Jar

In the chapter Peeing in Jars with Boys (page 124) she discovers the male tradition of peeing in jars and leaving them strewn around the writer’s offices at SNL. She uses this example as a way to marginalize the difference between women and men comedy writers and comics. At one point, she questions if this was a test by the urinators; if you see the jar and ignore it, you are accepted. She dispels this theory saying “…they didn’t really give a fuck whether you came in the room or not” (Fey, 125)…

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath follows the mind of Esther Greenwood, a bright young woman with academic promise and ambition. Esther’s ambition is much too excessive to suit a woman in her society because she dreams beyond the expected life of a woman, which is limited to the docile life of a wife and mother. Esther builds a sense of alienation and craze deriving from the expectations placed upon her in the American popular culture surroundings because of social expectations, her self-critical…

The name of the piece that I find interesting in the Ancient Egyptian is Canopic Jar with a Lid in the Shape of a Royal Woman's Head. The date of the is particular piece is was made around short thereafter ca. 1345-1336 B.C. The medium it was made of is Travertine (Egyptian alabaster), blue glass, obsidian, unidentified stone. The piece is a creamy coffee color jar with a top that has a head of a woman's head. The woman's heads was once painted but over time you can see it start to fade away.…

“Shoot the Damn Dog” is written by Sally Brampton, a successful magazine editor and prize-winning journalist; who would have thought that behind a very successful and glamorous career, as the editor of Elle and then of Red, was a story that many (of her friends and colleagues) knew nothing about “Depression”. She struggled with ongoing, severe depression and alcoholism. It was the hardest thing for her as she described the struggle in her book “I found that a steady stream of alcohol together…

drienne Rich (1929-2012) was by many regarded as the voice of her generation. Her work was often political, and her poetry explored themes such as change, feminism and sex. In the earlier years, having a family, she often wrote her poems in between chores. Perhaps it was her traditional lifestyle gave her work a “neat and orderly” (Rich, as cited in Mays 912) tint. “Aunt Jennifer's tigers” was published at the mere age of 21. As times changed, so did her poetry, growing more social and political…

ENGLISH ASSIGNMENT 4 ANALYTICAL ESSAY ”Everything she had dreamed for herself faded away, like fine mist on a breeze”. This strong quote incapsulates the feeling of a failed dream, though in its original context, the quote also tells a story of 1970’s America and society’s gender roles. The quote comes from Celeste Ng’s 2014 novel ‘Everything I never told you’, which deals with the suicide of a mixed-race child. However, this is hardly the story that Celeste is trying to tell with her novel,…

.2. Sylvia Plath and Esther Greenwood The novel is the story of a young woman struggling with her mental health. As such, it is a complex account of schizophrenic psychosis in a young woman (Garrido,1). The Bell Jar does not follow the usual trajectory of the Bildungs roman. The protagonist is nineteen-year-old Esther Greenwood. Instead of passing the usual developmental milestones leading to adulthood, young Esther regresses into madness. Being a student at renowned Smith College, she…

Jar of Hearts is a beautifully crafted song written by the very talented, Christina Perri. It is filled with detailed and meaningful lyrics throughout the entire song. It refers to heartbreak, hurt feelings, and a lost love that many people can connect and relate to. She uses many literary devices and her lyrics tell an amazing story throughout the song that will make you want to hit replay. “Don’t you know I’m not your ghost anymore” is one of the first lyrics of the song and also…

The Bell Jar exemplifies how violence is almost an inevitable consequence of any sexual relationships between men and women in a patriarchal society where men hold the puppet strings and dangle them in their favor. While it's considered natural for men to have sexual desires and to indulge these desires outside marriage, women are expected to remain chaste until they marry, and when they do marry, sex is all about having babies – it has nothing to do with romance or intimacy. Concern towards…

Mariah Inghram ENG 3060J Katherine Berta September 20, 2016 Reader’s Response Two In Sylvia Plath’s novel, The Bell Jar, Plath examines the conventional role of American women during the 1950s through the perspective of the story’s main character, Esther Greenwood. Esther is the epitome of an unconventional American woman during the 1950s; thus she cannot identify with the pressures of conventional expectations of women during this time (Plath). Esther’s lack of identity to women of this time…