me to stand straight. You know what that is? Listen now. I am going to use a word. Freedom! Ja, I have heard them talk it. Freedom! That’s what the White man gave us. I have got my feelings too, sister. It was a big I had when I stood there. That’s why I laughed, why I was happy. When we picked up our things and started to walk I wanted to sing. It was freedom! (203)”. Boesman is taking the whole apartheid situation as a joke or something he can joke with. Their homelessness and have said that the “white man did them a favour”, this signifies the ignorance of not knowing the meaning of freedom itself he does not know what it is that he had been free from.
The beating happens at the very same places they walk all the time they move to. According …show more content…
First time. After that, Redhouse, Bethelsdorp, Korsten, Veeplaas, back here the second time. Then Missionvale again, Veeplaas, Korsten, and then here, now. (196). This means that the couple is always going which always leads them to nowhere signifies their existence in carrying the struggle for surviving.
Characterisation of Boesman and Lena and the Old man are developed in the play in presenting the human condition. Fugard present Boesman as a very angry man in the play he uses his masculinity to against his wife to find power and control over her failing to love and provide a sense of empathy for his wife. He raises his remarks by beating or threatening. He releases the frustration of not being in control of his life with anger, stating: “We’re white man’s rubbish!” (181), this explains how he feels about himself specifically to the living conditions his facing with his wife. Lot, He still believes in the patriarchal power not paying attention that he has lost all his power as a man in his own land and his arrogance reveals his psychopath etic behaviour in the play. We find Boesman considering himself better compared to the old man and yelling “he is not one of us” his ignorance signifies his defeat by the oppression of the apartheid segregation regime. Lena is presented as a
The beating happens at the very same places they walk all the time they move to. According …show more content…
First time. After that, Redhouse, Bethelsdorp, Korsten, Veeplaas, back here the second time. Then Missionvale again, Veeplaas, Korsten, and then here, now. (196). This means that the couple is always going which always leads them to nowhere signifies their existence in carrying the struggle for surviving.
Characterisation of Boesman and Lena and the Old man are developed in the play in presenting the human condition. Fugard present Boesman as a very angry man in the play he uses his masculinity to against his wife to find power and control over her failing to love and provide a sense of empathy for his wife. He raises his remarks by beating or threatening. He releases the frustration of not being in control of his life with anger, stating: “We’re white man’s rubbish!” (181), this explains how he feels about himself specifically to the living conditions his facing with his wife. Lot, He still believes in the patriarchal power not paying attention that he has lost all his power as a man in his own land and his arrogance reveals his psychopath etic behaviour in the play. We find Boesman considering himself better compared to the old man and yelling “he is not one of us” his ignorance signifies his defeat by the oppression of the apartheid segregation regime. Lena is presented as a