Satipur or the mountains- which location is better?
Verfasst von kristinhd am Mai 20, 2008
Is there really a change in the life of Olivia? Is she happier now that she has eloped with the Nawab, who bought her a house in the town of X in the mountains? Or did the situation remain the old one?
Well, I think that actually she has reached no real change.
Olivia didn’t like Satipur very much. She had not a real friend between the English women. Certainly, she knew all of them and spent much time with Beth Crawford, but actually she was alone all the time. While she visited the Begum with Beth Crawford she was the one to be silent all the time, not knowing the language. And because of their late arrival all the English women already had chosen a kind of best friend for them, so that she was not so much integrated as the others. She spent many hours alone in the house, playing the piano and reading, or simply expecting the heat to go. Douglas, her husband, was at work all day long, and often in the evening returned so late that they had not much time for conversation.
A new „time“ started during the initial period, when she began to visit the Nawab. She often stayed with Harry and found someone to talk with in him. And the Nawab was the first one to really donate her attention. They made trips together, visited the shrine and he showed her the whole Palace, which for most of the inhabitants remained unseen for their whole life.
As they fall in love a big problem becomes the centre of her life and attention: the choice between the Nawab, who was already married and her husband Douglas. Then she even got pregnant and both of them thought to be the father of the child.
After having aborted it she’s not capable to look into Douglas eyes, so she immediately goes to the Palace and leaves Kathm without having seen Douglas anymore.
And then the same situation from the beginning returns. She lives alone in the house the Nawab has bought for her and he only sometimes comes to visit her. The letters to Marcia begin to get shorter and finally disappear completely. She is alone, plays piano and passes her time maybe by reading. So finally, she returned to be in the same way of living as she was before in Satipur with Douglas. She didn’t gain anything.
donath@ulricianum sagte
Super text, super considerations!
dt