Hortense mind map
- Created by: OpheliaE
- Created on: 01-12-16 13:56
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- Hortense Joseph nee Roberts
- Fails to raise her sanding in the class order by using proper pronunciation-shows multicultural and Levy's embrace of this.
- Not different because she's black, she tries to change herself as she sees herself in a higher class.
- [Queenie to Hortense] I beg you're pardon?'
- She struggles to realise why they don't understand the difference between Britain and Jamaica.
- 'But still this taxi driver did not understand me'
- 'It took me several attempts at saying the address to the driver of the taxi vehicle before his gace lit with recognition.
- Not different because she's black, she tries to change herself as she sees herself in a higher class.
- Has high expectations of England and Gilbert.
- Reflected in her name as she is both 'haughty' and 'tense'
- Her high expectations become ironic towards the end of the play, as she describes Gilbert as a fool when she is in fact a fool.
- Believes her 'golden skin' is superior in a country o darker skins. This idea is maintained in Enlgand despite the people there having lighter skin. .
- [Hortense about Queenie] 'dressed in a scruffy housecoat with no brooch or jewel, no glove or even a pleasant hat to lift the look a little.
- 'I did not dare to dream that it would one day be I who would go to England.
- The 'insufferable' Hortense has Queenly expectations, which she regards as her destiny.
- 'And Hortense... fresh from a ship, England had not yet deceived her. But soon it will.'
- 'Just this.'
- Shown as rude by Levy, her attitude to other people and situations.
- A feeling of superiority is natural to her as shown by her belief that she is always right.
- 'The house I could see, was shabby'
- 'Don't Hortense me, Gilbert Joseph'
- The sound of my father's name could still hush a room long after he had left Savannah-La-Mar.
- Fails to raise her sanding in the class order by using proper pronunciation-shows multicultural and Levy's embrace of this.
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