Tonga Flashcards
How is Tonga used to explore the racist attitudes of the Victorian times?
brutally shot and killed without being given chance to talk like Small was.
‘It straightened itself into a little black man- the smallest I have ever seen’
‘small’ to suggest inferiority
pronoun ‘it’ suggests less than human
hyphen amongst long complex sentences slows down time to emphasise such vulgar, disgusted feelings toward Tonga
or Doyle uses it to highlight narrow-mindedness of Victorian era
‘We made a living by exhibiting poor Tonga at fairs as a black cannibal’ —–> animalistic and less than human
How is Tonga shown to be not quite so fearful?
He is described as being like a pet to Jonathan Small-
‘When I saw that he was devoted to me and would do anything to serve me, I saw my chance of escape’
Small seems more dangerous and evil than Tonga- exploiting weak and only thinking of self
He seems quite and innocent: ‘No man ever had a more faithful mate’
