Manichean and Dichotomous Opposites in Athol Fugard s Blood Knot

This study undertakes an investigation of Fugard’s scathing condemnation of apartheid in his Blood Knot. Despite, his white skin, Fugard adopts a humanistic approach towards the oppressed South African natives who undergo dichotomous opposites in their pursuit for real selfhood and identity within a segregating millieu. His two protagonists Zach and Morrie fall within a dialectic endless cycle of reveral of roles between the ‘Self‘ and the ‘Other.’ Fugard attempts to find a possibility of survival and a new resistant image of the ‘Self’ that can step courageously on the way of change and independence in a world that is devoid rationalization. This personal resistance will turn by time to be a collective one that exmplifies Fugard s universal message.