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George Bernard Shaw And His Short Story About The Cremation Of The Narrator's Mother
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George Bernard Shaw and His Short Story About the Cremation of The
In a written exerpt from a letter about the cremation of his mother,
George Bernard Shaw recalls her “passage” with humor and understanding.
The dark humor associated with the horrid details of .... Middle of Essay
.... cool, clean, and sunny” as by a graveside, and the coffin
was presented “feet first” as in a ground burial. In selecting aspects of
a traditional burial service, Shaw's mood is revealed as ambivalent toward
cremation by imposing recalled fragments of ground burial for contrast.
Strangely fascinated, he begins to wonder exactly what happens when one is
cremated. This mood of awe is dramatized as he encounters several doors to
observe in his chronological investigation. He sees “a door opened in the
wall,” and follows the coffin as it “passed out through it and vanished as
it closed,” but this is not “the door of the furnace. ....
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