Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
Describe symbolism in Prisons We Choose to Live Inside by Doris Lessing
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Lessing shares a story about a tree in France, which is associated with a traitor, and subsequently cut down. She regards these events as symbolic of an "awful primitivism" that sometimes still holds humans in its grip.
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside