Question

What the setting of the story 'The Last Lesson'?

Answer 1

Answer:

“The last lesson” stresses on the importance of education and the necessity to respect and learn one's own language. This story draws our attention to the unfair practice of linguistic chauvinism. It refers to an unreasonable pride in one's own language while disregarding all the other languages as inferior.

Themes which are prevalent in "The Last Lesson" by Alphonse Daudet are love for own's mother tongue, freedom of language and patriotism. The Prussians denied the freedom to the people Lorraine and Alsace to learn their own language. The colonizers take way the right of the people.