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Virginia Woolf was a famous writer who was diagnosed with bipolar I disorder. She wrote many essays and short stories including A Room of One’s Own, The Voyage Out, The Year, and Between the Acts. During her earlier years she suffered greatly from the depression side of her psychological disorder. Virginia had many traumatic experiences in her lifetime including being sexually harassed by her older half-brothers and the deaths of many of her family members. When her mother died in 1895 she was…

Did you know Hannah Senesh was executed for helping save Jews? I learned about her reasoning for joining the British Army, her being a poet and diarist and all the bodies of work she left behind inspiring many generations, and her legacy. To many people in Israel, Senesh is a symbol of idealism and self-sacrifice. Senesh was in her twenties when she joined the British Army. Stated in the Jewish Virtual Library, “The operations purpose was to contact the partisan resistance fighters and to help…

Mary Anne Bell is my favorite character because she redefines gender roles in the brute nature of the Vietnamese War. She portrays dynamic character development that is far more intense than all the other characters. The author, Tim O’Brien, uses Mary Anne Bell’s character to signify how war can manipulate people’s ideologies and expectations. Mary Anne Bell’s character is complex because it is difficult to analyze as to why she allows herself to fall susceptible to the war much quicker. The…

IRENA’S JARS OF SECRETS Irena’s Jars of Secrets by Marcia Vaughan tells the true story of a Polish social worker, Irena Sendler. She was raised to value the importance of helping others who needed assistance, and she saw a need in the Warsaw ghetto during the Holocaust. As a social worker, she was allowed access into the ghetto, and she was able to come up with clever ways to smuggle children out before they were sent to a death camp. She hid children under stretchers and floorboards in an…

The protagonist in The Bell Jar is Esther Greenwood. Esther is a young woman who loves to write, is strong on her beliefs, and struggles with the ups and downs of life. I believe Esther’s main motivation is to stay alive in order to experience the good parts of life. Although she struggles with depression and anxiety, she still dreams of a happy life. I admire her for many reasons. I believe she is extremely strong for continuing her fight against depression, she is ahead of her time when it…

Daddy and Lady Lazarus are poems written in 1963, by Sylvia Plath and were shortly released after her death. Sylvia Plath is a famous American poet born in October 27, 1932. Plath was really depressed since at the age of 10 after her Father's death. She tried to commit suicide multiple times and failed.Plath's famous Poems “Daddy” and “Lady Lazarus” are mainly influenced on her depression and her complex relationship with her Dad and her husband Ted Hughes. Ted hughes leaving Plath left her…

Sylvia Plath was an admired American poet during the 20th century, known for her confessional poems. Plath's poems had a common theme of morality and death. Plath excelled as a child and won many scholarships and contests, but faced difficulties in her home life after her father died. These difficulties affected Plath's mental state and her work greatly. In Plath's poem, “Daddy”, readers can see how her relationship with her father and other life experiences influenced the topics and themes of…

After undergoing, a painful seven years of apprenticeship, living in Brookyln, she often visited her mother Anita Desai in New York or travelled with her. Her debut novel Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard is no less ingenious in its treatment of identity and subjectivity. It is based on myth-making and mythical systems. Kiran Desai's literary creations are endowed with multicultural themes in which hopes and aspirations of both men and women in a globalised society are presented to…

Throughout Christina Rossetti’s life she experienced numerous periods in which she questioned her religion. Due to this, her poetry highlights the varying levels of devotion as well as the doubts she had. She wrote Good Friday at the age of 32 during a period of skepticism whereas Shut Out and Uphill were both written when she was 26 (1856) and 28 (1858) respectively. Throughout her life she maintained a strong connection to the High-Anglican Church even through her anxious periods of…

In the memoir, The Polygamist’s Daughter, the author Anna LeBaron describes the horrifying events of her past. The book seems to be a kind of coping device for LeBaron as often she inserts her current thoughts on the many situations she talks about. This essay will prove that Anna Lebaron looks back at her past with bitterness as she recalls, realizing she wasn’t really blessed, older men approaching her, the harsh circumstances in Denver, running away from the cult, and, when she finally…