Read the excerpt from "Early Victorian Tea Set.” But a loving, tranquil cup of tea has a violent hinterland. When all tea came i
nto Europe from China, the British East India Company traded opium for silver and used that silver to buy tea. The trade was so important that it brought the two countries to war. The first of the conflicts, which we still refer to as the Opium Wars – they were in fact just as much about tea – broke out more or less as our teapot was leaving the Wedgwood factory. Partly because of these difficulties with China, in the 1830s the British set up plantations in the area around Calcutta and Indian tea was exempted from import duty to encourage demand. What is the author’s viewpoint in this excerpt?
Through this excerpt, we can deduce that the author's viewpoint on the topic focuses on the importance of the tea trade and its contribution to what was the Opium Wars - a conflict that sparked between England and China. This is a note of awareness that the lovely cup of tea was not always lovely.
Dawn was actually a goddess in Greek mythology, called Eos (Aurora in Latin). That is why dawn is personified and given human characteristics - because she was considered a goddess in a human-like form and with human-like traits.
