Emily of Emerald Hill
... was relegated to the role of a victim, there wouldn’t emerge the “Emily” who assumes the role of a victimizer. ... ” This quote aptly depicts my stand of how Emily’s character is both a victim and a victimizer. ... Thus it would be too “one-dimensional” to simply categorize Emily’s character as being either a victim a victimizer or neither. Before attempting to distinguish the dichotomies surrounding this character, the duality that Emily’s character displays can be further exemplified and understood by referring to another literary character. In Tennessee Williams’s “A Streetcar Named Desire”, the situation that the main protagonist “Blanche Dubois” faces is somewhat similar to Emily’s character. ... ” Similarly, Emily’s character starts out as an abandoned victim who is forced into marriage, and who at the end of the text, eventually ends up alone and detached. More importantly, the instances in which Emily is portraye...