Briefing For A Descent Into Hell
Taken from the novel, Briefing for a Descent Into Hell, the quote, “…in pulsing dark, crouched, I holding on, clutching tight, …rocking, somewhere behind the gate, …and a dark red clotting light and pressure and pain and then OUT into a flat white light where shapes move and things flash and glitter.” (135) is a description of the miracle of birth. Birth symbolizes the beginning of an entire lifetime; a lifetime in which a person will have the chance to make important choices that will shape not only his or her future but who they are as an individual. Briefing for a Descent Into Hell is a story about the personality of a professor by the name of Charles Watkins, who is suffering from amnesia. Found wandering the streets, Charles was admitted as a John Doe by the police into Central Intake Hospital of London, England, where he underwent various treatments, struggling to regain not only his forgotten memories of the life he used to live, but the forgotten memories of the person he once was. Throughout the novel, Lessing frequently calls to question who or what forms an individual’s personality, and where characteristics and traits are established and acquired to form wh
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Approximate Word count = 3106
Approximate Pages = 12 (250 words per page double spaced)
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