In Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act (first performed in 1972), Athol Fugard portrays the dilemma of human existence when an iniquitous state system and insular society impose restrictions on individual thought and freedom. Fugard’s dramatis personae show themselves not to be defeated by their predicament, but overcome devastating conditions and emerge as the designers of their own destinies when they establish social connections with others and make the choice to interpret their experiential world differently. Although other authors have depicted the plight of human beings surrounded by an all-encompassing, eternal futility, who, through self-awareness and courage, re-establish their humanity, make sense of their existences and discover their identity and potential, the existentialist theme of courage, perseverance and dignity in the face of despair has not been fully explored in a study of Fugard’s Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act. The drama will be critically analysed in terms of the concepts of choice and change in relation to time, and the creation of identity and meaning in the face of a degrading and dehumanizing social milieu, in particular South Africa’s previous political system of racial qualification and categorization.

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在绝望中寻找身份和意义：根据《不道德法》被捕后的阿索尔·富加德 (Athol Fugard) 的声明

在根据《不道德法案》（1972 年首次上演）被捕后的声明中，阿索尔·富加德描绘了当邪恶的国家制度和孤立的社会对个人思想和自由施加限制时，人类生存的困境。Fugard 的戏剧人物表现出他们没有被困境打败，而是克服了毁灭性的条件，当他们与他人建立社会联系并选择以不同的方式解释他们的体验世界时，他们成为自己命运的设计师。尽管其他作者描绘了被无所不包的、永恒的徒劳所包围的人类的困境，他们通过自我意识和勇气，重建了他们的人性，理解了他们的存在并发现了他们的身份和潜力，存在主义主题勇气，在对根据《不道德法》被捕后的富加德的言论进行研究时，在绝望面前的毅力和尊严尚未得到充分探讨。该剧将根据与时间有关的选择和变化的概念，以及在有辱人格和非人性化的社会环境，特别是南非以前的种族资格和分类政治制度下创造身份和意义的概念进行批判性分析。 .