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A 4 page analysis of the themes in Athol Fugard’s play “No-Good Friday.” Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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4 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAfugard.rtf
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plays, "No-Good Friday," is a play that takes place in the heart of South Africa and is a play that discusses the hopelessness and corruption of such a place. The
following paper examines the themes in this play and discusses how various characters embody those themes. No-Good Friday In better understanding some
of the themes in the play we look at the author himself. Fugard once studied philosophy but then turned to writing which is notable "marked by an experientially driven search
for truth and an attendant celebration of humanity, no matter how circumscribed the individuals material conditions" (McLuckie). His work generally focuses on the Eastern Cape region of South Africa where
he has essentially "charted the lives of the regions dispossessed" (McLuckie). His work has also been directed at apartheid which has "brought him great conflict with the South African government"
(ThinkQuest). In "No-Good Friday" we see just this sort of reality as one individual, Willie, stands up against the injustice of a town, represented in the township gangster. In Willies,
and other characters, struggles we are given many different outlooks that range from a sense of hope and hopelessness to dispossession. In looking at the various themes we examine a
few characters, primarily Willie, Guy, and Rebecca. The powerful characters that are representative of the corruption, through criminal injustice and apartheid, are not intricately discussed because they are an entity
that are quite obviously representative of the evil and corruption in the play. Guy is Willies friend and he is also an individual who apparently just wants to survive. He
is a man of hope in some ways, but also seems to realize that there is a clear hopelessness in their world or environment. In the beginning we see him
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