Both Uses of
treachery
in
Death and the King's Horseman
- Even the honour of my people you have taken already; it is tied together with those papers of treachery which make you masters in this land.†
Chpt 5 *treachery = betrayal
- It is when the alien hand pollutes the source of will, when a stranger force of violence shatters the mind's calm resolution, this is when a man is made to commit the awful treachery of relief, commit in his thought the unspeakable blasphemy of seeing the hand of the gods in this alien rupture of his world.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
the behavior of someone who pretends to be a friend and then tricks, cheats, or betrays