Homework for Monday, March 31st

1. Quote III: “As long as we rule India we are the greatest power in the world. If we lose it, we shall drop straight to a third rate power” 

I guess that quote was given by an English man with a high position in Britain politics, because he’s able to value Great Britain’s predominance and its power in the world. He describes India as the greatest and most important colony for the British and emphasizes that his country wouldn’t have such a supremacy in the world without India as a colony. India offers many advantages e.g. a great market which is one of the facts that make India such an important colony for the British.   

2.  Anglo- Indian relationship in the past and today 

For the British, India was the most important colony which helped them to keep their supremacy in the world because of the trade channel, the cheap raw materials and good resources. In contrast, the Indian people regarded the British as invaders who didn’t attachimportance to adapt to the Indian culture, but to oppress the Indian population. Today India is independent and the relationship between India and Britain is much better. In addition, India became poised and an international economic power. 

Heat and Dust

HEAT

1. Who do you think Olivia and Douglas are?

I think Olivia and Douglas are a married couple. Probably they’re two rich English people because they have house servants.

2. Where are they?

The couple lives in a British Colony, where they have a luxurious life with some servants and a house of their own. The arabic words ‘Sahib’ or ‘Memsahib’ point at the fact that they’re living in India.

3. What are they arguing about?

Olivia is unhappy with her situation as a British woman living in a colony far away from her accustomed life in England. She can’t stand the heat and doesn’t understand what her husband likes about this place. She wants to go back to England.

4. How is the quarrel resolved?

Olivia lays the blame on herself, but Douglas blames the heat for everybody’s (especially Olivia’s) reactions.

5. Do you feel that unpleasant heat can have an effect in emotions? Have you ever experienced anything like that?

Yes, I think heat can have an effect in emotions. Indeed, I have never really experienced something like that, but I can imagine that heat can change your physical situation, so your mental condition and your emotions as well.

  

DUST

1. What are your feelings when you are confronted with the description of such a landscape?

When I think about such a landscape I don’t see boundless freedom and happiness, because a landscape with heat and dust isn’t comparable with other sceneries with neither heat nor dust. The unpleasant heat makes me feel uncomfortable, dust creates an impression of emptiness ans barren land.

2. Explain why you would or would not like to travel or live there.

Actually I would like to travel there, because I like travelling and getting to know other cultures. I guess it’s really important to learn about other living-conditions to realize that living in an agreeable climate isn’t a matter of course.

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