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Just before this conversation, Sam tells Hally that in prison, men are caned on their bare backsides. Hally is upset at this description, and argues that they should have progressed as a society. In this scene, Sam and Hally talk about greatness, and what counts as a great man. They compare their own ideas of “great men.”
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SAM: That’s the way it is, Hally.
HALLY: It doesn’t have to be that way. There is something called progress, you know. We don’t exactly burn people at the stake any more.
SAM: Like Joan of Arc.
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HALLY: It’s the likes of you that kept the Inquisition in business. It’s called bigotry. Anyway, that’s my man of magnitude. Charles Darwin! Who’s yours?
SAM: (without hesitation) Abraham Lincoln.
HALLY: I might have guessed as much. Don’t get sentimental, Sam. You’ve never been a slave, you know. And anyway we freed your ancestors here in South Africa long before the Americans.
Athol Fugard, “MASTER HAROLD” … and the boys, Vintage Books, 2009, pp.15-20.
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