Compare and contrast three plays: George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire, and Athol Fugard's Master Harold... And...

The
three plays are similar in that all three are written in English. One play is set in England,
and the other two are set in former colonies; Louisiana, currently in the United States, was
formerly in a colony of France and Spain; South Africa was formerly a Dutch and British
colony.

All three plays have class change and class conflict at their center.
In , the people are English and all of white European heritage. Eliza
Doolittle's family, however, like many working-class English people at the time, is of Irish
heritage, as was Shaw himself. In Streetcar, the class conflict is also
between white people. Although set in the U.S. South, there are no black characters. The old,
French heritage, plantation-based society of the DuBois family is contrasted to the newer
Eastern European immigrant, working class, embodied by the Polish-heritage Stanley Kowalski. In
Master Harold , the class conflict is distinctly
racial, as "Master" Harold is of the ruling class and the men in service
to...