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Victorian Literature, Culture, and Power, I do not like Horace Holly for…

- - - - The Picture of Dorian Gray

I do not like Horace Holly for many reasons.

He is racist. He calls them “too dark” and that their faces are evil, and describes them like an animal in the zoo because he feels like he is better than them naturally

Is the textbook definition of “The white man’s Burden”

He is RUDE! He has the audacity to come on someone else’s land and judge the Amahagger culture AFTER they saved them from drowning.

- - - - "He had superiors, inferiors, equals- Gurth is now “emancipated” long since; has what we call “Liberty”. Liberty, I am told, is a Divine thing Liberty when it becomes the “liberty to die by starvation” is not so divine! Liberty? The true liberty of a man, you would say, consisted in his finding out, or being forced to find out, the right path and to walk there on. To learn, or be taught, what work he actually was able for; and then by permission persuasion and even compulsion to set about doing the same! that is his true blessedness honor “liberty” and maximum of being. "
- - - - "On the one hand, [society] cannot be expected to tolerate the invert who flouts his perversion in its face and assumes that, because he would rather take his pleasure with a sailor or policeman than with their sisters, he is of finer clay than the vulgar herd. On the other, it might well refrain from crushing with undiscerning ignorance beneath a burden of shame the subject of an abnormality which, as we have seen, has not been incapable of fine uses. Inversion is an aberration from the usual course of nature. But the clash of contending elements which must often mark the history of such a deviation results now and again — by no means infrequently — in nobler activities than those yielded by the vast majority who are born to consume the fruits of the earth. It bears, for the most part, its penalty in the structure of its own organism. We are bound to protect the helpless members of society against the invert. If we go further and seek to destroy the invert himself, before he has sinned against society, we extend the warrant of reason, and in so doing we may, perhaps, destroy also those children of the spirit which possess sometimes a greater worth than children of the flesh.”