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Margaret Laurence's "The Stone Angel".
Title: Margaret Laurence's "The Stone Angel".
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1233 | Pages: 5.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Margaret Laurence's "The Stone Angel".
In Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel the main character Hagar Shipley refuses to compromise which ultimately shapes the outcome of her life as well as those around her. As an older woman faced with death, Hagar comments that, "pride was my wilderness and the demon that led me there was fear... [I was] never free, for I carried my chains within me, and they spread out from me and shackled all I touched."(292) Hagar's stubbornness …showed first 75 words of 1233 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1233 total…route of her life, a life where Hagar ends up alone and uncaring. Her pride destroys her relationship with her father, the love of her son and her marriage with Bram. The Stone Angel simulates the reader into considering, had Hagar chosen to forgive her father and those around her, and had she not hidden her emotions, would Hagar's destiny still have been the same, or would her fate be unchangeable and still the same?
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