The Theme Of Death In Celia Garth By Gwen Bristow

Death is something that, no matter what works any human does to prevent, will inevitably happen to everyone, but is death something that just happens without a care or is death a tragedy that causes much mourning a grief? Even though we all will perish, death is very tragic and causes much pain to people. Gwen Bristow uses death in her novel Celia Garth, and shows the pain and sorrow that comes with death by showing it through the reactions and events of the characters in the novel. Death can be very traumatic for friends and families of those who are deceased and can have a permanent impact on lives of those who were touched by the one who has passed on while they were alive. Gwen Bristow does an excellent job showing this through the death …show more content…
The saying “all good things must come to an end,” occurs at the end of the novel. The redcoats took the bells from St. Michael’s Church, which represented a sense of joy to the citizens of Charleston. The bells gave a sound that everybody of any faith enjoyed and they used the bells to tell time and they were thing that set Charleston apart and were special to them (Bristow, 404). The bells were worth a lot of money, but the sentimental value they held to the people of Charleston was worth much more than money and now they had been taken from them. The impact was so bad that there were people out on the streets crying at the news they had just heard, and Celia was so shocked when she heard this that she thought there had been a mistake and somebody would tell her that the bells had not been removed (Bristow 405). Celia prayed” Please, don’t let it always be silent,” showing how much the bells meant to the citizens of Charleston and how much joy their sound brought, without them the city would feel empty and …show more content…
Death is an inevitable occurrence in human life, but it is still very tragic and has a massive effect on people whose loved ones come into contact with it. Each time it appeared in the novel, it had impact on a small group of people sometimes, or sometimes an entire city. When Celia’s parents died, it had a huge effect on only a very small group of people, which were their immediate family. When the bells were stolen however, it affected the entire city of Charleston, because everyone loved the bells. Everyone has been affected by death in one way or another and have experienced the mourning and suffering that comes with it, and it is no different in Celia