The+Conqueror+and+Occupied+relationship+in+The+Kentucky+Cycle

In Robert Schenkkan's //The Kentucky Cycle//, the second of the work's nine plays is called, "The Courtship of Morning Star," and the play begins with an epigraph from Frantz Fanon that explores the relationship between conqueror and occupied. In the play itself, Michael Rowen, an Irishman who has recently escaped from indentured servitude and, through tremendous violence and inhumanity, has secured a plot of fertile land in the Cumberland plain. Feeling that he needs a wife with which to build a family, he goes to a neighboring Cherokee village, plagued by small pox, and kidnaps the daughter of the chief. The entire play, then, develops the idea within Fanon's quotation, that in a conqueror/occupied relationship, all interactions are a falsehood, for the victim of oppression, occupation, or even bullying will always want and try to overthrow a perpatrator of oppression and violence.