, ENG2603 Assignment 1 (COMPLETE ANSWERS) semester
1 2025 - DUE May 2025; 100% correct solutions and
explanations.
Question 1
{Two Essays Provided}
Entrapment and Escape in Nervous Conditions
By Tsitsi Dangarembga
Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions is a powerful
exploration of gender, colonialism, and identity in 1960s
Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). In the opening paragraph,
Tambudzai, the narrator, states that the story is about her
“escape” and also speaks of “entrapment.” These two opposing
ideas frame the lived experiences of the novel’s women, whose
lives are shaped by both the oppressive structures of patriarchy
and the emerging desire for independence and self-definition.
The characters of Tambu, Maiguru, Lucia, and Nyasha each
exemplify different aspects of this tension between entrapment
and escape.
Tambu begins the novel in a position of gendered and economic
disadvantage. As a girl, her education is not prioritized in the
same way as her brother Nhamo’s, and she must grow maize to
fund her own schooling. This struggle highlights her initial
entrapment in a patriarchal society that limits girls'
opportunities. However, Tambu sees education as her path to
freedom, and when Nhamo dies and she is offered the chance to
study at the mission, she embraces it as a form of escape. Yet
1 2025 - DUE May 2025; 100% correct solutions and
explanations.
Question 1
{Two Essays Provided}
Entrapment and Escape in Nervous Conditions
By Tsitsi Dangarembga
Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions is a powerful
exploration of gender, colonialism, and identity in 1960s
Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). In the opening paragraph,
Tambudzai, the narrator, states that the story is about her
“escape” and also speaks of “entrapment.” These two opposing
ideas frame the lived experiences of the novel’s women, whose
lives are shaped by both the oppressive structures of patriarchy
and the emerging desire for independence and self-definition.
The characters of Tambu, Maiguru, Lucia, and Nyasha each
exemplify different aspects of this tension between entrapment
and escape.
Tambu begins the novel in a position of gendered and economic
disadvantage. As a girl, her education is not prioritized in the
same way as her brother Nhamo’s, and she must grow maize to
fund her own schooling. This struggle highlights her initial
entrapment in a patriarchal society that limits girls'
opportunities. However, Tambu sees education as her path to
freedom, and when Nhamo dies and she is offered the chance to
study at the mission, she embraces it as a form of escape. Yet
