The Wrath of Imperialism
“To think that imperialism is not a beast is to think that we are not animals.”-Karl Liebknecht. In the book Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya, an Indian woman named Rukmani tells the story of her life during a period of imperialism. Throughout the story, she suffers immense misfortune including loss of her land, a son, and traditional values. Many sufferings are caused by imperialism, as the British imperialize her village by building a tannery nearby her home. The book describes Rukmani’s negative feelings about imperialism and the character development of Rukmani throughout all this. The idea of imperialism is also seen in history around the 19th to 20th century. Europe, a highly modernized country, had …show more content…
This exhibits dominance because of the imperialists’ motivations to help only themselves, the imbalance in power dynamics, and the loss of the imperialized people’s land and traditional values.
Imperialists are motivated to imperialize countries weaker than their own in order to continue building a stronger empire for themselves, leading them often to exploit imperialized countries and negatively affecting the imperialized countries’ progress. In Nectar in a Sieve, the main character, Rukmani, and her family live on a farm in their rural village in India. However, the British soon open up a tannery nearby her home, which disrupts her lifestyle. The tannery, a factory where workers prepare animal skins, changes the village environment to one of a bustling city. Rukmani says in annoyance that, “Now it is all noise and crowds everywhere, and rude young hooligans idling in the streets and dirty bazaars and uncouth behavior, and no man thinks of another but schemes only for his money”(46). The tannery is spoken of in a negative light, which is seen with
“To think that imperialism is not a beast is to think that we are not animals.”-Karl Liebknecht. In the book Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya, an Indian woman named Rukmani tells the story of her life during a period of imperialism. Throughout the story, she suffers immense misfortune including loss of her land, a son, and traditional values. Many sufferings are caused by imperialism, as the British imperialize her village by building a tannery nearby her home. The book describes Rukmani’s negative feelings about imperialism and the character development of Rukmani throughout all this. The idea of imperialism is also seen in history around the 19th to 20th century. Europe, a highly modernized country, had …show more content…
This exhibits dominance because of the imperialists’ motivations to help only themselves, the imbalance in power dynamics, and the loss of the imperialized people’s land and traditional values.
Imperialists are motivated to imperialize countries weaker than their own in order to continue building a stronger empire for themselves, leading them often to exploit imperialized countries and negatively affecting the imperialized countries’ progress. In Nectar in a Sieve, the main character, Rukmani, and her family live on a farm in their rural village in India. However, the British soon open up a tannery nearby her home, which disrupts her lifestyle. The tannery, a factory where workers prepare animal skins, changes the village environment to one of a bustling city. Rukmani says in annoyance that, “Now it is all noise and crowds everywhere, and rude young hooligans idling in the streets and dirty bazaars and uncouth behavior, and no man thinks of another but schemes only for his money”(46). The tannery is spoken of in a negative light, which is seen with