The Dutchman

Temptation, lunacy, and circulation can represent the play Dutchman.  The motif of the events in this play based on the temptation of the human.  Clay, the middle-class black who wants to be a poet and live as a rational white gentleman conveys his desire to be a member of white society during the play.  For instance, despite the rudeness of Lula, who insults him as an Uncle Tom, Clay obeys her and ignores her rudeness due to this temptation.  This submissive attitude based on his craving for sex with Lula represented through the scene he receives an apple from her.  This apple symbolizes eve’s apple which implies depravity and loss of Clay's identity which leads him into a downfall.
In contrast, Lula flirts with him and convey her temptation to dominate Clay.  During the play, she struggles to control him, and when Clay disobeys her intent, she behaves hysterically.  This response might imply a crude desire of white in that era which cannot stand the success of black.  Based on her behavior and comments, Lula, this extraordinarily impolite woman, is hard to regard as socially successful.  Thus, her action which derides the intelligence of Clay and let him an object of ridicule in front of the public may derive from the sense of inferiority and verify her superiority.  Also, other whites inside the train show their supports for her by laughing at Clay.  This scene discloses whites' hostility over the successful blacks and their exclusive action not to let them into whites' upper-class society during the era of transition respecting human rights of Black Americans.    
These temptations reveal through the lunacy of Lula.  Primarily, Lula's abnormal behavior stimulates the desire of Clay by deteriorating his rationality.  These attractions with lunacy perform inside the private space, empty room, which let Clay could cast off his rationality and intelligence, disclosing his naked desire.  As more people get into the train and space moves from private to public, Clay realizes their actions inside the train are inappropriate and shows regret and shame.  Therefore, Lula insults him through blues and jazz with vulgar dance to stimulate Clay.  It seems that her feeling becomes boosted by mocking him.  Her lunacy spreads to other people inside the train.  Thus, this tensed feeling spreads to Clay and leads to his wrath as an oppressed black man, slapping Lula.  Also, this leads the passengers to participate in hiding Clay's body and look at his death.  This lunacy makes the play more provocative and utilizes it as a communication method to show human malignancy and the naked dark side of that era, unveiling hostility on Black. 
Circulation is another crucial theme of this play.  This circulation represents a train, circulation of passengers, and the first and last scene, meeting of Lula with a young black male.  This circulation implies though the era has changed, the tragedy of blacks who oppressed metaphorically expressing as trains circulating the outer of the city.  The antagonism and unjust violence over black like Lula would be continuous such as in the last scene.  Also, the circulation of ostracism on black continues like a train that cannot reach the heart of the city but circulating the outside. 
While watching this play, uncomfortableness manipulated oneself due to the provocative expression; sex, murder, and violence.  However, this play highlights the pain of black people who had to experience suffering in the era of transition from slave to freeman while they fought for freedom and human right.  Also, the dialogue of Lula was impressive: "I lied a lot, it helps me control the world (Baraka, 1967)." This dialogue denotes the white men's history of lies toward black, Indians, and minorities promising the better world and betraying, stabbing the knife into their heart to dominate them better.  
It is true that the actors' performance in this play was worthy of close attention, it was vivid and tensed.  Also, the stage set which makes audiences feel like they are inside the train improves a sense of realism.  However, the most successful point of this play was that this play succeeded to lead to the high involvement of the audience.  People sighed and turned their eyes from play due to the unethical behavior of bystander, Lula, and Clay.  Their sexual scene and murder let people uncomfortable, and this draws questions from the audience through presuming the implication of uncomfortableness.  Also, it was impressive as it has a discussion session after the play.  Between the interaction between actors to audience and audience to audience, this play provided an opportunity to intensify audiences' insight by sharing the opinions.
This play instructs the fate of strangers, a malignancy of human beings, and the history of hostility and discrimination.  After watching this play, the uncomfortableness makes people suffer as still there are numerous barriers that segregate minorities from the majorities.  Though the passengers are human who has red blood and bleeding heart when it got hurts, violations and discrimination were there. It was not hard to cast out the minority from the mainstream.  Still, there is news that black people sacrifice by unjust antagonism and it is also true that black people are hard to be one of the upper-class members.  According to the statistics indicating the upper-middle-class population of black is only one-sixth of white (Reeves, 2017).  Also, it is not hard to imagine there is more missing black murdered by the majority not only physically but also socially like Clay beyond the long history of racism.  The only way to break this cruel circulation might be love and interest from the heart.  If Lula has respect and love for Clay, or some of the passengers do not turn their eyes from injustice, it may be possible to expect a more optimistic ending such as all passengers can arrive at the right station.