Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain as a journey from self-hatred to self-acceptance

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Derek Walcott's Dream of Monkey Mountain (1970) can arguably be regarded as a post-colonial play as it discusses the impact being projected and will be left on the colonized nations by the colonizers of the West Indies.

The play is set in the Victorian era when European colonization was at its peak.

It details the plight of Flex Hobian (named Makak in the play), an old black ugly man who goes through a journey from self-hatred to self-acceptance.

Self-hatred refers to feeling the individuals experience during which they are angry at or even prejudiced against themselves.

The paper argues that the colonizers and their accomplices are responsible for seeding self-hatred among the colonized population.