Abstract
This is an extract from Dishonored written by Maria Barrett in 1996. Thanks to the title "Reception", we can know at the first sight that this text relates an invitation and a kind of meeting. This story deals with relationships and reactions between the different characters and reveals the situation of India during the 19th century. In the first part, I will talk about the established hierarchy; indeed, we can underline some elements that show the orderliness context. Then I will tackle the provocative criticism and the flaws of the hierarchy.
So, first of all, I will explain how the various behaviors of The Colonel Mills, Mrs Mills and Indrajit Rai manifest the established hierarchy that was organized in India and in the United Kingdom during the 19th century. There are two different kinds of domination showed by their behaviors, first the submission of the Indians to the British because of the colonization and then the submission of the women to the men during the Victorian era.
