Give a brief characters sketch of kasper
Character sketch of Casper give a brief character sketch of kaspar
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In Southey’s poem After Blenheim Kaspar represents the ordinary common people who believe in the claims of authority. He is a common farmer who ploughs the field and grows crops.
Kaspar belongs to that group of people who believe in warmongers who always glorify war to support their own cause by motivating youths to join the army and “sacrifice” their lives for the nation. Kaspar believes in the romantic ideals regarding war and feel proud for the “famous victory” of the English army. He repeatedly utters ‘It was a famous victory’ though it came at the expense of thousands of lives. In fact, he himself was a sufferer, but he feels that these things happen at every famous victory.
However, he has no reason to support his claims of a “great victory”. This is an indication that Kaspar is symbolic of the old people with their old beliefs. They are afraid to think against the authorities, against the set ideals. They are rather conservative and choose to stick to what they have known so far. Kaspar can be viewed as a perfect foil to his grandchildren who represent new ideas, out of the box thinking and questioning things.
Kaspar is an old farmer. He had suffered the ill and harmful effects of a war during his childhood as he fled from his hometown during the war. Not only he is the person who had suffered the ill effects of a war, but also there is a huge number of persons who had suffered the ill effects of the war of Blenheim.
Additional information:
The above given question is taken from the poem, "After Blenheim". This poem is specifically an anti-war poem which throws light on the bad, harmful and ill effects of a war. Moreover, it sarcastically throws light and depicts the mentality of people according to which a war is made famous, on the basis of destruction and number of people killed in it. Also, this poem has a proper rhyming scheme in order to encourage people to read it further.