Foucault's Theories Of Torture

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you loved. Have a love sip, he would say, and Taja would go first. Then I would hold the cup with both hands and raise it to my lips. One, sip, The tea was always too hot, always hurned my tongue and if lunch was something peppery... But it didn’t matter, because I knew that when the tea burned my tongue, it burned papa’s love into me…” (PH - 8) These lines describes their sufferingness. Adichie showed Kambili’s family is completely dominated by papa Eugene. He ruled his family,torture always leads to mark. This mark brings Tragic death of papa in this novel. Focault also speaks about torture and its mark.
“Foucault delves deeper into the characteristics of torture in order demonstrate the monumental shift that occurred between …show more content…
(34) These principle theory is focused on papa Eugene’s brutal punishments over Kambili. The pain is experienced by Kambili. At first she feels no pain at all when papa Eugene slowly pours a boiling water over her feet and then regulating the pain level which cannot be tolerate. This painful act leads it scars. His arrogant shows that, the native God has become powerless, the Christian God grows powerful. Adichie not only focus on his evil but also his goodness. For example, “Papa gave them each ten naira from a wad of notes he pulled out of his hold –all. “Great your parents make sure you show them this money” (PH-55) Another terrific incident is displayed over to Jaja at the age of ten. He punishes him for missing two questions on his catechism test. Because of missing questions, he was not named the best in his first Holy communion class. The pathetic situation is, no one in the family never speaks of his abuse that goes on in the house. Kambili is very shocked because when she comes to know about papa’s cruelty over Jaja’s lost part of his little finger while telling to her aunt Ifeoma. The words …show more content…
This is ironical tone that is, he is the antagonist of novel. This religious Extremism is the antagonist of Igbo. This religious Extremism derived from the impact of colonialism which changed everything that is, family relationships is broken out, culture is ignored, mechanism leadership life, brutal quality take shaped, socialism is decreased, religious tolerance arose and deity’s worship is low, corruption well crowned and so on. Conclude that, the power is necessary to protect inner and outer world to stand up at his own, “Power reaches their bodies and inserts itself into their actions and attitudes, their discourses, learning process and every
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