LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE VICTORIAN NOVEL
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The phrase suggested that women were largely responsible for causing problems in the empire, particularly between racialized groups.
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The phrase meant that British people should trade with their non-white neighbors, treating them largely as equals in the mercantile economy.
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It implied that the empire was like a child and should be cared for by the larger community of nations surrounding it.
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The implication was that the Empire existed not for the benefit of Britain itself, but in order that so-called “primitive” peoples could be “civilized” (and Christianized) by serving Britain.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Imperialism, as Kipling viewed it, was a national policy of expanding a country’s power to less developed places around the world through economic, political and military means in order to gain natural resources and labor in exchange for order and civility.
Detailed explanation-2: -Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist, best known as the author of The Jungle Book. He was also the embodiment of British Imperialism at a time when the British Empire was at or near its peak.
Detailed explanation-3: -Although Kipling’s poem mixed exhortation to empire with sober warnings of the costs involved, imperialists within the United States latched onto the phrase “white man’s burden” as a euphemism for imperialism that seemed to justify the policy as a noble enterprise.