“They feed you in Hell but when you escape from it, you starve.”
(a) Who is the speaker?
(b) What is the mental state of the speaker in the stanza? (c) What is the ‘Hell’ the speaker is referring to?
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Please find below the solution to the asked query:
Please find below the solution to the asked query:
- The speaker is the convict.
- Though the speaker was not happy in the hell, he was still content about the fact that he would get food to eat. He thinks that it is better to be in hell(prison) and get food than to be free and starve.
- The 'Hell' being referred to here is the prison in which the convict was kept and tried for stealing food for his ailing wife.