Character Analysis on the Hanging
Karisma Sanchez
“A Hanging “ The short story, “A Hanging” by George Orwell, tells how the narrator’s emotions and feelings change throughout the story, emotions and feelings have a big effect on the theme because the narrators change is basically the main themes of the story. It shows the narrators development as a character by describing him being a guard and witness to a man’s death, without explaining what that man had done wrong.
First he starts off by describing the environment in which the prisoners live, but stays away from describing any of them directly, instead he places them all together with the phrase,
"In some of them (cells) brown, silent men were squatting at the inner bars, their blankets draped around them". I feel that he has done this, in order to focus the tone of the story at the steady, day to day feel that what is about the happen is a regular occurrence, that nothing special is about to occur. As the story continues, the reader is given a purely physical description of the captive about to be executed but no clue is given about the state of his mind, or of what kind of man he may be. So you can tell that the narrator is a guard in this short story.
In the beginning of the story the narrator is very professional and wants to perform his job to the best of his abilities.
The narrator changes throughout the story immensely, he becomes more and more guilty and compassionate towards the prisoner as the story goes on. He begins to change as soon as the prisoner stepped carefully around the puddle on the ground. Once this happens, he begins to include some of his feelings and thoughts, which he previously didn’t include because he was very professional and didn’t include his emotions and feelings. After, the prisoner steps carefully around the puddle the narrator says, “I saw the mystery, the unspeakable wrongness, of cutting life short when it is in full tide” .which the narrator is showing that
“A Hanging “ The short story, “A Hanging” by George Orwell, tells how the narrator’s emotions and feelings change throughout the story, emotions and feelings have a big effect on the theme because the narrators change is basically the main themes of the story. It shows the narrators development as a character by describing him being a guard and witness to a man’s death, without explaining what that man had done wrong.
First he starts off by describing the environment in which the prisoners live, but stays away from describing any of them directly, instead he places them all together with the phrase,
"In some of them (cells) brown, silent men were squatting at the inner bars, their blankets draped around them". I feel that he has done this, in order to focus the tone of the story at the steady, day to day feel that what is about the happen is a regular occurrence, that nothing special is about to occur. As the story continues, the reader is given a purely physical description of the captive about to be executed but no clue is given about the state of his mind, or of what kind of man he may be. So you can tell that the narrator is a guard in this short story.
In the beginning of the story the narrator is very professional and wants to perform his job to the best of his abilities.
The narrator changes throughout the story immensely, he becomes more and more guilty and compassionate towards the prisoner as the story goes on. He begins to change as soon as the prisoner stepped carefully around the puddle on the ground. Once this happens, he begins to include some of his feelings and thoughts, which he previously didn’t include because he was very professional and didn’t include his emotions and feelings. After, the prisoner steps carefully around the puddle the narrator says, “I saw the mystery, the unspeakable wrongness, of cutting life short when it is in full tide” .which the narrator is showing that