The Stone Angel

The Stone Angel Margaret Laurence's story of The Stone Angel is about the life Hagar Currie an emotionless, stubborn and proud woman. Margaret Laurence uses this stone angel, originally bought by Hagar's father, to embody the qualities of Hagar. These virtues are often identical to those one assumes are possessed by the stone angel and are paralleled many times by Laurence. Throughout the novel, Hagar relives her life through her memories. Over the course of the novel, one realizes that

Margaret Laurence’s two novel; The Diviners and The Stone Angel each consist of a powerful and prominent womanly figure growing up in the town of Manawaka. The exploration of identity and feminism provides the base to each novel. The Stone Angel offers an image of an exceptional character, Hagar, who at age ninety confronts her mortality and is frightened, for all she can see behind her is a life filled with personal failures. Hagar’s extreme fear becomes the necessary spark for a change of heart

Thesis: Hagar causes herself pain throughout her life. Intro: Throughout the book The Stone Angel, Hagar tells us about her life; and the issues throughout it. Although it isn’t super obvious, many of her problems are avoidable, and some of the choices she makes causes her needless pain. She isolates herself, deceives herself, and being metaphorically blind. Throughout her long life, she made choices like these, which makes her unhappy. 1: Throughout the book, Hagar isolates in In these many years

believes that age increases natural piety, like a kind of insurance policy falling due…” From Hagar’s self-centered view, Marvin and Doris function as her executers, trying to deprive her identity by symbolically taking away her home. Thus in The Stone Angel the theme of freedom is linked with the question of human

Pride     In Margaret Laurence’s powerful novel “The Stone Angel”  the theme pride often displayed through the characters.  Each figure had their own way of showing this theme through both actions and words. The recurring theme is exhibited by the behaviors of Brampton Shipley, Hagar Shipley, and her father, Jason Currie.     Hagar Shipley lived her life blind, with pride as her cane for guidance. There was many situations throughout the novel where she made decisions solely based off of her pride

tragic flaw of pride is exposed even at the beginning of the text when learn of how she never let her emotions show and we cannot help but sympathize with her even if she is a holy terror because of her flaw. The greatest aspects of tragedy in The Stone Angel is that because of her singular tragic flaw, Hagar isolates herself and

said, “Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.” Essentially, what this quote tries to convey is, departure from home is necessary to the human soul to truly form one’s true self. Throughout The Stone Angel, Laurence continuously strives to depict how life turns out without appropriate parental guidance through the eyes of Hagar Shipley. Jason Currie, Hagar’s father is demonstrated as a person who is very prideful which sheds off onto Hagar. As Laurence

Excessive pride is associated with one’s need to feel superior, only myopic people display it. Proud people are often emotionless to avoid vulnerability in social situations, because showing emotion at all appears weak. In Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel, Hagar Shipley looks back on her life with regret, and spends most of her life not knowing why she misses so many opportunities. Until she lives without pride, Hagar is oblivious of her mistakes. She fails to benefit anyone else because of her focus

the Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence Margaret Laurence's novel, The Stone Angel is a compelling journey of flashbacks seen through the eyes of Hagar Shipley, a ninety 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 object to stand for something other than itself.  In The Stone Angel, Margaret Laurence uses the stone angel to sybmolize

Whether it is in Manawaka, the Pacific Coast or Shadow point, what is constantly recognized in the number of times water is used. If one were to closely examine these situations, they would soon discover it's symbolic importance. In the novel The Stone Angel, water is presented in the many fluctuations, in Hagar's life. Hagar goes through many stages in her life, where water is represented but without it being physically present. Without the imagery of water, the story would be less effective and meaningful