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A Bird In The House - Term Papers

A Bird In The House

The theme of entrapment is evident in Margaret Laurence's ; all the characters in the novel are entrapped. These characters deal with the sense of confinement and the need for escape. Vanessa, Ewen and Aunt Edna all reach personal freedom, however only to a small extent because they are left with the pain of their memories and regrets.
Vanessa reaches personal freedom to a small extent. The stories in show the pains that Vanessa goes through while growing up. Vanessa travels on a journey form ignorance to knowledge. This journey is her comprehension of why things happen, and how the past, present and future are tied together. Vanessa realizes that the past affects the present which ...

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the trapped conditions that aunt Edna was living in and her mother was going to have to live in again. Vanessa always tried to free herself of the things that went on around her by writing exaggerated adventure stories. When Vanessa wrote, it was her chance to get away from the things that made her feel trapped. Vanessa is freed of Grandfather Conner's tyranny when he dies, at least one thinks so. However it is evident in the story "Jericho's Brick Battlements," that Vanessa will never be free of Grandfather Conner. The painful memories that she has of him will remind her everyday that she is not free of his oppression. Vanessa realizes that she is like him when: "[she] wanted to tell [the new owners of the Brick house] to trim their hedges, to repaint the windowframes, to pay heed to repairs. [she] had feared and fought [grandfather Conner], yet he proclaimed himself in [her] veins." ("," p. 191). Thus, it is evident that Vanessa was not free of Grandfather Conner's ...

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he does not raise his voice to her and when he does he instantly apologises. In the story "" Ewen drops the hint that the time when he was away at war was a time when he was free, it was a time in which he was able to explore different places. Ewen says: "It was kind of interesting to see a few other places for a change..." ("," p.91). After Ewen's death Vanessa finds a love letter and a picture of a girl that she believes was her fathers lover. Vanessa "...[hopes the girl in the picture] had meant some momentary and unexpected freedom" for her father ("," p.107). Vanessa realises that her father (Ewen) had been free when he was not at home. Thus, it is clear that Ewen's memories ...

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Added: 6/19/2006 05:37:19 PM
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