Master Harold And The Boys Essay

In “Master Harold”...and the boys, Sam invites Hally and Willie to imagine lives transformed by courageously hopeful vision, but while Willie eventually embrace that vision, the play ends sadly when Hally condemns himself to hopeless cynicism when he repeatedly rejects this invitation and uses his imagination to defend himself against hope and to bruise others with his cynical pictures of a broken world. Throughout the play, Sam dives deep into his imagination and shows Willie and Hally a world that might have no racism, no war and everyone gets along without colliding with each other. Sam explains to Willie on how he can find romance with Hilda by just imagining everything. He tells Willie to pretend and “imagine she is Ginger Ross” so he can find his romance with Hilda. Sam tells Hally that there is no colliding with each during dancing and he compares that to “a dream about a world in which accidents don’t happen.” In a surprising manner, Hally accepts Sam’s imagination but Sam uses Hally words against him and says that “we’re bumping into each other all the time.” Sam uses dancing as a comparisons to achieving dreams. Practicing dancing is just like a dreamer would dream and to achieve towards their main goal.

At the end of the play Willie states “To hell with! I walk home”, showing his recognition of being a servant and the true society of South Africa. After thinking about his romances with Hilda, he goes on and takes Sam’s side and agrees to dream about a perfect world without “collisions”. Throughout the play Willie displays imagination by acting characters. He says, “Hally, are you there?”, imitating Hall’s mother of times when hally would hideout in their servant quarters. Willie is a foil of Hally but Hally lacks the imagination that Willie has and doesn’t agree with