"It"s a bloody awful world when you come to think of it. People can be real bastards." Hally, pp. 15 "Master Harold"... and the boys by Athol Fugard, is an informative text about the relationship between Hally, a 17 year old white boy, and Sam and Willie, two black men. As Hally falls victim to the attitudes of white supremacy and racial intolerances accompanying the Apartheid policy of the 1950"s, their lifelong friendship is destroyed. This "bloody awful world" referred to in the above quote is perpetuated by ignorance and the passiveness of its participants. One way to change these...
as "Master Harold" ... and the boys be included in the school"s curriculum in an effort to address societal inequalities. It is only when plays such as this are read by Australian children that they are made aware of man"s inhumanity to manz. Martin Luther King expressed the need for education and tolerance of other peoples in his famous speech:

"I have a dream. That one day our nation shall rise up and live out its creed. We hold these truths to be self - evident - that all men were created equal.." Martin Luther King, 1963, Washington D.C.