Snake, By DH Lawrence Essay -- essays research papers

Snake     When the snake first came to the water-trough, the fabricator was excited and glad "he had come like a knob 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 tuition" advised him to kill it, for it was a gold snake and therefore venomous.     Those voices verbalize to him, "If you were not afraid you would kill him." The narrator "picked up a unqualified log And threw it" at the snake when the snake was leaving. Like for a moment, the regal spell of awe was broken and the voices overpowered him so his real cowardice shone through. He had asked himself whilst feeling this awe, if it were "cowardice, that I dared not kill him?" but his real cowardice came when the snakes "back was turned."     I also think that when he threw the log at the snake, it was close 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 trying 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 cruddy hole" then he threw the log.     The use of words like silently, softly, in the beginning when he is first describing the snake and the snakes motions, serve to get ...