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“Master Harold and the boys” written by Athol Fugard is play set in the apartheid of South Africa in the 1950. This reflect the racism abuse black people suffered from white people. Regarding the effort that was being made by the community, they still lost the discrimination and inequality kept growing until a point where people started to fight for their liberty. I this essay I’m going to focus on the different ways ballroom dancing reflects and describes the constant roughness there was in South Africa from to different communities, how Fugard connect both culture with one same motif and the relationship between the culture, starting from the friendship Harold and Sam establish at the begging of the book. Social groups are sometime represented with different stereotype. This may include their appearance, language, style, or manners that define certain social group. In this case, Fugard represents South Africans creating a stereotype, creating characters like Willie that represents the cultural context of the play. In the play we see difference in language like “hiding” mentioned by Willie and the constant “Boet Sam”. While Hally has had the opportunity to achieve good education we manage to see the difference in education there is between to closely related people, but separate by a racism. We acquire the idea of poor people when we talk about working class, while we think about the rich people on the high class. This thriving thought differed from the dream people had in the apartheid. In addition, this were very difficult time for the South Africans and this could be supported by the book when Sam and Willie have the desire to learn. The contrast to it, is that Hally has already been educated and has the ability to apply his ... ... middle of paper ... ...maybe Fugard is Foreshadowing what might happens I the white society tries to overcome the black society. To conclude it can be said that the 2 souranding culture that affected South Africa in the 1950, where the building block to what South Africa is now. The idea of presenting the 2 points of view in one single play and allowing it to demonstrate the personal feeling of different character reflects the idea that Fugard wants a better place for the South African regime. I think the idea of using dance to critize the society show how important this is for Fugard and describing how beauty and perfection is achieved in dancing that isn’t achieved between people of different nations, beliefs and economic status is just a starting point to a better future for South Africa. Works Cited http://www.studymode.com/essays/Master-Harold-And-The-Boys-Written-Task-861920.html