I don’t think Olivia’s attitude towards the suttees shows any disloyality at all.
Her opposition against the “typical Brithish” views is founded in her boredom and the refusal of the other British people in Satipur.
What is called “infatuation” in the quote is only what all other British people in India miss: interest. She [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Olivia & The Suttees
Posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Some Stuff
Posted in Uncategorized on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
(a homework should be placed here soon )
Just wanted to say Happy Birthday to Mr. Mü and get well soon(er or later)! ;)
The unkempt European
Posted in Biography on April 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The unkempt European
This is a short biography of Morten On-Kuollu, me, and probably the last thing you will ever hear about me.
I am 30 years old and Finnish. But unfortunately, I am not in Finland, I am in India, this godforsaken hell of a country.
It is 1970 now, not quite two years after I followed [...]
Quotes
Posted in Uncategorized on April 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Quote IV.2
“Wherever the English settle, they never leave England.”
This quote was probably given by an Indian, who suffered from the culture he was forced to live in due to the British rule. On the one hand it contains the impeachment (Anklage) that the British would never assimilate to the culture of the land they are living in for the British people themselves; on the other hand it critizises the Brith government in the colonies, where the people are forced to live in a certain culture, which is not their own.
This could take effect because of something like a British ”Manifest Destiny” or just idleness.
