Catastrophe, a disaster in which there are very bad consequences based on previous actions, within the story pride seems to be the main cause of the catastrophe. In the short story The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst the theme pride is a double edge sword is shown through metaphors and situational irony.
The author shows the theme pride is a double edge sword through metaphors. The narrator has a disabled brother named Doodle, whom he dislikes. The narrator is ashamed of having a disabled brother, and so he sets out to teach Doodle how to do “normal” things. Not for Doodle, but for his personal pride. The narrator even says, “...that pride, whose slave I was, spoke to me louder than all their voices…” (Hurst) The narrator's pride controls him. The author uses a metaphor to explain to the readers about how much pride the narrator has and what his pride makes him do. …show more content…
The narrator says, “ I did not know then that pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death.” (Hurst) the pride that the narrator has can give him two options. A good side to pride, which allowed him to teach Doodle how to walk, and a bad side to pride. And so, the theme pride is a double edge sword is shown through metaphors.
The theme pride is a double edge sword is shown through situational irony. The narrator makes Doodle touch the coffin his family got for him when he was first born because they didn’t think he would live. The narrator says, “There is within me… a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our own blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction, and at times I was mean to Doodle,” (Hurst) the narrator being prideful, making Doodle do whatever he
The author shows the theme pride is a double edge sword through metaphors. The narrator has a disabled brother named Doodle, whom he dislikes. The narrator is ashamed of having a disabled brother, and so he sets out to teach Doodle how to do “normal” things. Not for Doodle, but for his personal pride. The narrator even says, “...that pride, whose slave I was, spoke to me louder than all their voices…” (Hurst) The narrator's pride controls him. The author uses a metaphor to explain to the readers about how much pride the narrator has and what his pride makes him do. …show more content…
The narrator says, “ I did not know then that pride is a wonderful, terrible thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death.” (Hurst) the pride that the narrator has can give him two options. A good side to pride, which allowed him to teach Doodle how to walk, and a bad side to pride. And so, the theme pride is a double edge sword is shown through metaphors.
The theme pride is a double edge sword is shown through situational irony. The narrator makes Doodle touch the coffin his family got for him when he was first born because they didn’t think he would live. The narrator says, “There is within me… a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our own blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction, and at times I was mean to Doodle,” (Hurst) the narrator being prideful, making Doodle do whatever he