Sorrow-Acre | What the Thunder Said
Kippen is an educator and specialist on British colonial literature and twentieth-century South African fiction. In the following essay, he discusses "Sorrow-Acre" as an allegory.
Like fable, allegory describes one thing—usually something quite specific—to talk about something else that shares similar features or characteristics. So, for example, Aesop's fable "The Tortoise and the Hare" isn't really "about" a tortoise or a hare; instead, it is about plodding perseverance and mercurial quickness—the tortoise and the hare are merely physical manifestations of these moral attributes. Similarly, Dinesen's "Sorrow-Acre" is neither about a young man named Adam nor about the fate of the widow Piil. These characters are representations of—or standing in for—what...
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