Honour Killing
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- Created on: 05-04-19 11:24
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- Honour Killing - Imtiaz Dharker
- Stanza 1
- disowning an identity
- "at last" tells the reader that they are looking at the end of a journey for someone
- she disowns her "coat" a garment meant to shield a person from harsh weather -tells the reader she has decided to step away from protection
- she says she wore the coat "out of habit" conveys she placed very little thought and heart behind it
- disowning the coat and giving justifications as to why she feels the need to renounce it
- "born wearing it" "believed [she] had no choice" gives the impression of a complicated history with the coat
- Stanza 2
- a declaration that she's getting rid of the veil
- shows a religious and cultural background
- not just the physical veil she is disowning but also the 'faith that made [her] faithless" -she is struggling to connect with the person she used to be
- she doesn't want to be hidden behind a veil figuratively speaking and literally
- holding onto the veil was an injustice to herself and her true identity
- 'tied my mouth" emphasising she was restrained and could not express herself
- the narrators anger and resentment to her previous self is evident saying the veil gave her 'god a devil's face'
- Difficult to speak up against something that is deeply embedded in your community and culture
- Stanza 3
- her culture began to ***** her of her independence and unique identity
- doesn't want others go decide how her body should be dressed
- frees herself from the "silks" that are embedded in the culture to enhance her femininity
- takes off her cultural jewellery stating that abiding by her cultural dress code she had been "beggared' of her true self.
- dressing traditionally makes her feel trapped and *****ped of any kind of individuality
- Stanza 4
- statement of independence and freedom
- shortest stanza allows it to focus on the message and draw attention to the importance of it
- announcing that she is "taking off this skin"
- Skin being the most intimate garment and being essential part of anyone's identity
- she is detaching herself at every level from this culture that dictates who she should be
- "the face, the flesh, the womb" taking away the intimate connections a person has to their identity and her femininity
- by disowning these she emphasises how deeply she wishes to sever her ties to the person and identity she one owned
- "the face, the flesh, the womb" taking away the intimate connections a person has to their identity and her femininity
- she is detaching herself at every level from this culture that dictates who she should be
- Skin being the most intimate garment and being essential part of anyone's identity
- Stanza 5
- begins with "let's see" which implies she is moving forward to the future focusing on self analysis
- she wants to know if she can take these stands when the ideas and emotions of her heart "squeeze past the easy cage of bone"
- when her ideologies leave her body and meet the world will she continue to stand up for herself
- Stanza 6
- she has made the choice and has come "out" of the cultural dictatorship she has been enduring
- "making, crafting, plotting" convey she is working towards becoming a person who creates plans for herself rather than following expectations of society.
- "new geography" suggests she has moved herself physically to somewhere her identity is accepted
- Stanza 1
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