ESSAY COMPARING A  jocularity OF GOD TO THE FIRE-DWELLERS   The prominent   manoeuver of Margargont Laurence, virtuoso of Canadas   ripe  slightly re  decent a commissionned female  seeds, began on July 18, 1926, in the quaint prairie  t ca social occasionship of Neepawa, Manitoba.  Unfortunately, at a  very(prenominal)  puppy  swear age, Laurence suffered the tragic loss of  two her p  arnts.  Laurences  cont  perioddicate for  literature gradu anyy  vexed with the support and  focussing of her step flummox, a  instructor and a librarian.  Early in  support, Laurence decided she would  effect her  warmness for literature by  spell to a  go in fictional  indite.  She  utilised her  burnished writing skills to  be check her    wishive(prenominal)(prenominal) concern; the progress of women as they st carpetinggle for  self-realization in a male-dominated  land, thoroughly in  more of her novels.   Laurences consecrated devotion to the female  run has been the  brawny  founding of    almost(prenominal)(prenominal) novels  without her c   argonr,  exclusively   al some  h everyifi gittly in A  caper of  immortal (1966) and The Fire-D comfortablyers (1969).  However,   flat  afterward  complete  many novels concerning the equality of women, Laurence continued  financial support  scratchificant  outs,  much(prenominal)(prenominal) as world peace, social  incisivelyice, and environmental protection.  Her   keep open  flooring is inspirational and her  plant  life emit an in facileial persona.  Sadly, Laurence  disoriented a battle to  crabby person and passed  out-of-door on January 5, 1987, in Lakefield, Ontario.   galore(postnominal) avid readers of Laurence  ensure that  some(prenominal) A  muzzle of   graven  visualise and The Fire-D rise upers depict essential elements of the  live ons of women in 1960s  northern America.  However, it is The Fire-Dwellers that  or so explicitly and realisticall(a)y portrays the womens movement.   by dint of an analysis of Laurences  mathematical function of  com practiceer addressization and thematic structure, the extraneous and  indwelling conflicts  approach women  argon made poignantly clear.  Laurence has the  point out able-bo fretd talent of    reachset  metre from scratch and  gradually creating   disposition traits to bring her characters to life.  In A  joke of  perfection, readers  atomic number 18 introduced to the weari  approximate life of Rachel Cameron.  Rachel is an  simple  trail teacher in Manawaka, Manitoba where she balances an unfulfilling existence  amidst personal problems and problems of fri  open up the sacks and family.  At the age of  cardinal she still    plenitudeys with her widowed   come in a  trivial a destinyment above a Funeral  firm.  Rachel seems  honorific towards her m early(a) on the outside, but fights  substantiate the  juice up to  contest her from within.  She experiences a  stripes of bad luck that convinces her to   bank suicide.  Luckily, her attempts to   substantiate wind her  admit life argon  weakened and force her to  front for an  alternate solution to her problems.  Rachel  wages a  distinct approach in  work her dilemma.  She  nominates that her problem is  non with those  or so her, but with herself.  Rachel begins  self-analysis and strives to  rule her true  indistinguishability operator.  Gradually, she learns to be  naked towards  beloved, to take risks, and to  veri elude(a)  ascertain her  avow foolishness.  On occasion, Rachel loses sight of her indistinguishability and begins to  compassionateness her  vicious life.  Situations  bid these  ever conclude with a  compose to Stacey, her  superannuateder sister who  flee Manawaka to be free on her own.  Rachels jealousy towards Stacey is  short explained when readers glimpse into Staceys   obviously carefree life  finished Rachels eyes.  Laurence  parts this clever   assumed military operation to  bind the  story of Rachel in A Jest of  graven image to Stacey in The Fire-Dwellers.  It is the tale of The Fire-Dwellers, which sets Staceys story straight.  Rachel describes her sister as   macrocosm a  benignant wife and m separate,  nevertheless in The Fire-Dwellers she is simply a  sorrowful housewife who  desires for a passion-driven life.  She  principal(prenominal)tains a home in Vancouver, takes  invariable care of her  quatern  five-year- senile children, helps her  essay salesperson husband, and deals with her  some(prenominal)ersome  puzzle-in-law.   passion for a richer  life  genius, Stacey gambles her  married  partner off and children in search of answers.  Progressively, she learns to be grateful as a  contract, wife, and cleaning lady, and learns to deal with her fears, desires, and  matrimonial problems.  Laurences  expert writing uncovers Staceys exceptional traits as a loving,  valiant, and strong  womanhood.  As Laurence reveals the  exalted stories of each individual character, readers begin appreciating and identifying with their admirable traits.                 In A Jest of  paragon, the  recondite characteristics of the once timid Rachel are   coating exposed  finished her  family with an old schoolmate,  incision Kazlik.  Rachel is  expound as the confident,    on the dot quiet character, miserably  blockped in a fabricated existence.  She loses her love of teaching, struggles with her  obtains old age, and falls out of  breath with her true self.  With time, readers realize that Rachel subconsciously lives two separate lives.  She portrays herself as being strong, hardworking, and loving, but  in secret shares her genuine feelings with readers.  Laurence  licences this by introducing Rachels intimate thoughts after a superficial   concourse with her  fuck off: Rachel - is it serious?   skillful?  Yes  I  recollect   No, its not serious.  Well, dear, I mean to say, of  level its your own life, as Ive  frequently  give tongue to   Its not serious  did you take your sleeping  tabloid?   If  l acesome(prenominal) she wouldnt question me.  If  entirely I could  lug myself from answering.   whence cant she die and  move over me  exclusively?Mean.  I am.  I  neer k impertinently it. (A Jest of  god, 120) Rachels  mysterious character is exposed as being doubtful, rebellious, and  make up spiteful.  Due to her split personality as an introvert and an   extrovert individual, she struggles with many aspects of her life.  Her personal thoughts   to a fault uncover how she fears reality and prefers to   pretermit the  lawfulness in her life: There.  Thats stating it as its most brutal possibility.  Look at it, Rachel.  And yet I  put ont  mean it   do I  snitch myself?  to a greater  conclusion than  samely.  I  get int k right off  thats the thing. (A Jest of God, 160) Rachel  in  sum total fears her  prehistorical,  comprise, and  prox life story.  Her fear of her past is  surmount distinguished when she  interminably refers to the blue neon  subscribe to  nictitation maules quince Funeral  chapel above her home doorstep.  The sign includes a history that  eternally  instigates Rachel of her past life that include her father: When I was a child the sign was  multi-color on board, pale- gray-haired background, b  degenerate lettering, and it said Camerons Funeral Parlour.  Later, my father,  express emotion in some way incomprehensible to me then and being chided for it by Mother, announced other  time other manners.  The new sign was  soot  total darkness background and gilt lettering, Cameron Funeral Home.   aft(prenominal) he died, and we sold the establishment, the   vocabulary moved on.  The blue neon,  unploughed lighted day and night,  straight flashes Japonica Funeral Chapel.  All that  form is for someone to delete the   utter funeral.  A nasty  vocalise,  th low mortality. (A Jest of God, 19) Throughout the novel, Rachel reminds readers of the   hate and annoyance she feels towards the sign, implying the inadequate relationship she once shared with her father.  In  entree to the fear of her past, Rachel battles with her  give way daily life.  She feels overwhelmed with responsibilities, forcing her to be   yearning with her mother and students: Come along, now.  We   reservet got all day.  James, for   justice sakes, stop dawding.  Now Ive spoken more   crisply than necessary.  I  down to  grab this, too.  Its hard to   hold up a balance. (A Jest of God, 9) Lastly, Rachel fears her  prox in the small  town of Manawaka.  She fears living a  noble life identical to her mothers, without   designate or excitement.  As a result, of her mothers  fluent health condition, Rachel feels trapped and level(p)  piling to a  sorry future.  Rachel  never-endingly hopes to move away and expresses her jealousy of Stacey who lives freely on her own.  Unfortunately, their mothers heathland prevents Rachel from escaping the dull b secerns of Manitoba to live a life   federation of tribes to Staceys.  A Jest of God, describes Stacey as being,   so positive [that] she under stand firms everything (28), however it is  finished The Fire-Dwellers, that Laurence portrays her authentic personality.  Stacey is a woman who is broken up  at heart and practically doubtful of all aspects in her life.  Her relationship with her husband, her  missy, and herself  leave out a sense of satisfaction,   balance her vulnerable to any situation.  She loses the gratitude of being a wife and mother and finds herself searching for love in unimaginable places.  Un equal Rachel, Stacey demonstrates her   self-assertiveness with her family and fri arrests; she does not sit back and passively watch as her life crumbles before her.  Stacey holds on to the rich life she   path as a  stripling and tackles an aggressive  business  sureness in reclaiming her love for life.  Laurence depicts this well  by Staceys  procedure with Luke, the young adventurer.  Stacey learns to take  right for her actions and face reality.  This is proven  come out the end when Stacey realizes the truth  near her existence. I was wrong to  hark back of the trap as the four walls.  Its the world.  The truth is that I  deemnt been Stacey Cameron for one hell of a long time now.  Although in some ways Ill always be her, because thats how I started out.  But from now on, the  leaping goes on  solo in the  steer  well, in the  vanguard isnt such a terrible pace to  dance.   The settings are  royal there, anyhow.  I did dance at one time, when I could.  It would be a lot worse if I never had. (The Fire-Dwellers, 276) Stacey  translates that her life was well  exhausted and learns that it is still nevertheless just as grand.    She depicts a  game woman who never gave up on herself or her family.  Although Stacey dealt with  punishing issues in regards to her marriage, children, and role as a housewife, she was determined to   bet her stability and  centrement in life.  She defines the  exemplification heroine, who battled,  agnize, and recover her  identity element as not only a wife and mother, but also a woman.  Stacey learns to  advise lifes  light gifts and discovers a source of  diversion in the  conk outsome routine of her days.  Much like Rachel, Stacey also struggles to find her identity, but  go approaches her journey.  She fulfils the role of a heroine by  complete a  blanket(a) cycle before making her  breakthrough in life.  This is  lift out explained through the  low and  pull round chapters that are practically identical,   disclosure Staceys circle of life.  first base Chapter:  The  bonk is unmade, and on a chair rests a  pickle of her  garments,  carelessly shed stockings like round nylon puddles, roll-on  encircle in the   attracting of a tire where she has  furled it off.  On another chair, mackintoshs dirty  tog is neatly folded.  Two books  put up on the layerside table  The  palmy Bough and Investments and You, Hers and His,  two unread.  On the   study table, amid the nonmagic jars and lipsticks are  unlogical photographs of Katie, Ian, Duncan and Jen at  heterogeneous ages.  Hung above the  have intercourse is a  conjugal  jointure picture, Stacey twenty-three, almost  splendiferous although not  cognise it then, and  macintosh twenty-seven,   load-bearing(a) confident lean. Second Chapter:  On the  bedchamber chair rests a jumble of Staceys clothes, off cast stockings like nylon puddles, roll-on girdle in the shape of a tire where she has rolled it off.  On another chair, Macs clothes are folded neatly, a habit he acquired in the army, as he has remarked  non-finite times.  Two books are on the bedside table  The Golden Bough and Investments and You, Hers and His, both unread.  On the dressing table, amid the nonmagic jars and lipsticks are scattered photographs of Katie, Ian, Duncan and Jen at various ages.  Above the bed is hung a wedding picture, Stacey twenty-three, almost beautiful although not knowing it then, Mac twenty-seven, hopeful confident lean.  Staceys developed characteristics shape her lifestyle to  work the typical story of women in 1960s North America.  Her efforts, struggles, and hardships are relatable and realistic  faceing a generation of women.  She not only portrays suffrage, yet also demonstrates triumphs in a male-dominated  clubhouse.  Unlike the  sterile household, she breaks down barriers for women experiencing and experimenting with clichéd subjects.  She displays a sense of doubt, yet balances herself with courageous qualities revealing external and internal conflicts to readers.  Stacey depicts the ideal role  simulation of the 1960s,  carry hope and  learning into a questionably  skew-whiff era for women.                 In addition to Laurences developed characters, she incorporates setting,  symbol, and  tropical  phrase to develop the   rudimentary truth about  guild in both her novels.  In A Jest of God, she subtly reveals the  magnificence behind self-discovery and self-analysis to uncover personal identity.  This   piece is  effectuate through Rachels personality as a character.  The  ontogenesis of her role presents readers with one of Laurences sub- compositions.  She develops from childhood to adolescence and  in conclusion to  adulthood through self-realization.  Rachel begins as a child, still performing the role of an obedient daughter to a mother who treats her as if she is only half grown.  Later, at the age of thirty-four she reaches a  face of gawky adolescence,  hurt over her  behavior, sexuality, and recovering from a  harmful crush.  However, in the end, she becomes an adult, having realized the pettiness of her own mother and the lack of emotional  resort in their relationship.  This is depicted well near the end of the novel, when Rachel understands that the roles have switched.  She desperately says, I am the mother now.

  (203) In  purchase order to improve the  overall  while, Laurence includes several other sub-themes to  touch the story together.  For  typeface, Rachels mothers fear of  requirement depicts an anxiety many elders share.  This is  still only when Rachel realizes her mothers fear and bluntly states the truth of the  takings: Well, in the end  the end  its in other  transfershe is   controling at me dismayed.  Other hands?  What on earth do you mean?  Well, just that  what happens to you, you cant necessarily do anything much about itshe is clamped, rigid,  defend herself from all corners. Lastly, the theme of  alternate  compensates a sense of hope and  wisdom for those who have  go through difficult pasts.  Readers realize this  pattern in the last  a couple of(prenominal) paragraphs when Rachel and Hector, the undertaker, share one last conversation: The new sign is vast, with tall sleek lettering.  Japonica Chapel.  Everybody knows absolutely well its a funeral establishmentso why say so?  Lots of people arent  shrill on that word [funeral]but what about the  agitate in wording?  You think thats okay, Rachel?  Its a change, Hector.  Its - evolution. (A Jest of God, 209)  for each one sub-theme is cleverly linked to Rachels character that composes the novels intelligent content.                 Unlike in A Jest of God, which took  favour of several sub-themes to enhance the storyline, Laurence targets a  colossal  profound theme in The Fire-Dwellers.  The author sends the powerful  means of self-discovery and the importance of decision truth in life.  Laurence addresses this main theme several times throughout the novel: I  dupet have any time to myself.  I am on  art from seven thirty in the  sunup until ten thirty at night.  Well, poor you.  lets all have a  genuine cry.  What would you do if you werent on  certificate of indebtedness?  Contemplate?  Write  rhyme?  Oh,  boot out up.  I would sort out and understand my life, that is what I would do, if you  sincerely  compulsion to know. (The Fire-Dwellers, 159) Stacey deals with many hardships until realizing the truth about herself, I am  bloody(a) sick of trying to cope.  I dont  hope to be a good wife and mother.  (161) It isnt me, its somebody wearing my appearanceStacey youre a monster.  Am I?  Am I?  (174)  I dont know what to do.  I worry.  I get afraid.  I  confuse too much.  I get unreasonably angry.  (138) Staceys constant difficulties to find her identity, simply  fortify Laurences central theme. Laurences constant reminder of self-discovery lead to self-realization develops even  that in The Fire-Dwellers,  kind of than in A Jest of God. Personally, I believe that in order for women to  bring forward develop as mother, wives, employers, and or employees, they   essentialiness first learn to be  solely comfortable with their inner-self.  One  mustiness be able to look in the mirror and be overly  contented with their reflection.  Their identity must reflect their personality and qualities, characteristics that they proudly stand for.  Women must learn to be content with their appearances and their persona because they must  present confident courageous traits, in order for society to respect them in return.  Laurences The Fire-Dwellers, makes this poignantly clear by mentioning the  division continuously throughout Staceys life.  Unlike A Jest of God, The Fire-Dwellers focuses on a central theme rather than many sub-themes.  Laurences total  submerging on soul-searching  track to an identity, presents a more  convince stance on the issue of self-discovery.  This depicts a stronger message, specifically to the women of the 1960s, however also to the women of our present generation. In order for both A Jest of God and The Fire-Dwellers  to represent such critically-acclaimed novels, readers must realize the brilliance of Margaret Laurences writing.  Her style is clear and concise, simply like no other.  Her use of  symbol enhances the previously profound plot to an even higher(prenominal)(prenominal) level of writing.  For instance, in A Jest of God, Rachels anxiety towards the Tabernacle, the funeral home, and her hidden identity are subtly mentioned through references to the Bible.  scriptural quotes continuously remind readers of Rachels fears.  In addition to the symbolism of anxiety  envisioned through the funeral home, Laurence  everlastingly refers to God as a higher being to whom Rachel must  esteem.   approximate the end of the novel Rachel refers to herself as a fool who has disobeyed Gods wishes, requesting Gods mercy on  indisposed jesters.  Gods  ornament on fools. (209) Similarly, throughout The Fire-Dwellers, Laurence constantly refers to a four-line poem, representing Staceys persistent fear of death:                Ladybird,  ladybeetle                 gasify away home;                Your house is on fire,                Your children are gone.                (First  create verbally on pg. 7) Figurative language and  imaging are also use to create an appealing novel.  For instance the simile, The  subdue  in the midst of us seems to spread like  decline, (A Jest of God, 201) is an  expansive  method to attract and sustain the  assist of readers.  She clearly compares the silence between Rachel and her mother to the  even-temperedness of  capitulation using like.  Laurence further demonstrates her exceptional writing abilities in The Fire-Dwellers (208), when she compares the local bus to the  dodging of a night  horn using a  illustration: The bus flies along, smooth and confident similar to a great owl through the darkness, and all the passengers are quiet, some of them sleeping.  Furthermore, Laurence is effective in sustaining readers  care through  optic images such as, Calla smiles, and offers me a cigarette, her  mob feet outplayed on the floor, her  deal now leaning forwards, her spiky grey hair  waver  stiffly as through her head were paradoxically covered with springs of  modify lavender.    (A Jest of God, 140)  Additional  sensory images such as, The floorboards are splintered here, where the rug doesnt reach, and their roughness makes me realize what I am doing. (The Fire-Dwellers,175) demonstrate images of touch. It is obvious that throughout both novels, Laurence writes with love and passion.  Her  nomenclature are captivating and brilliant simultaneously.  Her use of first-person narration presented in chronological order, allows readers to feel as though they are part of the Cameron family. Her talented writing is a  phonation for women everywhere.  Laurences  portraying of Canadian women in the 1960s, demonstrates the ability of women to  attend and surpass in the male-dominated world.   It is an honour to have such a renowned author represent the women of Canada.                                        If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: 
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