HAIR Read Through Discussion 2.
In this short clip, I am explaining my interpretation and opinion on how the play comes to an end.
In this scene Claude has just been shot and killed by a Vietnamese sniper with a rifle. The tribe enters and calls out his name, questioning his whereabouts - unaware of his disease. The scripts stage directions say ' CLAUDE : (Enters ,dressed in military uniform hollow eyed, pale, dead - but THEY do not see him, or hear HIM)'
My initial thoughts were that Claude doesn't yet realise that he has died and is now a ghost and is trying to respond to his friends calling out to him. After further exploration on the idea, I later believed that this scene may be symbolic to the fact that after Claude decided to go to war, he became dead to his friends because he became everything they were fighting against. So I believed they were giving him hostile silent treatment and were only acting as if he wasn't really there.
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