Why Is Miss Brill A Round Character
ENGL 1302
2 February 13
This World Is A Stage In “Miss Brill” the author Katherine Mansfield creates the metaphor of the world being a stage and the character of Miss Brill being an actress. This illusion can determine her to be a round character because she is afraid of being the person that she isn’t. Miss Brill hides her real emotions by hiding behind a teacher role instead of being true to herself. The character Miss Brill arrives at a theme of isolationism and abandonment; by acting Miss Brill can be recognized as a round character by having a hidden emotion by acting a certain manner. To be able to understand why Ms. Brill uses loneliness as a protective wall around her actual personality is because she is …show more content…
Miss Brill spends most of her time in her house serving as her protective barrier from the outside world. She envisions at the park people standing up in unison and dancing and she begins to cry at the thought of it. Consequently, she could be feeling a sense of rejection at that time because she knows that it would be unlikely for people to just casually stand up and dance with her. The type of people she perceives at the park are young and not ones to agree Misses Brills personality, which dampens the temper of her. Therefore she converts to her remoteness to hide herself... “Suddenly he knew he was having the read to him by an actress! ‘An actress!’ – ‘An actress – are ye?’ - ‘Yes I have been an actress for a long time’.”(Mansfield Page 185) From this, it could mean she has been hiding a type of personality from people. Evaluating this inference about Miss Brill can be recognized as a type of character that is having difficult time finding herself by having a diverse
2 February 13
This World Is A Stage In “Miss Brill” the author Katherine Mansfield creates the metaphor of the world being a stage and the character of Miss Brill being an actress. This illusion can determine her to be a round character because she is afraid of being the person that she isn’t. Miss Brill hides her real emotions by hiding behind a teacher role instead of being true to herself. The character Miss Brill arrives at a theme of isolationism and abandonment; by acting Miss Brill can be recognized as a round character by having a hidden emotion by acting a certain manner. To be able to understand why Ms. Brill uses loneliness as a protective wall around her actual personality is because she is …show more content…
Miss Brill spends most of her time in her house serving as her protective barrier from the outside world. She envisions at the park people standing up in unison and dancing and she begins to cry at the thought of it. Consequently, she could be feeling a sense of rejection at that time because she knows that it would be unlikely for people to just casually stand up and dance with her. The type of people she perceives at the park are young and not ones to agree Misses Brills personality, which dampens the temper of her. Therefore she converts to her remoteness to hide herself... “Suddenly he knew he was having the read to him by an actress! ‘An actress!’ – ‘An actress – are ye?’ - ‘Yes I have been an actress for a long time’.”(Mansfield Page 185) From this, it could mean she has been hiding a type of personality from people. Evaluating this inference about Miss Brill can be recognized as a type of character that is having difficult time finding herself by having a diverse