‘As soon as the bacon was well under way, and Millie, her lymphatic aid, had been brisked up a bit by a few deftly chosen expressions of contempt, she carried the cloth, plates, and glasses into the parlour and began to lay them with the utmost eclat’. What does the term eclat mean as it is used in the sentence?

The word “Eclat”, in context to the sentence, means “brilliant display or elegant display”.

Explanation:

In the mentioned paragraph, it is described that a respective woman is a person who likes things to be done almost perfectly. Due to this, she tries to speed up her otherwise sluggish aid Millie. However, she takes the plates and other things needed to be setting the table in the parlor by herself and puts them across with “utmost elegant/brilliant display”.

the african society basically suffered the consequences of colonization and apartheid directly attacking the black people, first, during the colonialism and its main idea which which "white people" had better rights, affecting   them principally in the right to establish black people in their territories, access to quality education and health services and took away any civil right even to the black people to feel they have the same opportunities as the settlers.

d. murder of a son and cooking the son for a feast

procne murdered her son and served him to tereus, her husband and her son's father. she did this out of revenge. tereus raped her sister, philomela, and cut her tongue out to keep her from talking. philomela managed to communicate it to procne and procne sought revenge.

tantalus murdered his son and fed him to the gods because he was angry with the gods. the gods punished him by putting him in a pool of water that evaporates when he tries to drink and having fruit hang just out of his reach.