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Peachey Carnehan and Daniel Dravot, using military force and their knowledge of Masonry, have managed to become kings of Kafiristan. However, Dravot’s ambition and hubris continue to drive him. He no longer wants to be just a king—he wants to be an emperor. His pacing and tearing out his beard suggest that his ambition has become an obsession and may be driving him mad.
This passage also emphasizes once more the technological differences between the colonizer and the colonized. The “civilized” colonizer Dravot plans to build factories in the unindustrialized villages of Kafiristan, and he states that the Kafirs need…