A Specific Treatment for Global Aphasia

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The Circle of Conversation in The Sacrifice

Adele Wiseman's The Sacrifice is usually interpreted -- quite correctly -- through its relatively blatant Biblical themes and symbols. But conversation is equally important to the novel, in terms of Wiseman's implicit ideas about art and morality. Her concept of art, as an extension of consciousness, is closely related to her idea of conversation as an expression of consciousness. Wiseman's use of the circle as symbol defines the relationship between artist and society. As well, language is a moral implement, and so must be used properly: Thus, when individuals in a community use the language in an ego-central rather than a public way, when they become monologuists rather than conversationalists, they become destructive to themselves, to the community, and to the language

Dialectic, Morality, and the Deptford Trilogy

The question of moral responsibility, the question that led Robertson Davies to write the Deptford trilogy, is continually before us throughout all three novels. At no point is the subjective point of view of the central characters allowed to go unchallenged. Instead, Davies has built his fictional world on an elaborate dialectical structure that allows him to test the perspectives of his protagonists by analyzing their points of view in the light of facts, the rules of reason, and universal human experience. Therefore, one can see that dialectic is not only present in the Deptford trilogy, but that it forms the moral backbone of all three novels. To recognize this is to acknowledge Davies's unquestionable achievement as a moral novelist