Therefor he must never loose his tight grip on himself, constantly checking himself for little scrapes or nicks. Because of his disease, he can easily get wounded without being aware of it. This numbness alone does plenty to shape his psyche, but of even more importance is the scorn the disease brings him from his fellow human beings, who seem to implicitly blame him for contracting a disease that has since ages been associated with sin.Ĭovenant is grim and cynical. As a consequence, Covenant can no longer feel parts of his body, not even pain. Covenant suffers from leprosy, a disease that destroys nerves. The titular and arguably most interesting character in this series is Thomas Covenant. He will write at length about what the character is thinking, how his or her entire life’s experiences up to that point relates to the character’s current situation, and how his or her next actions are motivated by these thoughts.
On the other hand, he is quite gifted in making the reader connect to the rich inner life of his main characters. He tends to use complicated words where simple ones will do, and sometimes will go off on a philosophical tangent before returning to the story. One thing to note is that Stevenson’s writing is very dense.
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