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CHARACTER ANALYSIS KAZIA FROM THE WEDDING GIFT

Kezia is an orphan, brought up by her adopted parents Mr. and Mrs. Barclay who have a
strong bind over her. Throughout The Wedding Gift, Kezia experiences an evolution which
helps her discover her strengths needed to break free from the servility that her parents
had made her so accustomed. Perhaps it is this, which leads Kezia to rebel, in the hopes
that she can be rid of her acquired shackles and move on with the life of which she had
so hoped for. Kezia is of the age of twenty-two and very headstrong in her ways. She
protests against her parents for arranging a union with Mr. Hathaway, but circumstances
of bad weather prevent their marriage, thus causing the matrimony between Mr. Mears and
herself to ensue. Since Kezia has lived in Nova Scotia for a long period of time she is
well equipped for the weather and dresses and acts accordingly. She has an excessive
amount of knowledge regarding survival which she uses to teach and better equip Mr. Mears
in lessons of life. As evidence of this, Kezia proves herself several times to be a
strong and willful woman. First, when she confronts the idea that a bear might be at the
door of the cabin in which Mr. Mears and her stay one long winter night. Kezia
immediately knows that it is not a bear, and casually assumes the strange nose to be a
caribou or moose. She goes to inspect without fear knowing there to be no danger, proving
herself to be more intellectual and practical then most women during the seventeenth
century, who would probably cower in the corner. Finally second, when she takes control
of her own life after deciding that she will be a slave to no man. Kezia throws away the
tinderbox as she becomes secure in being her own person as she decides how she wants to
live her life. Kazia gradually encounters the path necessary to lead her to the road of
freedom, which she had so long desired.