The two plays, "MASTER HAROLD" . . . and the boys, and Oleanna show us quite a bit about the impact of power on an individual's behavior. In other words they show how when an individual gains power or discovers that he or she has power over other people it can result in conflict. The conflict can be a result of the person who has discovered that they have power as Hally did in "MASTER HAROLD" . . . and the boys. Or the conflict can be the result of someone who sees that another person has power and is jealous of that person the way that Carol was towards John in Oleanna.
The thing that makes these two characters have two different kinds of power is in the way in which it was acquired. Hally seemed to think that he had some how acquired the power to be the master of Sam and Willie. I do not put all of the blame on Hally because it was mostly due to his upbringing. He was born to a household that taught him to think that whites were better than blacks simply because of the......

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Title: Authority+Might=Power
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