Examples Of Entrapment In Araby

Entrapment is one of the theme that surrounded characters in a number of stories discussed and I personally believe that this theme was most interestingly evident in the stories “Birthmark” and “Araby”. Within this essay, the nature and the effects of the characters’ entrapment between the stories will be evaluated in terms of how they contrast and differentiate. The ideas that will be focused on in this essay is how the story “Birthmark” and “Araby” shows a person’s entrapment within a conflict or a situation based on their ego and how they portray the theme of entrapment as something that eventuates from obsession. Particularly evaluating the story Birthmark, ego is the factor which drove the scientist to become trapped with their mindset as it was continuously suggested and shown within the story that he is profoundly interested of his wife and how to make her flawless. Firstly, this was shown in the text when the narrator quoted- “He had left his laboratory to the care of an assistant, cleared his fine countenance from the furnace-smoke, washed the stain of acids from his fingers, and persuaded a beautiful woman to become his wife.” The usage of asyndeton created a huge impact of rapidness and spontaneousness by describing the changes that he had made to his life as a scientist in order to persuade “a beautiful …show more content…
However instead of seeing Mangyan’s sister the way he wanted to see her, he saw her talking to other gentlemen instead which was suggested to truly have discouraged him. Eventually, by the end of the story he realised what his obsession towards the girl had lead him to. This was shown in the text when he quoted -“Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.” He was regretful and furious of what his interest towards the female had trapped him