Loyalty in HOD and LL
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- Created on: 13-06-20 11:29
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- Loyalty in 'Heart of Darkness' and 'The Lonely Londoners'
- Heart of Darkness
- Marlow's profound loyalty to Kurtz
- the Harlequin also possesses an overpowering loyalty to the integrity of what Kurtz has discovered in his descent into brutality
- Marlow's lying to Kurtz's Intended as a means through which to preserve Kurtz's image/an expression of his loyalty to Kurtz
- his untruth kills the meaning of Kurtz's death
- '...I did not envy him his devotion to Kurtz, though'
- unconscious loyalty
- loyalty/allegiance to imperialism/imperialist project /system of brutality
- Kurtz lacks promise and devotion - 'a wantal smash - up'
- 'It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice'
- Marlow's profound loyalty to Kurtz
- The Lonely Londers
- Tanty's loyalty to her West Indian roots/culture
- suggests Selvon's established allegiance to culture despite wanting to escape/evade parochialism
- creolised voice/narrative structurally preserves his West Indian heritage
- loyalty to authentic languages
- carnival and calypsonic structure
- loyalty to authentic languages
- creolised voice/narrative structurally preserves his West Indian heritage
- ethnic loyalty entrenched in adherence to customs
- a means through which to survive
- loyalty is invariable despite the striving to maintain illusion
- Tanty's refusal to assimilate
- she challenges systematic forms of exclusion and oppression
- excluded from fraternal solidarity and is thus the most effective agent of change
- 'Tanty in the lead'
- she challenges systematic forms of exclusion and oppression
- Tanty's refusal to assimilate
- Caribbean, a 'paradise', offers a far more cosmopolitan sense of diaspora where unity is forged and social solidarity prevails in comparison to London
- suggests Selvon's established allegiance to culture despite wanting to escape/evade parochialism
- loyalty to London
- Harris' loyalty to culture is replace by a profound loyalty to 'English customs and things'
- loyalty stems from the desire to sustain existence in a tense cultural climate
- Selvon draws a delicate balance between loyalties to cultural traditions and British state
- Tanty's loyalty to her West Indian roots/culture
- Heart of Darkness
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