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Space Between Ideas And Reality Essay

In Jamaica Kincaid's "On Seeing England for the First Time" the invisible hand, the authority is education. In this case, education is the mode which the British government uses in order to guarantee control over its colony. By presenting the grand, illustrious idea of Britain, the British government is making sure that Antiguans are in awe and are not thinking about rebelling. The author expands on her experience with Britain while growing up in Antigua. Though she had never been to England at that point she remembers how they were forced to draw maps of England in school and how she was "familiar with the greatness of it." (Kincaid, 720) This points out how through education, children in Antigua were provided with the idea of great England, which later on made them feel incompetent because they were not from it....

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This idea of England was forced to its colonies by England in order to make the colonists, as the author puts it in "awe at its existence and small because I was not from it." (Kincaid, 721) it is Kincaid who provides the reader with the theory of the "space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they are kept apart- idea of thing, reality of thing- the wider the width, the deeper the depth, the thicker and darker the darkness." (Kincaid, 724) the idea, in Kincaid's case is the greatness of Britain, whereas the reality is not anything like what she has been presented pictures, paintings, school or a storybook. When she went to England herself, she experienced their rudeness, discovered that the cliffs of Dover were not white but were "dirty and they were steep." (Kincaid,

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