"I have even placed flowers on the grave, knowing full well that she is not there never mind the flowers are for Maggie as well she provides a link with the living susanna. I must be the only person who knows that the occupant of the grave is not Susanna. Grave stones don't always tell the true story." --Ruskin Bond.
Susanna Anna-Maria Johannes was her full name and she is the main character in the novel. The novel starts of slowly and picks up momentum very fast. There is a little contradiction from the beginning of the novel to the end. Susanna marries seven and has six kills, ironically the seventh husband does not marry her so he survives to tell the story. He only loves her, he can't marry her as he is younger then her. Each man who comes into her life knows the consequential circumstances the previous one went through but still he walks into the lady's den wilfully and willingly till he goes through the same fate as the predecessor. Each husband tries to do everything to please her but at the end of the day she is displeased by the man and he dies a death which is a conceited murder by susanna. There is realism or naturalism in which the character is a slave to his/her actions. The chain of events follow without the person's control.
In the screen play the characters are well defined. The light effects are dim and action and killing are always shown in night scenes, in darkness. Morning and light is used for showing partying and socialising. It is a black comedy.There is contradiction at the end of the screen play Susanna who is shown as the fast one who falls in and out of love cannot join a nunnery The movie says she confesses and joins the order of nuns as sister Anna. If she accepts Christ the Lord then she automatically becomes a person who has control over her actions there is no need to join any order. Besides the novella tells us Susanna repented and then leaves tne house and stays far away from the materialistic world and the world of men.
Susanna Anna-Maria Johannes was her full name and she is the main character in the novel. The novel starts of slowly and picks up momentum very fast. There is a little contradiction from the beginning of the novel to the end. Susanna marries seven and has six kills, ironically the seventh husband does not marry her so he survives to tell the story. He only loves her, he can't marry her as he is younger then her. Each man who comes into her life knows the consequential circumstances the previous one went through but still he walks into the lady's den wilfully and willingly till he goes through the same fate as the predecessor. Each husband tries to do everything to please her but at the end of the day she is displeased by the man and he dies a death which is a conceited murder by susanna. There is realism or naturalism in which the character is a slave to his/her actions. The chain of events follow without the person's control.
In the screen play the characters are well defined. The light effects are dim and action and killing are always shown in night scenes, in darkness. Morning and light is used for showing partying and socialising. It is a black comedy.There is contradiction at the end of the screen play Susanna who is shown as the fast one who falls in and out of love cannot join a nunnery The movie says she confesses and joins the order of nuns as sister Anna. If she accepts Christ the Lord then she automatically becomes a person who has control over her actions there is no need to join any order. Besides the novella tells us Susanna repented and then leaves tne house and stays far away from the materialistic world and the world of men.
©-Anjana Pai.
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