Paullo Coello
The devil and Miss Prym:
An eternal struggle between evil and good.
As he
did in his most of novels, P.Coello attempts to illustrate in this
distinctive work the eternal fight of the human
soul between light and darkness. How can
people enlightenth their spirits and prevent the attractive desires to
lead them to be the confidential servant
of the evil?
M… the stranger examines in his journey the nature of the soul behavior, and discovers
her resistance against the bad under the
attractiveness of the gold. He chooses his target carefully, a small calm
village, with a tiny number of inhabitants, where he tried to awake their
common eagerness toward the richness. As soon as he arrive in Viscos, he meets
Miss Pryn the main character, whose characteristics and lifestyle allow her to become a suitable candidate for
the stranger to reach his aim. This first meeting was in a nearby forest where he shows her the
golden bars and persuades her to convince Viscos’s inhabitants to kill one of
them and he would give them the gold.
After a long time of hesitation, Miss Pryn
decided at last to tell the story to Viscos inhabitants, who they choose Berta
as a victim to alter Viscos into wealth.
Basically, Berta is accused as a witch, due to
her very weird personality. She spends all her life outside her house
watching every simple movement in the
village. Besides, she keeps in touch with the soul of her late husband . Despite the fact that her
main role is to protect the whole village from the Devil, she is chosen as a
victim. There, in my opinion the key question arises: how can the guardian soul of the village be the victim at the same time? Did the
inhabitants fail in their decision?.
Undoubtedly,
the main purpose of the author is to show the reader the dark side of
human being especially the churchman who becomes the Devil instrument in this
novel .
Finally, the light shone in a dark corner of
the Miss pryn’ soul when she made the
right decision against the priest=
religion power, and village’s mayor=politic power, and dissuaded others to commit this brutal tragedy.
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