ACT 2 WK BK NO 2 PGS 118 TO 119

ACT 2 WK BK NO 2 PGS 118 TO 119

(i)                  Nicola is talking about the family of the Petkoffs in whose house he is a servant.

Nicola wants to be dependent on the goodwill of the family because he hopes that by faithful service he will be able to save enough money to set up his own shop in Sofia. If through his faithfulness he has the goodwill of the family, they will encourage and bless him in this endeavour. Further, they will be customers at his shop and since they are a rich and respected family in Bulgaria, they will have many influential and rich friends to whom they will recommend the shop and thus Nicola would have good clients and his venture would be successful.

(ii)                Nicola hopes to get the money for the shop from his savings as a servant in the Petkoff home. He will probably hope that the Petkoff family would assist him if necessary.

Nicola intends to be a faithful servant and win the appreciation and good will of the Petkoff family in order to remain in service and so get money from his job and also the probably help from the Petkoff family who would b indebted to him for so faithfully serving them for the years.

(iii)               Louka tells Nicola that he has no spirit meaning that he does not have the human pride to stand up independently. She accuses him of having the spirit of a servant.

Later she tells Nicola that he will never put the spirit of a servant into her. She wishes to emphasise that she has an independent and free spirit.

(iv)              When Nicola repeats the word “young” in reference to Louka he means to emphasise that she is inexperienced and has far-fetched dreams of greatness which through experience she will learn can only remain dreams.

(v)                This extract tells us that Nicola s a practical, down to earth man. He is ambitious but with an ambition which is based on practical good sense. He is also the traditional faithful servant who does ot only give of his service but also does his work with heart.

Louka on the other hand is a modern girl. Her spirit will not let her limit her ambition to what her class in society have been used to. She drams big beyond her class in society. She demands that everyone treat her with the deference which needs to be given to every human being because they are human beings. She resents the attitude of the higher classes when they think they are superior human beings to those of the lower classes.