“Because” in literature: did Rose, Agnes, Dora, and Comfort cause celibacy?

Abstract

This paper responds to a piece of dialogue from Flora Nwapa’s novel Women are Different, in which Comfort mockingly says, “They took up the job voluntarily. Now you will soon tell us that they are celibate because of us.” There are two different interpretations of the use of “because,” and the claim is obviously false on only one of these.

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Terence Rajivan Edward
University of Manchester (PhD)

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