The word "trap"(Mahfouz 1) gives a visual imagery of a prison cell, which basically symbolizes darkness. The synonym for darkness is the absence of light. Light is usually a symbol for hope and life; therefore the alley represents hopelessness and death. ... So, when someone exits Midaq Alley, it is the exit of "hopelessness and death" so, it gives the people of the alley a shred of hope. ... Through, the absence of light the dark shadows will rise; "dark"(Mahfouz 279) symbolises absence of hope; this delineate that a negative encounter or factor will occur and ta...

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The theme of colonialism is present before anyone of the so called 'dark races' appears: right from Jane's childhood at Gateshead. ... Susan Meyer continues saying 'the novel compares the rebellious Jane, without much differentiation between them, to an entire array of 'dark races', something that shows the parallels between the British class system and treatment of foreignness. ... It is almost like her alter ego, Bertha, lives inside her as the spirit of change, so when she falls to her death, the spirit of the African slave inside Jane dies. ... To draw on S...

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This was also another way of dealing with wrongdoers in society, instead of implementing severe punishment- one could be sent out to the "dark continent." as most Europeans tended to see Africa. 2 The three reasons mentioned earlier are not the only definite reasons; these reasons are like the others that happen to be interrelated. ... Racist Ideas In the past, the English had equated blackness with death and evil with their interactions of diseases and biblical writings. The first reaction towards people with dark skin was to assume that all dark skinned people inherently are evil or are ...

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There was a point in the book that I thought that the narrator may be Mustafa himself, reflecting upon his life in the moment of death or something, their lives are so parallel. ... He is regarded as something dark and mysterious. ...

• Word Count: 2060
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• Grade Level: High School