Parrot in Pantomime

            Pantomime by Derek Walcott

            In general parrots almost repeats, imitates just like mimic man.

In the play Parrot always repeats “Heinegger”. He is the name of the German owner of the hotel and parrot repeats what was taught to him by it’s German owner.

 Jackson doesn’t like Parrot, he wants to get rid of it, because parrot symbolizes the colonial period. Before the post-colonial term, hotel was run by a German owner and parrot was left from that term and that’s why Jackson doesn’t like the Parrot.

 Killing Parrot means it’s the end of the colonial term for Jackson and beginning of post-colonial term.

 At the end of the play we can see a new kind of relationship between black and white, but not  as a black and white, it’s based on employee and employer.

Now they can get rid of the binary oppositions. Jackson can get rid of inferiority complex. At the end of the play. That’s why he can ask the raise.

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