The Importance Of Internal Despair In Literature

“Internal Despair”

Human behavior has been discussed repetitively as any experience we endured to be a lesson, whether it be bad or good experiences. These lessons being learned mold us into the individuals that we become as we mature. On the contrary, it is found that some people experience more hardships than others in a set amount of time. Since we all are dealt our “cards of life” differently, the way we play them will determine our results of life. Expressed through literary works, this author used various methods of simile and metaphor to declare what psychological, physical, mental, and emotional experiences his characters endured. Throughout the “life span” of their work, they went from a dark, child-like way of explanations to a …show more content…
As the boy and girl gets older, they marry each other. However, now they are older and having to face the fact of their hardships from over their younger lifetimes. He wants to show his wife where his whole life started at the philosopher’s stone house. Being in the forest brought discomfort to the woman as she remembered the druids and felt the rain. This maybe be the symbol of past religion that she was involved with. Druids are known as ancients that partake in Celtic beliefs, and realization all her mistakes could have caused the cobwebs to acquire in her throat. Meanwhile, the philosopher has come to tell the story of his problems with termites eating at his headboard making noises louder and louder as time went on. Eventually, he stuck his finger through the hole and the termites began to make burrows within his arm. The holes found on his arms represent how things dug holes in spirit, and the termites still remaining are simply the problems still eating him alive. These “holes” that everyone receives mold us to who we are today, or “…everything we were came from holes like theses…” Our problems influence us to either change, or remain letting the problems eat you up. In this case, sticking his finger in the holes caused the problems. Thus, proving that the problems we bring on to ourselves bring on more internal hardship then problems we have no control