Sylvia Likens

troubled Plath The family life of Sylvia Plath from childhood to adulthood has a huge impact on the author during her years in writing poetry, including “Daddy” and “Lady Lazarus”. The author uses vivid imagery and depressing verbiage to make the reader wonder what kind of life difficulties did the author endure to place the characters in a place that was full of pain and suffering. This paper will examine the influences that played a part on the work of Sylvia Plath such as personality,…

In Sylvia Plath 's autobiographical novel The Bell Jar, the text takes the reader through the struggles of a young woman Esther, Sylvia Plath’s alter ego, who faces unruly patriarchal oppression which limits her ability to succeed within her community. This drives Esther to attempt suicide in a multitude of ways. Esther is aware of a female 's oppression within the 1950’s and relates imbalance between men and women to the battle between nature and technology. Esther is subject to patriarchal…

This line speaks the most to me because the speaker still loves his father after the abuse, and purposely or not the memory of his father beating him are replaced with the waltz. In “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath, the speaker describes her rough relationship with her father and how it negatively affects her relationship with her husband, ending in her killing them both. The speaker sees her father every time she sees a German, “I thought every German…

In the novel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak the theme words are powerful is illuminated through many different style’s of writing. Writing style is what makes an author’s piece of literature unique. This book follows girl name Liesel who’s life story is being narrated through death during her time of despair. Zusak uses the theme words are powerful to illuminate irony, object symbolism, and allegory as a style of writing. An element of style is irony,the expression of one's meaning by using…

Pretty Little Liars is a television show based on a popular book series about group of five friends named Alison, Hanna, Aria, Emily, and Spencer. The girls began to separate after the leader of the group, Alison, went missing one summer.. They began to get threatening messages from an anonymous source a year after her disappearance. The person sending the messages went by the alias “A”. “A” threatened to expose their secrets and blackmailed them to get what she wanted. Some of the secrets were…

Idea: Grief is soul destroying Poems: Sylvia Plath's Mirror and W. H Auden's Stop all the Clocks Although the poems 'Mirror' by Sylvia Plath and 'Stop all the Clocks' by W. H Auden reflect different experiences of grief, they both convey that its repercussions are devastating. Plath's extended metaphor focuses on the pain of aging, whereas Auden's elegy explores the grief of the physical loss of a loved one. The idea of overwhelming grief is evident in the beginning stanza of Stop all the…

Media Review Three In his article, Jason Diamond shares one of Flannery O’Connor’s prayers, which she wrote during her stay at the University of Iowa anywhere between 1946-1947 when she experiences doubt in her writing capabilities (Diamond 3). In these prayers, Diamond says that O’Connor “wrote her thoughts and prayers, displaying the same kind of self-doubt we see in so many writers today, but balanced with an unwavering faith…” (Diamond 3). Although Diamond agrees that O’Connor’s works seem…

Sally is a woman who attends a college for taking night courses and to keep her busy. Also, she is a woman who thinks her husband, Ed is dull and stupid. However, as story goes by, she finds out an affair between Ed and her friend, Marylynn during the party. She witnessed Ed touches Marylynn's butt, and she realizes Ed is not the man she used to think. In addition, "Bluebeard's Egg" is somewhat similar to Fitcher's Bird. For example, Sally is the third wife of Ed, and she thinks she is clever.…

Suicide deaths have reached many families all over the world with clusters of people trying to put a end to this depressed topic. The subject of death and suicide is very touchy and Lauren Oliver goes about it the right and informing way in her book Before I Fall . Oliver spoke out about her style of writing saying that “I believe in thinking about audience reaction as composing” -Lauren Oliver (Anonymous 11). She wants the readers to know this when writing this book to show her dedication and…

Delia is a young girl in a mystery. She is killed by the gambler; Many singers composes songs for some further meaning to show the social condition of that time. The three songs are “Delia” composed by Bob Dylan in 1993, Little Delia composed by Blind Willie McTell in 1932, and “Delia’s Gone” composed by Johnny Cash in 1962. This essay will discuss the similar and different characteristics of Delia among the three songs: “Delia”, “Little Delia”, “Delia’s Gone”. The first difference is that…