Brick Lane Para 2

Question 1

Main Idea 2

Answer 1

Nazneen’s secondary hedonistic pursuit of an affair out of her social duties allow her to be liberated from mundane life.

Question 2

Elaboration 2

Answer 2

Theological determinism “the doctrine that God determines everything that occurs.” (James Hart, 2019), is characterised in Nazneen resulting her being easily subject to the patriarchal dogmas of her culture.

Question 3

Idea 1- Explanation

Answer 3

-Oxymoronic imagery of being “comically solemn” represents Nazneen to be an impressionable child to the ideology of determinism

Question 4

Idea 1- Quote

Answer 4

-seen in her mother’s dialogue “to accept the Grace of God” and “to treat life with the same indifference with which it would treat her”.

Question 5

Idea 2 General

Answer 5

This deterministic mindset results in her experiencing suicidal thoughts evident in her internal monologue, “A big jump… a big smile on her face because she had defied everything and everyone,” alluding to a desire to abandon social duty.

Question 6

Idea 3 Topic

Answer 6

With the arrival of Karim Nazneen is sexually awakened as she experiences a new, erotic sensation for the first time.

Question 7

Idea 3 Quote

Answer 7

Exhibited by tactile, erotic imagery, she is indicated to feel “an electric current run from her nipples to her big toes.” Additionally, their fornication is stated to have “made her sick with desire,” and that she “took her pleasure desperately.”

Question 8

Idea 3 Explanation

Answer 8

The use of the synonymous lexicon “desire” and “desperately” are able to construct her escapism from the complicity of society via breaking fundamental moral values. Thus the materialisation of her hedonistic desires are able to act as a form of liberation.

Question 9

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