Abstract:
The South African playwright Athol Fugard has crafted more than twenty five plays based
on Apartheid South Africa, each of them prescribing a different solution to this malady
known as Apartheid for both his non-white and white characters. The three film plays
selected for this paper explore the period when the playwright seemed to suggest that self-
exile could effectively work against apartheid policies, so his characters withdraw from the
community and into themselves as a way of escaping the harsh conditions they find
themselves in. The study adopts psycho-analytic theory as propounded by Sigmund Freud
and enhanced by Carl Gustav Jung to explore the psychological conditions of the characters
as they react to their physical environments.
