When a people are enslaved as long as they hold fast to their language it is as if they had the key to their prison. Explain in 2-3 sentences with the reference of the chapter 'The Last Lesson'.
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is absolutely true when people are enslaved, as long as they hold fast to their language, it is if they have key to their prison. Love and loyalty to one’s motherland and mother-tongue are the cornerstone of one’s identity and self-esteem. Anyone who can’t love his country and national language can’t love anything and anyone in this world. Our country and language give us the most in our life; if we can’t love them, we are highly ungrateful beings in that case.
Many countries in the world gained freedom from imperialistic countries by holding fast to their mother-tongue. Our country, India also faced imposition of other languages by the oppressors, but our freedom fighters held fast to their vernaculars and national language and finally achieved freedom.
In the chapter Last Lesson by Alphonso Daudet we find linguistic chauvinism displayed by both the German and the French. Germans imposed their language on the French; whereas the French were worried and sad about losing their mother-tongue. They made all the plans to protect their mother-tongue.
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A person’s mother tongue or native language is what connects them to their culture and country. It gives them a sense of pride and belonging. This is why conquerors try to subdue the people of a conquered territory by taking away the native language and imposing their own language.
Throughout history, conquering nations have done the same. The Romans conquered many parts of Europe and replaced the languages in those regions with Latin. Similarly Muslim invaders imposed Arabic and Persian in the countries that they conquered in Asia. In many Arab countries, the local languages of the past do not exist anymore. In India, the language of Urdu developed as a mixture of Persian and Hindi.