The suttee
“Being in favour of a barbaric ritual like the suttee reveals Olivia to be unreasonable, naive and disloyal. Her infatuation with the Indian culture makes her ignore that oppression, barbarism and cruelty are rife in this country.”
Read pages 56 to 61 again and comment on the thesis above.
Links
If you haven’t already, skim through the pages you’ve read so far again and create a list of the links between the two plotlines. Do not only look at places but also at people, people’s behaviour and situations in the two plotlines.
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