Pretenders are worse than murderers | The Inheritance

“Pretenders are worse than murderers.” Write an easy to show the truthfulness of this statement basing your answer on the inheritance by David Mulwa.

Most people in any society may pretend that everything is alright, yet they do know that something is wrong.this is what David Mulwa demonstrates in his play The Inheritance.

Lacuna pretends to honour King Kutula xv during his commemoration. He says ‘let’s always remember with gratitude what my father the king did for us. On your behalf I shall now walk to the Royal grave to pay our continued National respects.’ Yet he was the one who killed the King in order to pave way for his leadership.

Lucuna also pretends that Judah’s death was as a result of faulty machines but he is the one who arranged his killing. We get to know this from Robert’s words. It was Murder for poor Judah, not the age of the machines as you would like the world to believe?

Bishop Menninger calls himself a man of God and teaches and adheres to the teachings of Christianity, but he is involved in plotting and poising of King Kutula xv. “……..it was time to bring Kutula back to dignity ……….”   “ ……… An then it happened ……. I must do it for her future… Menninger say so ……….”

Goldstein pretend to care about Katula citizens yet he advices Lacuna to reduce the work force, thus creating unemployment, more so the wages should be kept low, While the working hours are to be extended. This is unfair to the citizens. He also tricks Lacuna into taking loans and advices him to take drastic actions which will only benefit themselves “you will nationalize that valley and we shall occupy it.”

Meshack, the commander of Katula’s armed forces, is hypocritical. He pretend to be so much supportive to King Lacuna yet, we know that he is against his rush decisions. “I know sir. It’s hard to be a leader like you.” He flees for his life without notifying his master, when he sees that his end has come.

Thorne Macay and Bishop Menninger tell King Kutula XV that they have the interest ‘of his people at heart but behind his back, they plot his killing leading to the citizens of Kutula being left in the hands of a bad leader as Lacuna. They see that King Kutula XV doesn’t serve their interest, thus thinking Lacuna will serve their interest better.

In conclusion Lacuna, Goldenstein, Meshak, Bishop Menninger and Thorne are all hypocritical.