In the novel, Absolution, the writer, Clare Wald searches for the truth that will release her from her nightmares and sleepless nights due to the events from the past. The different events and each and every characters view in the novel provides a different outcome of the truth. It leaves the reader with a sense of confusion and wonder as to what the 'real' truth is. Clare has to accept a form of truth so that she can move on with her life. The statement 'You will know the turn and the truth will set you free' is true in its own way as we can see Clare's relationship with Sam and Mark grants her inner demons at some point to come out and show themselves.
As a mother and sister, Clare Wald seeks meaningful truth so that she can assemble a version of events that will aid her research for absolution. This compiled version will allow her to accept her past peacefully without having the haunting ghosts of Nora and Laura altering her mind rendering her sleepless for nights on end. Clare has dreams of her daughter,Laura, calling her "a monster" because she believes that she failed her "wild beast daughter" by failing to hold herself accountable in the way Laura needed. Clare believes that she should have known what Laura needed and should of helped Laura in what she "would feel compelled to do". Clare receives Laura's Diaries from Lionel and Timothy but these diaries don't provide Clare with the truth nor help her seek absolution. She states "far from leading me to the truth of your destiny, your notebooks only push you further from my sense of who you were". Clare is desperate for the truth about her daughter and worried if she is still even alive. She states, "far from leading me to the truth of your destiny, your notebooks only push you further from my sense of who you were." Clare is desperate for the truth about her daughter and also about whether she is alive still.
Passing - Clare's inescapable fate 1. ... But of course there are many more facts that foreshadow the death of Clare Kendry. ... Clare is used to get what she wants and therefore claims Irene, who has a responsibility to Clare ("Duty") because of their racial togetherness, as her link to blackness. ... If Clare should die! ... This is exactly the feeling that makes Clare suffer s...
LADY CLARE ESSAY The Ballad Lady Clare' is about a woman finding that she is not a rich Lady, but she is in-fact a poor maid. she then goes to her fiancé and, trusting his love for her, tells the truth. The Lady in the ballad was not rich because the real Lady Clare died while feeding from the nurse and the she swapped the child with her own. ... The ballad is very well told because it goes into a lot of detail, explaining some points very well, it also gave you a clear description of lady Clare's personality because, in the ballad although the doe had only just met Lady C...
John Clare and Mary Wollstonecraft were both writing at a time of great social upheaval and change. ... (Tibble 25) Clare's reactions to this can be seen in much of his poetry. ... Brinkley suggests that here Clare is concerned with the loss of 'customary rights' and that Clare's 'woods provide a kind of sweet, equal republic'. (345) Thus as Lucas suggests, laments 'for a destroyed world occur frequently ... throughout Clare's work. ... (Kelly 219) Clare's view of the French Revolution was very different to that of Wollstonecraft's ...
Clare demonstrate how these gender issues were played out during European medieval times. ... Clare of Assisi. ... This admonition is a lesson for not allowing oneself to assume the role of being over others, yet he assumes the role of being the leader of his order and "Father- (Clare, 211) to Clare and her sisters. ... Reason for this assumption can be found throughout the various works of Clare where she regards Francis as being the "Father- and sisters as being "poor- (Clare, 211) living in "humility- (Clare, 219) and have "patience in difficulty and weakness- (Clare, 223). ... Franci...
Gary Orfield and Johanna Wald, both researchers at Harvard Graduate School, state that the policy of high-stakes testing was first conceived to help raise the educational standards but has only discriminated against high poverty and minority students. ... Orfield and Wald suggest that the reform movement of high stakes testing has worsened the educational problem; that tests are unfair to minority students, "undermine teachers," and refuse high school graduation to students who do not pass a one-shot test (1). ... Also, Orfield and Wald point out that high stakes testing narrows the curricul...
Clare tells her childhood friend Irene Redfield that "she can't know how in this pale life of [Clare's] all the time seeing the bright pictures of that other that [Clare] once thought [Clare] was glad to be free of It's like an ache, a pain that never ceases" (145). ... Irene considers Clare to be "selfish, cold and hard" (144). ... Clare may not be the typical tragic mulatto. ... Clare feels is so necessary in her life. Passing becomes for Clare is a never-ending problem. ...
It is not Clare's passing that Irene's hates, but Clare's success. ... Irene and Clare both wanted this luxurious life. However, Clare succeeded at it much faster then Irene. ... Clare Kendry was hungry for love, passion, and money. ... Clare was jealous of Irene's life and vice versa. ...
Clare's husband, John, does not know of Clare's past and married her thinking that she was a white woman. ... Clare is also cheating on him with the Irene's husband, and this puts Irene into a situation where she could easily ruin Clare's relationship and get Clare out of her life. ... Irene knows Clare's secret the entire novel and Irene is perceived by the narrator to hate Clare for many reliable reasons. Clare is having an affair with Irene's husband in the book, but for some reason Irene still does not tell anyone about Clare's secret. Irene thinks of he...
The Thrust's Nest', by John Clare, is a poem describing a thrush which built her nest and laid her eggs and the birth of the little birds. ... Clare's purpose is to share with us his observation of a thrush's efforts to build a nest and the happy moment when new lives were given birth in the nest. ... Now the reader is taken by Clare into his adventure. ... In the last part, Clare reveals the reason. ... In order to present the reader a suggestive poem, Clare is not only satisfied in portraying a picture, but gives hints to lead the reader to read between the lines. ...
