Margaret Laurence's "Stone Angel" and Fifth Business "Fifth Business"

Every piece of literature that has been written uses words, which have concrete meaning

in litigateaday life. As a result of that it cannot ever be completely abstract. Theme is what sustains its link with living, by giving it a return or idea that extends it beyond the aesthetic, and unites it with the preoccupation of humanity. A work can have one theme or many, and Marg aret Laurences and Davies Robertsons congenital humanism makes it very inevitable that in this respect their novels are multifaceted. In their novels The Stone holy man and The twenty percent Business the important characters Hagar Shipley and Dunny Ramsay through the birth, lack of feelings and escape from the family have undergone similar feelings of evil through their whole lives.

        First of all, Dunny the main character of The Fifth Business, for whom the snowball was intended, feels extremely guilty because he knew that Percy Staunton with whom he had earliest a fight, would throw one final snowball at him before he goes into the house for supper. To avoid the coming snowball he dodges around pregnant Mrs. Dempster who at the same clipping gets hit on the head, causing her great pain.



Dunny is just stint puberty and listening to his mothers reports on the premature birth of capital of Minnesota Dempster gave him the sense that he is directly involved in it. Furthermore, he has been raised in a strict Presbyterian household that has encourage him to feel guilty about almost every play along of duty.

         So at the beginning of the two novels the reader learns that the premier(prenominal) feeling of guilt that the two main characters share is a birth of one of the characters presented in the novels. In The Stone Angel Hagar blamed herself for being born, because it was she that...

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