struggling to retain and regain power over
  their territories, resulting in the Anglo-Boer
  War (1899-1902).
• Through a peace treaty, the Boers lost their
  independence, Britain retained domination, and
  the British abolished slavery.
• The British proposed ________________________
  ____________________________________in the areas
  of land, labor, education and politics. In 1910,
  the Union government passed proposals into law
  which instituted several Acts that would keep
  South Africas blacks away from its whites.

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Instigating Apartheid

• By the 1930s the increasingly strong National
  Party (an all-white party) segregated African
  natives and used them as a means of
  ______________ ______________.
• World War II led to a boom in urban industrial
  companies jobs, wages and trade unions were on
  the rise for both whites and blacks.
• With all South Africans moving toward the cities
  for work, the rural areas became impoverished
  farms and farmers suffered.
• To retain their income, Afrikaner farmers unified
  as the Afrikaner Nationalist Alliance, demanding
  more political _____________________ over black
  South Africans. In 1948, the Afrikaner farmers
  would get what they wanted.

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Apartheid

• In ___________ the new race policy, Apartheid,
  institutionalized and enforced the already
  racially segregated South Africa.
• For the next 50 years, South Africans would be
  forced apart, imprisoned, and murdered in the
  name of _______________ domination.
• By the end of apartheid in ______________,
  hundreds of thousands of South Africans would be
  detained, tortured, or murdered.

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Major Points of Apartheid

• __________________development of South Africas
  four racial groups (Africans/blacks,
  Coloureds/mixed, Asians/Indians, Whites)
• Total white control
• The overruling of black interests for white
  interests
• The _____________________________ of whites
  (Dutch, Afrikaner, English, European)

Reference http//www.timelinetheatre.com/master_h
arold/MasterHarold_StudyGuide.pdf
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Slam Dunk Word of the Day

• EMPHATICALLY (5)
• WILLIE (Emphatically) I wasnt.
• adv. ___________________________________
• ___________________________________
• adj. emphatic
• Can you use this word in a sentence?

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Slam Dunk Word of the Day

• MIRTHLESSLY (17)
• HALLY (Mirthlessly) Ha, ha, ha.
• adv. __________________________________
• ___________________________________
• adj. mirthless n.mirth (joy)
• Can you use this word in a sentence?

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Slam Dunk Word of the Day

• AUDACITY (29)
• HALLY The sheer audacity of it took my breath
  away.
• n. ___________________________________
• ___________________________________
• adj.audacious
• Can you use this word in a sentence?

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Slam Dunk Word of the Day

• BRUSQUELY (33)
• HALLY Thats what hospitals are there for.
  (Brusquely) So dont just stand there!
• adv. __________________________________
• ___________________________________
• adj. brusque
• Can you use this word in a sentence?

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Slam Dunk Word of the Day

• SCOFF (41)
• HALLY My mothers got one of those, andits an
  embarrassment every time she wears it. (Hally
  scoffs)
• v. ___________________________________
• Can you use this word in a sentence?

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Slam Dunk Word of the Day

• AGHAST (45)
• SAM (Aghast) Hally . . . !
• adj. __________________________________
• Can you use this word in a sentence?

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Slam Dunk Word of the Day

• EBB (57)
• SAM (His violence ebbing away into defeat as
  quickly as it flooded)
• v. ___________________________________
• ___________________________________
• Can you use this word in a sentence?

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In-Class Paragraph Response

• How does Hally prove that he has become
  influenced by his fathers racism and is no
  longer an innocent child?
• Incorporate at least two specific details/quotes
  and explain.