Alienation+or+Isolation

ISOLATION || **//Heat and Dust//** || **//Wide Sargasso Sea//** || **//Heart of Darkness//** || **//Things Fall Apart//** ||
 * ALIENATION/
 * Synopsis || After moving from England to India, Olivia feels isolated, especially since Douglas is always busy working. She does not feel comfortable with the locals or with the other English wives. || Scene 1. Despite having grown up in Jamaica, Antoinette feels a sense of isolation from environment. She has no real sense of belonging as she and her family face discrimination (racial, financial) from the locals. Additionally, she is also isolated emotionally from her only kin (Annette).

Scene 2. Part 3 - towards the end of the novel, Antoinette is trapped in the 'Great House' in England. She is physically isolated from everyone else except for Grace Poole and her imprisonment compounded with her madness causes her to lose control. || Kurtz is at the Inner station and is detached from other characteres physically and emotionally. He is a mysterious figure to the Europeans and to the locals, and nobody seems to know much about his thoughts or beliefs. Kurtz is drawn by Congo and prolongs his stay even when the last shipment of ivory has left the Inner station. He is a solitary figure who slowly cuts himself off from the "civilized society" and mixes with the African locals. He falls under the "spell" of Africa and ultimately his physical and moral condition deterioriate. ||  ||
 * Real time || 1920s || 1. After Emancipation Act of Jamaica has been passed

2. Going to England || Late 19th century ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Narrative placement || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">During/after one of the gatherings with the other British wives || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Part 1, Antoinette’s narration (in Jamaica)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Part 3, Antoinette's narration (in England) || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Part 3 ||  || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tita <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Annette || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Marlow <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Kurtz ||  || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">(cited text) ||  || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> 1. "They didn't look at us, nobody see them come near us." (14) - Tita tells Antoinette <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">" 'Oh, let me alone,' she would say, 'let me alone,'.." (11) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">- Annette to Antoinette
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Characters involved || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Olivia || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Antoinette
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Significant lines of dialogue

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">2. " 'I give you all I have freely,' I would say, 'and I will not trouble you again if you will let me go.' (106) ||  ||   || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">(cited text) || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">“The rest of the time Olivia was alone in her big house with all the doors and windows shut to keep out the heat and the dust.” (12)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Significant descriptions

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">"Olivia did feel left out - just as much as she had done in the Palace." (26) || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> 1. "I got used to a solitary life..." (10)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">2. "Now they have taken everything away. What am I doing in this place and who am I?" (107) || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> "He hate all of this and somehow he couldn't get away." (56) ||  || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Discrimination <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Identity || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Deterioration ||  || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Nature imagery (emphasis on nature: a solace for her loneliness) || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Parallel (with Marlow) ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Symbols ||  ||   || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Physical journey ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Motifs || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Belonging || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Belonging
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Narrative /style aspects || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Revealed through Olivia’s letters which have been arranged and chosen by Anne || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">First person narration - from Antoinette’s perspective, insight into her own thoughts and feelings towards environment || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Marlow’s storytelling reveals a lot about Kurtz's characteristics ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Literary features || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Contrast (Olivia and other British wives like Mrs. Minies and Mrs. Crawford) || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Contrast