Empire Quotes
List of quotes and their analysis for the context part of the exam.
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- Empire
- POETRY
- The White Man's Burden, Kipling
- ‘Take up the White Man’s burden’
- Ironic, as colonisation is the burden of the natives not the whites (white attitude)
- ‘To seek another’s profit’
- Imperialism is for the natives, ironic
- ‘Half-devil and half-child’
- Metaphor, anthropomorphism, ambiguous, are they human + connotations
- ‘Take up the White Man’s burden’
- To India, Sarojini Naidu
- ‘Rise, Mother, rise’
- Personification, metaphor, imperatives = over come colonisation
- ‘Nations that in fettered
darkness weep / ... lead them where great mornings break'
- Darkness is a metaphor for colonisation / Light symbolic of independence = Antithesis between light & dark
- ‘Rise, Mother, rise’
- The White Man's Burden, Kipling
- PLAY
- AWoNI
- "Have you any country? What we should call country?"
- Questions show ignorance - dismissive of other cultures. Britain = epitome of what a country is
- "You must find it very draughty"
- Lady Caroline to Hester on America
- "Have you any country? What we should call country?"
- Questions show ignorance - dismissive of other cultures. Britain = epitome of what a country is
- "Have you any country? What we should call country?"
- Connotations of empty / boring
- Patriotic and narrow minded love if England & an assumed superiority
- Lady Caroline to Hester on America
- "As far as civilisation goes they are in their second"
- Lord Illingworth of America
- England 1st, America 2nd
- "Have you any country? What we should call country?"
- AWoNI
- PROSE
- Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
- ‘Their limbs were like knots in a rope’
- Simile / emotive = suffering
- Symbolic of their entrapment
- "Red-devils"
- How he describes the white colonists
- Red religious imagery (devil is repeated)
- Anger, lust and greed of the white man
- ‘Their limbs were like knots in a rope’
- Flora Annie Steel
- "Castor oil" = "Mistress' duty"
- Steel on her treatment of the Indian Slaves
- Ironic, she believes she is being humane and justified
- "what absolute children Indian servants are"
- Metaphor / repeated motif of children = uneducated, need of sophistication
- British superiority
- "Castor oil" = "Mistress' duty"
- Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
- POETRY
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