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Armistice (I), 11 Nov 1918
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Life After Life, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Life, Reincarnation, and Alternate Possibilities
Fate vs. Choice
Family and Love
War and Death
Gender Roles and Expectations
Summary
Analysis
Mrs. Glover wakes Dr. Fellowes and opens the curtains even though it is still dark outside. She tells him that there’s been an accident, and he is needed elsewhere: a farmer has been trampled by a bull.
Again, Atkinson returns to the scene of Ursula’s birth in order to indicate a reincarnation. The fact that each of the pieces of the scene moves forward in time also indicates a similar kind of moving for Ursula as she learns more each time she is reincarnated.
Themes
