Politics of reconciliation in Fugard's Master Harold...and the boys and valley

Abstract

This dissertation on A thol Fugard’s Master Harold . . . and the boys and Valley Song which shows politics of reconciliation in terms of racism, apartheid and the concept of othering to disclose how the representatives of white like Hally and Author discriminate and dominate the others especially blacks and colored. The whites create the situation of assault and violence to legitimize their superiority upon the blacks and colored. In these plays, the white characters try to reconcile themselves with their black counterparts. They treat the blacks as brothers and sisters and try to show sympathy towards their miseries. This kind of the behaviour involves the politics. Because they use this reconciliatory behaviour to dominate the black people and camouflage their crime inflicted upon the blacks and colored.