Here i would like to discuss the symbols i consider to be the most important.
To room nineteen symbols.
Great authors use symbols to show an underlying deeper meaning in a story.
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The vigils make someone else take it apart and leave it just at the edge of falling down.
These symbols are the snake eating its own tail the devil poison and the shell.
Symbols women in patriarchal societies are brought up to have certain values like to have a desire to be good mothers and good wives.
In to room nineteen susan a middle aged woman revolves her life around her family.
Then the rest of the students push it over the edge tipping over chairs and desks delighting in destroying a classroom.
The collapse of room nineteen is a harbinger for what is to come in the rest of the book.
Doris lessing in her story to room nineteen uses many symbols to explain how women in patriarchal society feel oppressed and unfulfilled.
These symbols are the snake eating its own tail the devil poison and the shell.
However as much as they try to do these things they find that their passions and instincts are put down and this leads to misery and insanity.
Parkes the rawlings s housekeeper is one of the servers of this world but she needed someone to serve.