Honolulu W Somerset Maugham 1921 Plot Analysis and Themes
Explore the intriguing short story "Honolulu" by W. Somerset Maugham, delving into the plot, main characters, questions raised, main messages, notable quotes, and vocabulary used. Uncover the story of Captain Butler and his wife in Honolulu, as they navigate love, rivalry, and the intricacies of human nature against the backdrop of magic and voodoo. Analyze the themes of race, gender dynamics, and cultural perceptions woven into the narrative, bringing to light thought-provoking insights on societal norms and individual motivations.
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HONOLULU W. Somerset Maugham October 1921
The Plan Short description of the plot Main Characters Questions Main Message Of The Story Quotes Vocabulary
Plot of Plot of Honolulu Honolulu "Honolulu" is a famous short story by Somerset Maugham that was part of his larger collection The Trembling Leaf. Published in Magazine in Main plot is spinning around two characters Captain Butler and his wife. Captain Butler has married a native girl in Honolulu and they seem hopelessly in love. But the Captain has a rival - who's not afraid to use destroy marital bliss. Everybody's October 1921. voodoo to
MAIN CHARACTERS Captain Butler Native Girl Bananas Winter
Questions What did the author describe in the first part of the story? Who is the main antagonist in the story? What role does magic play in the story? What can you say about the ending of the story?
Main Message Of The Story Magic or Voodoo is real. And works even if you don t believe in it. Story raises some racist points about how black people are primitive and passions, and would sell their daughters, kill their rivals and rape any woman they fancy. How women, at least native women, are willing slaves for the right (white) deceitful, ruthless and inferior to men in apprehension at the same time. And finally, for some reason, that asian people are cunning, hardworking seducing women. ruled by their man, and and great at
Quotes Heaven helps those who help themselves The wise traveller travels only in imagination. <...> Those are the best journeys, the journeys that you take at your own fireside, for then you lose none of your illusions. All these strange people live close to each other, with different languages and different thoughts; they believe in different gods and they have different values; two passions alone they share, love and hunger. He felt no need for the conversation of intellectual persons. He liked a good laugh, but he could get that out of a fool just as well as out of a professor of philosophy. He had a notion that he was a very wise little man.
Vocabulary Insouciance - casual lack of concern; indifference. ( ) Facetious - treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant. ( ) Corpulence - the state of being fat; obesity. ( ) Frivolous - not having any serious purpose or value. ( ) Calabash - an evergreen tropical American tree which bears fruit in the form of large woody gourds. ( ) Dough - a thick, malleable mixture of flour and liquid, used for baking into bread or pastry. ( ) haff - tease. ( ) Guile - sly or cunning intelligence. ( ) Lulled - calm or send to sleep, typically with soothing sounds or movements. ( ) Callously ( )
