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Henrietta Rose Innes Porcelain

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In the short story Porcelain by Henrietta Rose-Innes,the theme of mental instability is explored throughout in the embodiment of the main character,Marion. A mentally unstable girl whose core issues are as a result of her upbringing and the traumatic events that came with it. Marion was just a little girl when she faced the cruelty of her mother, suffering from mental illness and in turn committing suicide. While dealing with the heartbreak years later, Marion begins to see that the illness her mother had, began to overcome her state of mind too. WIth this realization Marion has embarked on her own reflections in an attempt to break free from the ever so gripping fear that she will end up like her mother,with no example of a parental figure,without …show more content…

She recreated her mothers episodes by throwing an endless amount of dinner plates and had even realized she does not relate to any relief,but rather,misses her mother in an attempt to feel what she had felt trying to understand why she had left Marion.Wondering if her mothers ending will be her own. However,Marion no matter how much her inner turmoil aligns with her mother,she refuses to be her. So after various violences and aggression with her emotions and the spirals shes gone through she picks up the vase that her aunt had made her while on her journey to heal,covered with various broken pieces of vases she had collected so far and viewed the assortment her aunt made. ” Running her finger over the smoothed-off edges,she poked her fingertips into the gaps,feeling the parts that would always be missing,and the parts that were whole again.” (Rose-Innes,46) Marion views this assortment of vases as herself,shattered into many pieces slowly being picked up one by one to try and create whole. Yet there will always be noticeable flaws, when Marion had been abandoned by her mother and faced her

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