Ada Stewart Character Analysis

For a while afterwards, it is as if part of Ada has died but she fights against it. Ada becomes the victim of savage violence at the hands of Stewart. Flora, a witness to the price of her action of betrayal, screams in horror, while Ada experiences her pain in muteness. Silently, she takes a few steps into a puddle and with her skirt swallowing her to collapses in the mud. Stewart sends her finger to Baines with a violent threat and warning that there will be more cut off another finger for each time Baines sees her. As Ada begins to recover, Stewart listens to Ada’s “voice” through her facial expressions and actions. He now understands that there can never be a marriage because there is no understanding between them. Stewart is also trapped like Ada with no voice and is frustrated by …show more content…
After finding the true and equal love in Baines, Ada does not need the piano; she yearns to enter into the real life, that is why she first breaks the coffin, and then sinks it into the sea. She has no contact with the real world and other people. She sacrifices her isolation for an attachment to other people and to life. However, as the piano drops into the sea she curiously and purposely places her foot in the rope to go overboard with the piano. We see her being pulled down under the cold dark sea in slow motion, expressionless. Above Ada, her hair and arms are stretched out in a gesture of surrender and the murky water obscures her, just as she has been masked and silenced throughout this film.Ada gazes around calmly,accepting the idea of death at first before having a change of heart and choice of life encourage her to fight her way to the surface again. Ada suddenly resists and fight against the rope, she slips it off her foot along with her shoe, and frees herself. She regains to the surface, and is saved. She disentangles herself from what once gave her a voice with the realization that she can be happy now