A Summation of Pride-Related Occurrences in The Stone Angel :: Stone Angel

A Summation of Pride-Related Occurrences in The cavity saint  Margaret Laurences The Stone Angel is one of the most acclaimed Canadian novels of all time. In this novel, the most usual theme is that of pride this is seen predominantly through with(predicate) the protagonist, Hagar, but also through other characters, such(prenominal) as Jason Currie. As John Moss states, What gives Margaret Laurences vision the redolent dimensions of universal truth is theinterlacing of the destructive and constructive effects of (Hagars) disobedient pridePride is a double-edged sword. Indeed, her great pride helps her to get away with the piecey difficulties she faces throughout her life. This pride, however, also separates inclination and response (J. Moss), resulting in some(prenominal) strained relationships which Hagar was unable to mend. John Moss believes that Hagars pride repeatedly imprisoned her in spite of appearance the confines of thwarted affections and misdirected emotion. More specifically, her pride caused such things as an disturbed marriage with Brampton Shipley and a severance of all ties with her father, Jason, and her brother, Matt. Her pride serves her best in her decease days, when she will not submit to frailty and deferential concern. She rages against the dying of the light with the same wrong-headed spleen that she had always displayedin the counterpointed present herpride is talkative (J. Moss). Definition of Pride Pride n. 1. Inordinate self-esteem high mental picture of ones own importance or worth conceit. 2. arrogance haughtiness. 3. honorable vanity personal dignity. 4. smug pleasure taken in the success of oneself or another. 5. a person or thing in which one takes such pleasure. Analysis of the Theme of Pride via a Short Summation of Pride-Related Occurrences The initiatory reference to pride is in the second sentence of the novel Hagar describes the Stone Angel as my mothers angel that my father bought in pride to smirch her bones and proclaim his dynasty (3). Hagars father was a very proud man, a trait that was passed on to his daughter, and he takes great pride in this atrociously expensive statue, which had been brought from Italy and was pure white marble (3). Hagar recollects exhibiting her pride as premature as age 6 when she says There was I, strutting the board sidewalk the like a pint-sized peacock, resplendent, haughty, hoity-toity, Jason Curries black-haired daughter (6). Jason Currie was a self-made man who had pulled himself up by his bootstraps (7).