Submitted by Boss452 t3_122yy3r in television
Archamasse t1_jdsyol3 wrote
I think a lot of folks have missed the significance of the fact Crozier is Irish. He is not British, and England is not his home. He is a colonial subject, from a country that was ruthlessly colonised and exploited to prop up the navy he's part of. The exploitation of Ireland's ecosystem for the sake of the British Empire is, at that point in history, on the brink of triggering an apocalyptic famine that will kill about an eighth of the Irish population while food is still being exported, and the Royal Navy was a major priority for those exports.
He doesn't just speak his coloniser's language, he would have to learn to speak it in his coloniser's accent for a chance to succeed within its machine.
He isn't just in hiding from the Naval Officers, he's renouncing his part in what they represent.
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Btw I can't tell if you're aware, but there were reports of a single white man living with some of the Inuit some time afterwards, from both European and Inuit accounts, and that man was speculated to be Francis Crozier, who would have been among the best equipped of the crew to adapt.
gauephat t1_jdtup2q wrote
Crozier was born into a Protestant Ulster family, the son of a solicitor who had many connections among the local Anglo-Irish nobility that dominated colonial government.
I think it's more than misleading to paint him as a benighted colonial subject. It would be like saying Arthur Wellesley was oppressed
idunno-- t1_jdthe5c wrote
He achieved his freedom at the end, which was the best outcome for him. He seemed to be genuinely at peace. I thought it was a lovely ending.
temujin64 t1_jduq7o0 wrote
Crozier's family where planters in Ulster. They were colonisers.
He's no more an oppressed Irishman than any white American is an oppressed native American.
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