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The Master-Servant Relationship In Africa

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Since the society has been classified according to the races, whites believe that they should not have any normal relationship with other races, because white people consider the other races as less human. They believe that the only relationship they with the other people from different races is the master-servant relationship which is common in Africa. The Afrikaners have to serve the white without complaining of the work or the treatment they receive from their masters. The Afrikaners have no right to protest or complain. The narrator utters this fact: “[w]hen it came to the point, one never had contact with natives, except in the master-servant relationship. One never knew them in their own lives, as human beings” (GS 18). Moreover, anyone …show more content…

Breaching the common norm or practice, one will be rejected and criticized out of his bad treatment with the servants. For instance, Charlie, a land owner, has protested the way Moses speaks to Mary and the tone Mary has used while speaking to him. His objection shows that she speaks to Moses as a white man which makes him equal to Charlie. In such a relation, the servant also does not obey his masters since he has a close relationship with his master. The narrator illuminates this situation in the following …show more content…

Because of this conviction, whites treat their servants badly since they can commit these crimes. Harold Bloom states this fear of African in this quotation: “the books contextualize colonial fear of the unpredictability and unreliability of black Africans” (141). Since a black is not afraid of anything, they see their servants as criminals who are used to commit these crimes without fearing the punishment. Mary always treats her servants in an inhumane way because she is totally sure that they will commit these crimes. Mary believes that her servants are used to lying to get some of their rights or even to take some rest. The narrator says: Samson [a servant] gave notice that evening, on the grounds that he was needed in his Kraal. Mary began to question him closely as to why he was needed; but Dick touched her arm warningly and shook his head. “Why shouldn’t I ask him?” she demanded. “He’s lying, isn’t he?” “Of course he’s lying,” said Dick irritably. “Of course.” That is not the point. You can’t keep him against his well.” “Why should I accept a lie?” said Mary. “Why should I? Why can’t he say straight out that he doesn’t like working for me, instead of lying about his kraal?” (GS

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