Darcourt
In The Lyre of Orpheus, Robertson Davies writes about a character named Simon Darcourt who is a Professor of Greek and Latin and is on the board of Directors of the Cornish Foundation. He is excessively a self-diagnosed boozer who hopes to help a young womans vision come true by giving her a scholarship. rightly a management the character Darcourt shows a contradiction in the way he conducts himself publicly and how he conducts himself personally. This woman, a Miss Hulda Schnakenburg, is precise talented in the arts and extremitys to finish an opera that a man named Hoffman began. Her main problem is that she does not have the puritanical funding she needs to finish this project. In short, she will to the highest degree likely be forced into illicit illegal acts just now to make ends meet. In this short passage, Darcourt is interviewing Miss Hulda Schnakenburg, a.k.a. Schnak for a scholarship, and Schnak isnt precise amiable. Darcourts multipersonalities are genuinely(prenominal) much on the contrary.
Darcourt admits to himself that he is an soaker or boozer and in realizing his problem he denies it with coarse pessimism: Wouldnt the Cornish Foundation drive a saint to the nursing bottle?( Darcourt ).
Another example of Darcourts pessimism is when he is trying to decide whether to get into Schnak for the scholarship, and as someone on whom large sums of money were to be risked she struck chill to his heart (Darcourt). He seems to have very little trust in the average person, seeing them by a cynical eye. Darcourt is the type of person who will articulate his mind first without thinking of the consequences of his speech, he is also very upfront about the way he presents information however if it pertains to himself: he was drinking to much, no doubt about it(Darcourt). Even...
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