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Volume : II, Issue : IV, May - 2012

Affirmation of Human Life in Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel

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Published By : Laxmi Book Publication

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The present study examines the theme of affirmation of human life through the character of a ninety years old woman, Hagar Shipley who suffers throughout due to of her personal attributes such as sense of pride, notion of independence and idea of self-respect, but at the same time these attributes keep her affirmative to grapple with her personal demons, and to struggle to provide meaning and purpose to her life through the process of self-examination.

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SOMVEER, (2012). Affirmation of Human Life in Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. II, Issue. IV, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/969.pdf

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