Margaret Laurence's, The Stone Angel is a powerful journey of the life of a 90-year-old woman . Hager (Currie) Shipley who narrates her story of growing old and reflects with bitterness, humor, and a painful awareness of own frailties on the life that she led. Hager draws from her childhood experience, daughter of a respected merchant, to her rebellious marriage, Hagar has fought a long and sometimes misguided arguments for independence and respect. Hager is a strong women who portrays stuborness, Her experience of tying in past and present dialogue is a strong woman who possess strong characteristics of being stubborn, argumentative, self reliant, with her life almost behind her she makes a bold attempt towards freedom and independence. The protagonist is Hager (Currie) Shipley tells her story of her life starting with her childhood experiences, her dysfunctional marriage and her dependency in old age to physical challenges guide Hager to grow spiritually. and a reflection of her lifenarrated by a strong woman who is the Hagar Currie Shipley, age ninety, tells the story of her life, and in doing so tries to come to terms with how the very qualities which deprived her of joy. Mingling past and present dialogue she maintains prid in the face of senility, while recalling the life she led as a rebellious yound bride and later as a grieving mother. Hager is a strong woman who posess strong character traits Laurence gives us a portrait of a remarkable character and at the same time the picture of old age itself, with the pain, the weariness, the terror , the impotent angers and physical mishaps; the realizations that others are waiting and wishing for an end.
Angel is a compelling journey seen through the eyes of a woman nearing the end of her life. At ninety, Hagar Shipley speaks movingly of the perils of growing old and reflects with bitterness, humor, and a painful awareness of her own frailties on the life she has led.
"The Stone Angel," by Margaret Laurence, is a novel written through the eyes of Hagar, the ninety year old protagonist who battles with a constant fear of being forgotten in her remaining years of life. ... Steven and Tina play a subtle, but powerful role in "The Stone Angel," as their relationship with Hagar are critical to her revelations during her last years of life. ...
The Way The Plot Develops The Meaning Of The Title In The Stone Angel In The Stone Angel, Margaret Lawrence portrays a woman attempting to understanding herself and her life. ... These characteristics and those of the stone angel, which was made of stone, was erected out of pride, and has no eyes, are strikingly similar. ... At this point Hagar realizes that her heart is made of stone, and that she has been hard and has never opened up to anyone, like the stone angel. ... Hagars blindness is comparable to the stone angel because the stone angel never had any eyes ...
The literary purpose of the beginning part of Stone Angel is to provide expository information on the main characters, the setting, and the situation through the use of symbolism. ... The symbols of the stone angel, the cemetery it is in, and the flowers found within allow us to glimpse into the main characters head before she is formally heard or discussed. ... The stone angel stood not as a tribute, but rather as a means for self-advancement in the eyes of the town. ... Just as those who cared not at all about her carved the stone angel in a distant place, so does this woman seem to h...
Can we become angels? ... What is the origin of angels? ... Can we become angels? ... Angels rolled away the stone from the front of the tomb. ... This angel" final words here close the door on angel worship he says, "Worship God." ...
The Stone Angel As I began reading The Stone Angel I didn't think I would be able to enjoy the novel just because it is not really the type of book I would read. ... And I think the whole purpose of the stone angel in the graveyard is the one thing that never really changed through out Hagar's life it just remained constant, looking over things....
Hagar Shipley is the metaphorical stone angel of the novel. ... (The Stone Angel, 57) She fears that Marvin and Doris merely want her house and things in the house. ... (The Stone Angel, 242) At this point she became an emotionless, inanimate object. ... (The Stone Angel, 87) Hagar comes to pride herself on her self-restraint and emotionless ness. ... As a result she turns out to be just as hard and unyielding as the stone angel itself. ...
Biblical Archetypes in The Stone Angel In many great novels, the author alludes to religious annotations or other fictional and non-fictional works to increase the overall dramatic effect. ... In The Stone Angel, Margaret Laurence's characters refer time again to religious proverbs and Biblical stories. ... Margaret Laurence takes an article out of the Bible about an Egyptian bondwoman named Hagar, and uses her as the archetype for Hagar Shipley in The Stone Angel. ... Taking a look at The Stone Angel, we can see how Margaret Laurence plays skilfully with her symbolism. ... The p...
In The Stone Angel, Margaret Lawrence portrays a woman attempting to understanding herself and her life. ... These characteristics and those of the stone angel, which was made of stone, was erected out of pride, and has no eyes, are strikingly similar. ... At this point Hagar realizes that her heart is made of stone, and that she has been hard and has never opened up to anyone, like the stone angel. ... Hagar's blindness is comparable to the stone angel because the stone angel never had any eyes carved into it. ... These characteristics revealed through out the story describ...
