... no one being around to help her, and becomes "stuck like an overturned ladybug I hurt all over, but the worst is that I'm helpless. I grow enraged ... Perhaps the anger gives me strength ... Proud as Napoleon or Lucifer, I stand and survey the wasteland I've conquered. My bowel's knot, That's the indignity of it" (191). Even in victory, she is unable to maintain her pride and dignity. This ... is one of many examples where Hagar's pride has gotten in her way and concealed the "real Hagar ". Her pride has made her doubly blind, just like ... fulfills his destiny, by killing Claudius, thu...

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• Grade Level: High School