The "China" group should answer TWO of the following...
Answer TWO of the following…
Answer TWO of the following…
Q1: How
does Rhys depict Jamaican society in the 1840’s (which is less than a decade
after the Emancipation Act of 1833, which abolished slavery in Britain)?
In what ways has life changed since the Act, particularly for Antoinette
and her family?
Q2: Is
Antoinette English? Jamaican? White?
Mulatto? Non-Western? Why is her identity an issue in this novel,
and how does she understand who she is in relation to other white people and
the islanders?
Q3: What
is “obeah” and how does it function in Caribbean society? How does Antoinette understand it as a
child? Is it similar to superstition or
karma? If
so, in what ways?
Q4: Why do
the natives burn Coulbiri Esate? What
might this represent about the relationship between Europeans and non-Europeans in the Caribbean? Also, why is the image of the parrot so haunting and possibly, symbolic?
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