Mary. Delicate. Feminism. Portrayed to be fragile, not strong in handling murder.
Fisherman's wife. Mrs. Smith.
Hindoo servant, clad in a yellow turban, white loose-fitting clothes, and a yellow sash.
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Dehumanizing his india servant. Exoticis.
Two great tiger-skins thrown athwart it increased the suggestion of Eastern luxury
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Tiger Skin, as if every Indian there will have tiger skin. Eastern luxury, taking away the normal.
A lamp in the fashion of a silver dove was hung from an almost invisible A lamp in the fashion of a silver dove was hung from an almost invisible
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The description of lamp. Add sentual feelings, as it relate to people's senses.
English versus Indian
It was soothing to catch even that passing glimpse of a tranquil English home in the midst of the wild, dark business which had absorbed us.
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Tranquility. Domestic. Women was held inside home, kind like architectures.
case. As we drove away I stole a glance back, and I still seem to see that little group on the step—the two graceful, clinging figures, the half-opened door, the hall-light shining through stained glass, the barometer, and the bright stair-rods. It was soothing to catch even that passing glimpse of a tranquil English home in the midst of the wild, dark business which had absorbed us.
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India
Racism in the story. Is the story presnted as the grain and against grain? Small using that languages. Against grain.
Tonga
It was that little hellhound, Tonga,
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He was perceived as an annimal. There is no dialog from him, he does not have any voice. Small has no control over Tonga.
Tonga is read as Childish.
Essntializing. Biological markers can determine personality. E.g. Women are all nurturing. If woman don't fit into that category, it would be bad. Limit people to the same characters.
Racism portrayed is essentailizing.
Treasure
-As "a golden barrier" between Wastson and Mary. As readers, marriage plot obstructs the English two heros.
-People die for treasure.
-A juxtaposition
It was an evil day for me when first I clapped eyes upon the merchant Achmet and had to do with the Agra treasure, which never brought anything but a curse yet upon the man who owned it. To
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Treasure as a curse. As contamination/comtajion.
“‘I have only one thing,’ he said, ‘which weighs upon my mind at this supreme moment. It is my treatment of poor Morstan’s orphan. The cursed greed which has been my besetting sin through life has withheld from her the treasure, half at least of which should have been hers. And yet I have made no use of it myself, so blind and foolish a thing is avarice. The mere feeling of possession has been so dear to me that I could not bear to share it with another. See that chaplet tipped with pearls beside the quinine-bottle. Even that I could not bear to part with, although I had got it out with the design of sending it to her. You, my sons, will give her a fair share of the Agra treasure. But send her nothing—not even the chaplet—until I am gone. After all, men have been as bad as this and have recovered.
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Treasure is described to accompany greed. Unhappiness/guilt. A feeling of possession. He is being controlled by it and he loses his power.
1857, Eastern Indian Company. Bussiness monopoly. Structure of colonialism. Millitary take-over for trade and bussiness. "Imperial Project" by Victorian Quenn. They want to colonize 1/2 of the world.
1857. Sepoy mutiny.
Colonialism. Resources. Erase the culture of the territory (supress language, under the violence of occupation)
1847/48. Invention of photography.
England want to no longer be seen as brutal, but rational. The emergence of Sherlock Holmes.
Whether the treasure is stolen becuase it is stolen or it is brought from Indian as exotic.
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