THE EMPRESS QUOTES!!! Flashcards
(12 cards)
“The Africans are not enslaved anymore but how can your power as a monarch be kept just and fair?”
POWER - ABDUL = although slavery has officially ended, there are still deep injustices in the empire ALTHOUGH QUEEN SHE LACK GENUINE POWER AND KNOWLEDGE
you are the most powerful and respected monarch in the world. Might I ask, when will you make it [Munshi] official?
POWER ABDUL = Greed for power and class in flattery tone
So much power in her [Victoria’s] hands. The lands she ruled gravitated around her, like planets circling the sun.
Represent the householf revovled round her - lack of freedom to be her own person
I prefer to see you dressed as an Indian woman.”
subtle assertion of ownership or expectation - as if he leads the empire bruh
“Might be all dressed up like a fancy peacock but he is still a lackee to the white man.”
word “lackee” means they are still a servant, showing that outward success doesn’t change the fact that they are still under the control of the British.
“Naoroji is an alien in race, in custom, in religion.”
speaker dehumanizes him, treating him as if he doesn’t belong or is foreign in every sense - his views will never be vailed for the nature of the british government
“Some bloke got you in trouble then dumped you?”
Firoza - Lord Oakham and Rani = the dismissal of women or colonised individuals overlooked on emotions
“Instead of cooking curries, you will be our teacher.”
Begging of abdul and q-vic relation through promotion - maybe they only got well because Abdul gains in power
“If you give up hope, then we will all fail.”
Dadabhai & Rani - failed dream lesson to rani / guiding light throughout
“How does one say I love you in Hindi?”
Bonding over education - education brings you closer to people
Maybe the BE lackee education of then colinizations and their feelings
HOPE?
“I was educated. Now I am a teacher”
Rani takes Dadabhai’s advice
both use it to become successful in Victorian society despite their unfair treatment
“Education is the only path to freedom.”
tries to educate Victorian society about the negative impact of colonisation in India
