Being able to adapt has always been a key to survival, whether it be to keep all your limbs intact or to stay emotionally stable adaptation makes us strive. This being said, everyone adapts differently to different situations and therefore a loss for one person and a loss for another person must be treated as their own cases. One who is able to best adapt to their own situation will never become a “tragic hero”. In my eyes, a tragic hero is simply one who cannot adapt. Geraldine Brooks shows in her novel, Year of Wonders, how one may seem to be a strong willed individual, but after being tested can crumble under the pain of losing their prized possessions.
In Mr. Mompellion’s first impression he is shown as an energetic, young and powerful individual capable of manipulation (whether it be for better or for worse). After the outbreak of the plague, sermons acted as a logical approach to the problems at hand while implementing faith as a motivation. “If God saw fit to send this scourge, I believe it would be His will that one face it where one is, with courage, and thus contain this evil." (Pg. 62) Mr. Mompellion was the only person skillful enough to be able to persuade the entirety of …show more content…
Maybe something along the lines of the man being weak and the woman being strong; or maybe that the woman’s spirituality led her to stay strong and the man’s lack of it made him a sinner? A more accurate way to assess the situation without even knowing anyone’s backstory is that the women adapted better than the man. The man may have had a hardship in marriage while the women had one after losing her whole family but in the end, the women’s ability to adapt and move forward gave her a more promising life for the
In Mr. Mompellion’s first impression he is shown as an energetic, young and powerful individual capable of manipulation (whether it be for better or for worse). After the outbreak of the plague, sermons acted as a logical approach to the problems at hand while implementing faith as a motivation. “If God saw fit to send this scourge, I believe it would be His will that one face it where one is, with courage, and thus contain this evil." (Pg. 62) Mr. Mompellion was the only person skillful enough to be able to persuade the entirety of …show more content…
Maybe something along the lines of the man being weak and the woman being strong; or maybe that the woman’s spirituality led her to stay strong and the man’s lack of it made him a sinner? A more accurate way to assess the situation without even knowing anyone’s backstory is that the women adapted better than the man. The man may have had a hardship in marriage while the women had one after losing her whole family but in the end, the women’s ability to adapt and move forward gave her a more promising life for the