Gender in Heart of Darkness and Derek Walcott's poetry
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- Representations of gender in Heart of Darkness and Walcott's poetry
- Masculinity
- The role of male characters
- European
- Seen as leaders
- African
- Appreciated only for their labour
- The Narration is from a masculine persepctive
- Masculine narrative
- Link to Haggard's idea of a story for boys - no petticoats
- Masculinity
- The role of male characters
- European
- Seen as leaders
- African
- Appreciated only for their labour
- The Narration is from a masculine persepctive
- Masculine narrative
- Link to Haggard's idea of a story for boys - no petticoats
- Masculine narrative
- Centred on male characters
- Viewed as more important than the women
- The lover in Schooners flight
- only as a sexual object
- Only sees the women from a masculine persepctive
- There has not been as much change in the role of women as there has in colonialism
- The lover in Schooners flight
- Viewed as more important than the women
- European
- The role of male characters
- Masculine narrative
- Centred on male characters
- Viewed as more important than the women
- The lover in Schooners flight
- only as a sexual object
- Only sees the women from a masculine persepctive
- There has not been as much change in the role of women as there has in colonialism
- The lover in Schooners flight
- Viewed as more important than the women
- European
- The role of male characters
- Identity of women
- In relation only to men
- Kurtz's mistress & intended - not named
- Feminisation of Africa
- Maternal and caring qualities
- The harbour: they are seen to be welcoming - the narrator talking to his lover
- "The Safe twilight which your calm hands gave"
- The harbour: they are seen to be welcoming - the narrator talking to his lover
- Women are seen to represent Africa
- Kurtz's mistress
- The women in the poem 'Almond trees'
- Describe the women as being like the trees
- Feminine depictions of nature
- In a Green Night
- The orange tree is seen as a woman
- Allusions to Catholicism and the Virgin Mary
- Symbolism of purity and fertility
- Also, Used to represent the fall of man and their redemption
- Reflects the crimes of the colonial era and its legacy
- "Each overburdened bough"
- The weight of the past
- "Each overburdened bough"
- Reflects the crimes of the colonial era and its legacy
- The orange tree is seen as a woman
- In a Green Night
- "Aged trees and oiled limbs share a common colour"
- The shared heritage between the girls and the trees which came from Africa
- "Forked limbs"
- Feminine depictions of nature
- Describe the women as being like the trees
- Feminine depictions of nature
- In a Green Night
- The orange tree is seen as a woman
- Allusions to Catholicism and the Virgin Mary
- Symbolism of purity and fertility
- Also, Used to represent the fall of man and their redemption
- Reflects the crimes of the colonial era and its legacy
- "Each overburdened bough"
- The weight of the past
- "Each overburdened bough"
- Reflects the crimes of the colonial era and its legacy
- The orange tree is seen as a woman
- In a Green Night
- Maternal and caring qualities
- Contrast between identity of African and European women
- The intended is very frail and quite pathetic
- The Mistress is confident and power
- In relation only to men
- Sexism
- Focus of physical descriptions of women
- Their role - sexual objects
- "Bright girls"
- Suggestion of prostitution
- Sexual objectification and abuse
- "Bright girls"
- The inherent sexism of colonisalism
- Contemporary attitudes
- The role of slave girls in 'ruins of a great house'
- "Moth-like girls"
- "Bright girls"
- Suggestion of prostitution
- Masculinity
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