British Literature TD Rudyard Kipling PDF

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TD de littérature britannique en deuxième année de licence LLCE (étude d'un extrait de texte)...

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BRITISH LITERATURE TD Text number 2 : RUDYARD KIPLING – Beyond the Pale (1888) Questions : 1) Summary of the story : A English man who fell in love with an Indian woman, she lives in a shanty town, a slum. He heard her singing and that's why he fell in love. He starts singing and she continues, they fell in love. Bisesa give some objects to Trejago in order to explain that she's a widow (it is an indian tradition). Usually, married woman have bangles and when they lost their husband, they broke them so she send to him a peace of that. After that, he come to see her and they sing until the end of the night. Trejago start to see an white woman and B finds out, is really angry. She broke up with him. He waited three weeks and come back because he miss her. At the end, she has been mutilated, her hands cut off. 2) The title mean going out of the limits. ''The Pale'' is a fence that separate. The opposition between Pale/Dark refer to the skin color. They are not aloow to search/to have this relation because they doesn't have the same nationality. That wasn't accepted by society at that time. 3) The references to boundaries, limits or imprisonment : ''safe limits'', ''dead-wall'', ''greated window'', ''a trap''. They are related with the title because they refer to things that separate people and put them a part ; their relation is limited because of the society. They actually went beyond the Pale, they transgress the rules of the society. 4) This extract is based on duality because the two caracter are opposed by many things. England/India ; Innocent/experienced ; Free/Captive ; Rich/poor ; pale/dark ; health/illness. 5) The characters communicate by singing, letters, and laugh. There's no talking and it had as effect that they didn't need to speak to understand each other. All this ways of communication she makes her self even more mysterious and attractive. 6) The reference to the Arabian Nights with the poem is a warning, like B said ''Come back to me, Beloved, or I die !'' and at the end she dies socially with her hands cut off. 7) There is prolepsis : the author let us guess vagly that something go wrong (line 5 to 8). So there is not really suspens because we know something go wrong. It's to make the reader go on. 8) The narrator disaprooved what they did. We can see it with the warnings that he gives and the fact that at the end, the story is a kind of moral. He punishes them at the end....