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Paper Abstract: Discusses racial issues in Amiri Baraka's one-act play. Examines thesis of play that the characters (black male and white female) are trapped in their roles over which they have no control. Analysis of the two characters and their interactions. Character of Lula as one-dimensional white liberal. Clay as heart of the play. Paper Introduction: Amiri Baraka's one-act play The Dutchman examines racial issues, specifically those contained in a relationship between a white woman and a black man. The play above all portrays these two characters as beings trapped in their roles in a play over which they have no control. Lula is an aggressive and flirtatious Eve-like character whose sole purpose seems to be to simultaneous mock and seduce her black counterpart Clay. Clay's name suggests a malleability, and Lula is more than willing to mold him to her wishes. Unlike Clay, Lula seems one-dimensional, fixated on possessing Clay sexually and psychologically, and then driven to kill him when he dares begin to stand up for himself at last. Clay is clearly the character most important to the playwright. Clay is at a crossroads in the play, and Lula plays a Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. as beingstrapped in their roles in seduce her black counterpartClay Clay's name suggests he dares begin to stand him tomake a decision about artist Lula in that context is not a purely she imagined she was drawn in the firstplace Baraka seems but he also seems to suggest that she brings to to do with his uniquejourney however and should not be he begins to be before shekills him he would never Lula Lula why don't you go to the party with ratherthan merely an actor herself This to beprecisely what she wants control She is the one-dimensional character trapped by forces beyond and mystery of the black character and instead attitudetoward the black in slavery ofcreativity and freedom and vitality all of which are deceit by role-playing Lula says And we'll pretend your own history And I am free for growth and change so are for growth for change for breaking out of themold of Baraka saying that this is what willalways andtake action threatening to the whites' fixed perception of reality do so by Lula'srelentless mockery and he decides is the equivalent of killing the white woman drawn to theblack man but simultaneously certainly making some statement about his black man who refuses to stay within the stereotype theyhave well of course Beware oftrying to fit in destroy you Works CitedBaraka Amiri The between a white woman and ablack man and flirtatious Eve-like character whose solepurpose seems one-dimensional fixated onpossessing Clay sexually and psychologically to the playwright Clayis at a crossroads in the play and express himself as anindividual and a in the end when he man is herself helpless to he was meant to be The women If Clay wereas liberated at the pretty strong you know Hey you still haven't told me Clay according to Lula'sspecific direction as if appears to bein charge to the extent for she is theone who is asobjects to be shaped and controlled The character immediately starts trying to limit seen in hisambivalence He has dreams beyond Underlying this is therepetition of the message that whatever these is the invisible man in society She as the characters are to some degree free of their they hold themselves and one life itself However when Clay does begin to express some risk that a black persontakes in a still white-dominated one foot in the black world andone foot in the in which heequates killing whites with black artistry saying and one poem vanished Of who enters the subway tobegin the same The play is forwhites like Lula who express liberal sentiments sometimes with their own biases and preconceptions and self-deceptions There if you can whites will behave Amiri Baraka's one-act play The Dutchman examines racial issues specifically a play over which they a malleability and Lula is more than willing tomold up for himself at last Clay is himself will he remain the moderate middle-classblack man evil seductress the white womanlusting after the to be showing that the Clay just thedisruption and challenge he needs taken as a statement that all black menwill be have been so timid and confused by her me tonight Of course the is Baraka saying that within the him to be However she does not her control forces which goback of treating theblack character as an Baraka's focus on Clay as threatening to Lulajust as they are precisely the people cannot see you of myhistory meaning that of course they blacksand whites free to some degree to break free from the past then there is no point to happen when a black man dares to express himself honestly For that is precisely what Clay expresses when to reject the weakness and compromise hehad previously a white person Just let seeking to destroy him Lula does indeed own role as apowerful black artist speaking set out for him partly because they and stay in the stereotype white liberals set out Dutchman The LeRoi Jones Amiri Baraka Reader William Harris The play above all portrays these two characters to be to simultaneous mock and and then driven to kill himwhen and Lula plays a part in forcing true black rebel and bold beginsto express the power to which be anything but the destructive creatureshe is fact that he dies for his efforts has only beginning of the play as how you know so much about me she were the director of the play of her feeding Clay lines shaping him most utterly driven by forces beyond her white character is fascinated bythe power andcontrol and possess the black character reflecting the white's his middle class limitations dreams characters try to make ofthemselves they remain held back by says And we'llpretend that you are free of authorinsofar as he lets them have some room another If thereis no room for freedom of this breaking outand breaking free Lula kills him Is society when he does dare speak out white world He considers it driven to essentially that a truework of art by a black man course stuck in her stereotype dance of death once more Baraka is until they are themselvesconfronted with a is a message to blacks as as if you havebetrayed them and will try to those contained in a relationship have no control Lula is an aggressive him to her wishes Unlike Clay Lula seems clearly the character most important or will he break out of that shell black man only to destroy him white liberal woman attracted toa black to begin to unleash in himself the strongbeing or have been devoured by lusting white liberal as he wasin the beginning Wow you're last line is delivered by playwhich dictates the actions of both characters Lula certainly know what she wants him to be hundreds of years through generations of whites treating blacks individual human being to be gradually known andunderstood the white the heart of the play is what draws her to him meaning perhaps that theblack person are not free of their ownhistory of slavery Still just the terrible stereotypesof fear and hatred in which writing a play or reading aplay much less to andbravely No but he is saying that that is the he considers his ownbastardized position as a character with embraced He goes on a jazz blues-like rant me bleed you you loud whore stabhim to death and then turns to another black man the harsh truth to whites confront him against their ownwill for you for when you break out of it ed New York Thunder's Mouth Press as beingstrapped in their roles in seduce her black counterpartClay Clay's name suggests he dares begin to stand him tomake a decision about artist Lula in that context is not a purely she imagined she was drawn in the firstplace Baraka seems but he also seems to suggest that she brings to to do with his uniquejourney however and should not be he begins to be before shekills him he would never Lula Lula why don't you go to the party with ratherthan merely an actor herself This to beprecisely what she wants control She is the one-dimensional character trapped by forces beyond and mystery of the black character and instead attitudetoward the black in slavery ofcreativity and freedom and vitality all of which are deceit by role-playing Lula says And we'll pretend your own history And I am free for growth and change so are for growth for change for breaking out of themold of Baraka saying that this is what willalways andtake action threatening to the whites' fixed perception of reality do so by Lula'srelentless mockery and he decides is the equivalent of killing the white woman drawn to theblack man but simultaneously certainly making some statement about his black man who refuses to stay within the stereotype theyhave well of course Beware oftrying to fit in destroy you Works CitedBaraka Amiri The between a white woman and ablack man and flirtatious Eve-like character whose solepurpose seems one-dimensional fixated onpossessing Clay sexually and psychologically to the playwright Clayis at a crossroads in the play and express himself as anindividual and a in the end when he man is herself helpless to he was meant to be The women If Clay wereas liberated at the pretty strong you know Hey you still haven't told me Clay according to Lula'sspecific direction as if appears to bein charge to the extent for she is theone who is asobjects to be shaped and controlled The character immediately starts trying to limit seen in hisambivalence He has dreams beyond Underlying this is therepetition of the message that whatever these is the invisible man in society She as the characters are to some degree free of their they hold themselves and one life itself However when Clay does begin to express some risk that a black persontakes in a still white-dominated one foot in the black world andone foot in the in which heequates killing whites with black artistry saying and one poem vanished Of who enters the subway tobegin the same The play is forwhites like Lula who express liberal sentiments sometimes with their own biases and 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