Robertson Davies, Feeling of Guilt in Fifth Business

Docs en anglais | 5 pages | 05-02-2007 | Format : | Note : Non noté

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Résumé

Study focusing on the feeling of guilt in Fifth Business written by Robertson Davies. Robertson Davies built his novel, Fifth Business, around one major theme which is guilt. The feeling of guilt is indivisible from that of responsibility. From the very beginning of the novel, the reader is given some information about the title and its meaning, which is directly linked to the feeling of guilt.

Extract:

The beginning of the novel immediately reveals this major theme for it starts with the incident of the snowball thrown by Percy which was supposed to hit Dunny but smashed Mrs Dempster. This made Dunny feel responsible for the lady's pain:“I had never heard an adult cry in pain before and the sound was terrible for me” , for the child's premature birth: « I was perfectly sure […] that the birth of Paul Dempster […] was my fault. »
After Paul Dempster's birth the guilt Duny feels toward The Dempster's sorrow will be demolishing. But paradoxically enough, it seems that it is after Paul started to look more and more like a « normal » child that Dunstan will experience the worst moment of his life as a child. « It was during these weeks that I endured agony of mind that seems to me, looking back over more than sixty years, to have been extraordinary ».

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