Snake, By DH Lawrence Essay -- essays research papers

Snake     When the snake first came to the water-trough, the narrator was worked up and glad "he had come like a guest in quiet, to drink at my water trough." He "felt so honoured" at this visit whilst at the same time, the voices of his "accursed human education" sensible him to kill it, for it was a gold snake and therefore venomous.     Those voices say to him, "If you were non afraid you would kill him." The narrator "picked up a clumsy put down And threw it" at the snake when the snake was leaving. Like for a moment, the majestic bit of awe was broken and the voices overpowered him so his real cowardice shone through. He had asked himself whilst tincture this awe, if it were "cowardice, that I dared not kill him?" but his real cowardice came when the snakes " book binding was turned."     I also think that when he threw the log at the snake, it was close t o a cry out that he was not to go. He said that it was his voices, but it seems to me that he used that as an excuse. That he was almost onerous to punish the snake for leaving him. The narrator says he felt "A sort of horror, a sort of protest against his withdrawing into that horrid black quite a little" then he threw the log.     The use of words like silently, softly, in the lineage when he is first describing the snake and the snakes motions, serve to get ...