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Patriarchy and they control they hold within Purple Hibiscus :hibiscus:…

- - - - rationalizing his abuse to family as religious ideology - gaslight himself into believing this is okay- blurred lines of his patriarchal control to religion
        
        'when I had thought of heaven as a child, I visualized Papa's room' - she views him like a God, he is all powerful, he controls her life
        
        ' "Why do you think I work so hard to give you and Jaja the best?... all these privileges. Because God has given you so much, he expects much from you. He expects perfection.." ' -comparing himself to God, he works hard + God works hard
        
        ' "my whole body is on fire" '
        
        "My precious daughter. Nothing will happen to you. My precious daughter." after he burned her?
        
        He poured the hot water on my feet, slowly, as if he were conducting an experiment and wanted to see what would happen. He was crying now, tears streaming down his face… I watched the water leave the kettle, flowing almost in slow motion in an arc to my feet. The pain of contact was so pure, so scalding, I felt nothing for a second. And then I screamed.
      - 'feeling the love burning on my tongue' - Kambili uses a juxtaposition of something supposed to a warming comfort to something so hot it hurts her- as though Eugene's love is too much for her- is it real love?
      - 'he reached out and held my hand, and it felt as though my mouth were full of melting sugar' - another tongue reference, religious idea- all she does is search for approval, reminds her she is younger, and he is giving her comfort- melting = painful
        
        tongues can corrupt the whole body + dictate lives
        
        He was nodding slowly, admiringly, and I felt myself go warm all over, with pride, with a desire to be associated with Papa.
        
        Papa’s sister, Aunty Ifeoma, said once that Papa was too much of a colonial product.
        
        i am spotless now. we are all spotless
    - - quotes for Kambili suffering (to find)
    - - 'I realised then that Jaja had been tapping his feet to the beat of an Igbo song that Aunty Ifeoma and my cousins sang at evening rosary' - shows Jaja breaking away from this, being free from his fathers regime
      - 'My lips and cheeks were frozen'
        to
        'an embarrassed and amused smile.. I smiled. I smiled again'
        
        'I laughed. It sounded strange, as if I were listening to the recorded laugh of a stranger being played back. I was not sure I had ever heard myself laugh' - Kambili was so conditioned to not be herself, that she either doesn't remember when she last laughed or hasn't ever
        
        'I had smiled, run, laughed. my chest was filled with something like bath foam. The lightness was so sweet I tasted it on my tongue...' - see the 'tongue metaphor back but not hurting her, in a childlike wonder way, a nice way
        
        'I am laughing. I reach out and place my arm around Mama's shoulder and she learns toward me and smiles.'
        
        ' "Get up! Get away from that painting!"
        I lay there, did nothing.'
      - 'Jaja did not wait for the questions; he told them he had used rat poison, that he put it in Papa's tea'
  - - - many tribes and languages
        
        colony of British Empire - christianity industry, english lang.
        
        gained independence in 1960 - democratic
        
        a lot of militia coups - PH takes place in one of these periods
        
        repressive country, do not allow opposition voices
        
        eugene runs his family similarly
        
        huge corruption problems - siphon off of oil wealth
        
        religion is extremely important (christianity)
        
        believe in a literal truth of the Bible - evangelical
        
        split loyalty - west + central = tribe, church, then country
    - - igbo culture places great significance on masks
        
        they believe that wearing the mask of a deity means the wearer becomes the deity, not representing them but physically is them
    - - one of the main cultures within nigeria with many varieties of the igbo existing
        
        based on pre-christian traditions that would have been pagan/ tribal ideas
        
        christian tradition originally called 'Odinani'
        
        supreme god is 'Chineke'
        
        staple crop grown in the yam
        
        colonialism from western culture, meant traditional 'loin clothes' and 'wrappers' became less used, and more for traditional events
- - - - early settlement of USA
        
        on the edge of America, fear + distrust
        
        isolated European population, cut-off, self-reliant
        
        living to survive, not thrive
        
        religion is cohesive glue of society
        
        intolerence to difference
        
        miller is referencing the American Birth - Americans believe in the good of this - miller shows not
        
        tituba is ex-slave, women = indentured
    - - paranoid about the communist infiltration in the USA
        
        unamerican activities investigated links to communist Russia
        
        led by Senator McCarthy interrogated American citizens about their links
        
        if you appeared at the committee = blacklisted and slandered for being unamerican
        
        snowballed from something small + insignificant to a large witchhunt essentially
        
        guilt presumption- things went better if one confessed and gave up names of other communists
    - - lit at the time dealt with idea of conformity and the social cohesion through this
        
        ideas of the American dream were created as what everyone is aspiring to
        
        deviation from this is highly distrusted in the 50s society
        
        links to MCarthyism (fear of communism) leaving one open to accusation
    - - puritanism within protestant movement
        
        catholicism, pre- Henry VIII, allowed ppl to question the norms of current religion
        
        lots in catholicism that is not within the Bible
        
        puritans = anything not in Bible = :red_cross: part of religion
        
        argue that priests do not have the ability that Jesus has to turn water to wine- that is a scared link to God only
        
        puritan is extremely protestant + politics as well
        
        want religion free from rigid European religion
  - - - they convict with no remorse, forcing people to admit to devil coercion + throw others under the bus to save their lives
        
        McCarthyism ideology on clear display here
        
        'why do you never wonder if Parris be innocent, or Abigail? Is the accuser always holy now?' - idea of flaws within the belief system
        
        'And why not, if they must hang for denyin’ it? There are them that will swear to anything before they’ll hang; have you never thought of that?'
    - - not only does Abi not hold back but she also leads many of the other girls to follow her lead -most notably during the court case of Proctor when she convinces the room that she and the others are manipulated by the Devil through Mary Warren
        
        she leads many with her, all young girls, while the women in the society are convicted by them (Tituba as well)
        
        'I want to open myself!.. I want the light of God. I want the sweet love of Jesus. I danced for the Devil; I saw him; I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Betty Bishop with the Devil!'
        
        From this, Betty, who was supposed to be comatosed, sat up and said 'I saw George Jacobs with the Devil!'
      - Proctor consistently refers to her as a girl despite his courtship with her, then denies having the idea of sleeping together in his mind - as he tries to salvage his reputation, he eventually admits to the affair and sullies his name
        
        this fuels Abigail Williams throughout the play to fight the patriarchy as she did from the start. She is a powerful + threatening girl from the start
- - - - red hibiscus at home- the control held at home, with no freedom or self-expression. mentioned infiltrated by purple- hint at before ??
        
        purple hibiscus- at aunty ifeoma, where the children can be themselves and it's okay, the purple is freedom. clearly significant to their journeys and is clearly mentioned as a new idea
      - "I didn't know there were purple hibiscus"
        
        said by Jaja, who did not know there was another way to live beyond Papa's regime, shows how he broke from the mould Papa made first, then Kambili did
      - subtle throughout book
    - - the family = the figurines, the perfect family from the outside view, broken now due to conflict
      - opening to book, significant
      - implies the power Papa holds, is physically restraining
        
        interestingly is broken in rage towards Jaja, who broke from the family mould before anyone else did
      - link to crucible - break/ smashed conventions
      - volta of book, opens with this, then we learn why this has happened, and jumps back to it, main part of this story
  - - - how children become the "prosecutors" in this situation - abigail
      - rep. of innocence lost due to corruption/ forced to save themselves - convict or be convicted
        
        made by a child - lost childlike wonder
      - childlike figure that now causes women convicted of witchcraft to be trial- confession = repent for sins no confession = death
      - 'she has not been a child these last 15 years, Your Honour'
        'But a poppet will keep 15 years will it not?' - very leading speech, not really an argument against it
    - - many died due to others saving their own skins + religious beliefs - used as a rationalisation/ excuse
        
        gavel = the representation of repression due to religion
      - symbol of unjust deaths within this novel - many people died due to irrational thoughts + hysteria
- - - - talk about hibiscus in this
        and the gavel symbolism