A Lesson from Aloes

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Read Fugard’s Master Harold . . . and the Boys and compare its treatment of race relations in South Africa to those in A Lesson from Aloes. Does Fugard raise any new points in Master Harold about the tensions that arose between blacks and whites living under apartheid? Write a comparison and contrast paper on the two plays.

Fugard reveals the incident when the police took Gladys’s diaries only as a memory. Write a new scene that could be added to the play that would depict this important event, noting Gladys’s sense of betrayal and the beginning of her descent into...

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