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Pavlína Tejcová - 5th year Contemporary British Women Novelists Doc. Milada Frankova, CSc., M.A. February 2003 Lucy´s and Howard´s Potential to Change in Cleopatra´s Sister In Cleopatra's Sister, both Lucy, a journalist, and Howard, a paleontologist, represent the culture of the West, they function as cultural authorities of the West. They accept their professions as their identities, which both enables them and limits them in understanding the experience that awaits them in Callimbia, when a newly-founded government takes them hostage. In this essay I will deal with their changes of perceptions, that challenge Western stereotypes. Howard, in contrast to those who surround him, is critical, thoughtful and inteligent. According to the narrator, Lucy, similarly, cannot be considered to be too much shaped by the forces that surround her. Although the narrator indicates that her social position plays a part in determining her life and personality, Lucy by no means falls into the passive...

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