Sredni Vashtar Analysis

SAKI - Sredni Vashtar analysis stands for the murder by a small boy of a woman. I've read it entirely and would like to find another viewpoint for this short story.

As for me, this is the murder of the Woman, the triumph of a small boy over a woman he has always hated and for whom he was a burden.

I loved the quality of the narrative since it starts slowly and then accélérâtes ("promptly").

Il also enjoyed the quality of the words themselves, the different descriptions, be they those about the animals or those about the woman.

The atmosphere is both dull and fierce since the boy is doomed to die as is said at the beginning and since he does triumphs over the Woman.

To me it stands for the trimph of Innocence over Experience. It reminded me to some extent of what I had read long ago about Blake "Songs and Experience" although it was written in the 18th century. A relation might be made since it deals with Innocence and Experience. However with Blake Experience triumphed.

Although SALI is said to be humorist, we cannot find any track of humour in this short story but rather the epitome of a real drama. It is the gender opposition all the more dramatic as the masculine feature is represented by a small boy.

Representing relationships between men and women in terms of opposition is rather sad and to this extent I would not agree with the author but rather think them as complementary. But in this world, that of SAKI, nothing such is possible because the woman is full of hatred for the small boy and thus generates a kind of will of power from him. I think the title suggests that the boy is going to triumph over the woman and therefore we as readers are no longer surprised.

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