Black Mischief (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Evelyn Waugh
- First Published: 1932
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: The early 1930’s
- Setting: The mythical empire of Azania, an island off Africa
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: Africa or Africans, Mythology or myths, Politics, Race, 1930’s, Islands, Rulers, Ethics, Corruption, Government, Modernization, Humorists
- Locales: Africa, Islands
Characters Discussed
Seth, the newly crowned emperor of Azania. He is the twenty-four-year-old grandson of Amurath, the first emperor of this polyglot East African country. He has a naïve faith in the future and in progress, and he is determined to modernize the country at all costs. His progressive impulses are constantly at war with his tribal background and superstitious nature. He acquired enough information while at Oxford to prove Alexander Pope’s famous maxim that a little learning is a dangerous thing; his efforts are largely ineffectual. He gives boots to his...
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