Year of wonders essay
“The plague changes one world and replaces it with another. Discuss
In Geraldine Brooks’ novel ‘Year of Wonders’ many characters worlds change throughout the book as a result of the plague. In particular Aphra Bont, Anna Frith and Michael Mompellion. Aphra is living in a world where she is now alone and starts to go insane. Michael, the once respected town Rector loses his faith after the death of his wife and Anna Frith, the main protagonist of the novel and a very courageous one at that as she tackles the plague head on.
Aphra Bont, the stepmother of Anna and the wife of Joss Bont was greatly affected by the plague as it hit their home town of Eyam. The plague taking many and causing much trauma made people change dramatically with Aphra evolving radically into partaking in witchcraft and black magic. Aphra losing her husband Joss to his own greed of stealing from plague victims as a ‘payment’ for burying them, was punished and died bleeding out from the wounds on his hands. Such a gruesome event made her shift and during the time she was trying to con people into buying plague repelling trinkets and spells under the alias of the ghost of Anys, These were greatly linked to witchcraft and caused people to change and become warped. The ghost of Anys was then discovered to be Aphra and was punished like her husband but this time thrown into a pig pen where she spent the night. Spending the lonely night there she became mad and evolved into an evil woman. After being released she was later found to have turned into a crazed satanic witch chanting. In her last moments she charged Elinor Mompellion and cut her neck, and took her own life “Aphra had turned the knife on herself and sunk it deep into her chest. Mompellion also changes due to the tragic events that follow.
The change of Michael Mompellion is one of a negative nature. As Mompellion’s faith grows into a way of life this leaves himself very vulnerable to, if it were to decade. Michael Mompellion enters the
In Geraldine Brooks’ novel ‘Year of Wonders’ many characters worlds change throughout the book as a result of the plague. In particular Aphra Bont, Anna Frith and Michael Mompellion. Aphra is living in a world where she is now alone and starts to go insane. Michael, the once respected town Rector loses his faith after the death of his wife and Anna Frith, the main protagonist of the novel and a very courageous one at that as she tackles the plague head on.
Aphra Bont, the stepmother of Anna and the wife of Joss Bont was greatly affected by the plague as it hit their home town of Eyam. The plague taking many and causing much trauma made people change dramatically with Aphra evolving radically into partaking in witchcraft and black magic. Aphra losing her husband Joss to his own greed of stealing from plague victims as a ‘payment’ for burying them, was punished and died bleeding out from the wounds on his hands. Such a gruesome event made her shift and during the time she was trying to con people into buying plague repelling trinkets and spells under the alias of the ghost of Anys, These were greatly linked to witchcraft and caused people to change and become warped. The ghost of Anys was then discovered to be Aphra and was punished like her husband but this time thrown into a pig pen where she spent the night. Spending the lonely night there she became mad and evolved into an evil woman. After being released she was later found to have turned into a crazed satanic witch chanting. In her last moments she charged Elinor Mompellion and cut her neck, and took her own life “Aphra had turned the knife on herself and sunk it deep into her chest. Mompellion also changes due to the tragic events that follow.
The change of Michael Mompellion is one of a negative nature. As Mompellion’s faith grows into a way of life this leaves himself very vulnerable to, if it were to decade. Michael Mompellion enters the