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Margaret Laurence’s novel, The Stone Angel is a compelling journey of flashbacks seen through the eyes of Hagar Shipley, a 90 year old woman nearing the end of her life. In the novel, Margaret Laurence, uses the stone angel to effectively symbolize fictional characters.
The term symbolism in its broadest sense means the use of an ....
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.... stone angel in pride and not in grief over the death of this wife: "bought in pride to mark her bones and proclaim his dynasty, as he fancied, forever and a day." (Laurence 3) Jason’s strong ego is emplasized when, at this death, he leaves money to the town for a memorial park that would continue his family name.
The angel is symbolic of Hagar’s pride. Hagar seems to be madeof stone, like the angel. Hagar’s strong pride does not allow her to express her true emotions for fear that she will appear to be soft and weak. As a child, w ....
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