the stone angel by margaret laurence summary

My intention here is not to examine all the means by which that vision is worked out (that is beyond the scope of a single essay), but to consider three ways which seem to me to be important: the meaning of Manawaka the continuity of a major device, that of contrasted pairs of individuals and images and an elaborate parallel with Eliot's symbolism of the four elements in The Wasteland.

rendered until the cycle is completed.2 This development imparts to the cycle a rhythm of reconciliation in which the fragmentariness of ordinary life, explored in the separate works, is seen against, and so continually absorbed into, a sense of design and purpose in the universe.And if there were links of this kind, was it not possible that each of the separate works might be seem, from this perspective, as parts of a whole? I In this essay I argue that the Manawaka cycle is unified not only by the centripetal pull of the home town itself, but by the development over the four novels of a vision of the human condition which is not fully The Diviners, a work deeply concerned with the transmission of the values of the past through the generations, reaches back to complete a story begun in The Stone Angel. cohesion that went beyond the mere coincidence of place or the occasional reappearance of a character from an earlier novel.The Unity ofthe Manawaka Cycle DAVID BLEWETT With the publication in 1974 of The Diviners it became clear that Margaret Laurence's series of Manawaka novels were intended to possess a In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

The stone angel by margaret laurence summary