Power Relations: Strong Emotional Impact

Your University of Affiliation Power Relations Your Name Your Subject and Section Professor’s Name April 17, 2018 Arrivals and departures of individual characters in the stage are strong purveyors of emotional impact that affects how the viewers perceive the whole piece. Most of the time, this is created by a kind of emotional attachment between the character’s personality and the viewers, which could intensify as the bond becomes untethered due to that character leaving the stage. Such as the case of Jack’s death in the Titanic and even the return of Dantes in The Count of Monte Cristo, the creation or unraveling of this thread is useful to keep the play exciting. To further assert this knowledge, this study would utilize two notable plays of the 1950s, namely Master Harold and the Boys and A Streetcar Named Desire. While both of them are famous for the amount of attention and attachment that they created, what piqued my interest the most was the profound reflections that it shows regarding a character’s death or return. All in all, I believe that by analyzing these elements and identifying how they are portrayed, one could see that these leaves and returns from notable characters in this two pieces emphasize that central themes of the story. While both of the plays focus on a man vs. man plot, they are different regarding how they conflict ensued between each of them. On the one hand, Master Harold and the Boys focus on the story of how Sam wanted his friend (Harold) from falling into the apartheid beliefs that would ruin his good nature. On the other hand, the story of A Streetcar Named Desire portrayed a more common conflict between Stanley and Blanche. One that is characterized by the battle between man vs. woman. Nonetheless, what is worth noting is that to emphasize this emotional struggle between the two pairs of characters each of the play utilized a different point of view to do so. For Master Harold and the Boys, a third-person point of view is used to show the themes are more objective and distant from any influences from the public. By using an omniscient being in telling the story, Harold’s departure (from being his friend towards being otherwise) was instilled with an emotional attribute without being offensive to the audience. As already stated earlier, this play was created and played duri...