Margaret Laurence's "The Stone Angel".

In Margaret Laurences The Stone Angel the chief(prenominal) character Hagar Shipley refuses to compromise which in the end shapes the outcome of her look as well as those almost her. As an senior(a) wo slice faced with death, Hagar comments that, experiencefulness was my wilderness and the demon that lead me there was fear... [I was] never free, for I carried my custody within me, and they give out from me and shackled all told I touched.(292) Hagars stubbornness and soak are the cause for the inadequacy of get by in human races in her disembodied spirit. Hagars riotous felicitate destroys relationships with her novice, Jason Currie, her child Marvin and her husband Bram. Hagars relationship with her fathers is the first and draw alliance in her life. This relationship is the first monumental tint that turns her into an unyielding stone. As a child Hagar takes pride in her fathers ability to suck up a successful life by becoming a self made man [who] had pulled himself up by his bootstraps.(7) And come on above his initial convey of poverty, from growing from nothing into something. Jasons decided reputation and unwillingness to learn any form of failing through emotions becomes a base of Hagars own pride and want of emotions.

Hagars first display of pride is when she is too proud to yell in front of her father when he hits her in penalization for lying. Hagar says later to herself, I see the tears...I fell they are hope the incontinent wetness of the infirm. They are no tears of mine. I shed them, blaspheme against them - let them be gone.(31) Hagar gains the resolve to put before the image of strength at all times and she begins to lay to rest her vulnerability with her pride. Hagar wishes to please Jason moreover her prideful and stubborn personality is... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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