The Stone Angel
Compassion is the key to morality, and those who possess this quality are people of a caring and genuine nature. Margaret Laurence's character, Hagar Shipley, is someone to whom compassion is foreign. She lives a life obsessed with her public image and appearances, an obsession that leaves her bereft of true humanity. In The Stone Angel, Hagar Shipley lives a life blinded by her pride, ignorant of real emotions and feelings; it is only through penance and atonement is she able to find inner peace and personal salvation. Accomplish The stone angel is the central image in the novel, and one that represents the main character as being "doubly blind" (3). Hagar allowed her pride in herself, her social position and her family to control her self-image, making her cold to the needs of the heart. As a child Hagar will not subject herself to anything below the standard that she set for herself. This is the sole reason for her refusal to pretend to be her dead mother in order save her brother Dan, "[t]o play at being her…was beyond me." (25). Hagar is unable to give the comforting love of which Dan was in desperate need. She is unable to reduce herself to acting as something she is not, to show compassion or tender emotion is imposs
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Approximate Word count = 2283
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)
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