The Characters
OLIVIA: impulsive, passionate, sensitive, emotional, bored, dependent on others, an outsider, naive, influenced by appearances, guided by her instincts
KEY PASSAGES:
- p.29, l.14-p.30, l.5 expresses her fear of death to Douglas
- p.61, ll.1-4 her views on sutee and says she wants to die with her husband
- p.69, ll.9-13 Olivia´s views of the nawab
- p.147, ll.12-17 the narrator´s views of Olivia
THE NAWAB: manly, imperious, a born ruler, generous, tender, sensitive, two-faced, inscrutable, dominated by his mother
- p.21, l.10-p.22, l.3 duplicitous behaviour
- p.48, l.28-p.49, l.12, p.138, ll.2-16 a prince with no power
- p.133, l.21-p.134, l.29 The Nawab considers all Europeans by the same
- p.35, ll.6-12, p.88, ll.11-21 The nawabs involvement in crime
DOUGLAS: noble, fair, firm and manly voice, conscientious, a man of principle, conventional
- p.40, l.6-p.41, l.7 Douglas´s treatment and views of Indians
- p.57, ll.14-16, ll.26-31, p.74, l.28-p.75,l.15 Doulas´s feelings towards the Nawab
