Sylvia Likens

how unhealthy relationships with a farther and their children take a mental toll on the children weather they are beating them or just simply not putting effort and being loving towards their child, the damage is all the same. In the poem Daddy by Sylvia Plath, has a negative contradicting tone throughout the poem. The narrator is expressing how he/she but one would amuse…

Sylvia Plath , not being the only American writer, was considered to be the best dramatization writer. Her childhood was like everybody’s , a childhood full of books and a desire to touch the sky with their fingertips . Sylvia Plath’s works were phenomenal, which were based on her life.Sylvia Plath was a great writer that ended her life at a young age, but who is now honored as been the “patron saint of self-dramatization” and self pity. Sylvia Plath was born during the Great…

Sylvia Plath: Why She Wrote What She Wrote What is literature? Literature is around us everyday: it is the basics like reading and writing in school. It is the way that we think. Literature is exploring and putting our new experiences into our own life. Why study literature? Literature is a way of finding yourself, often times at your most vulnerable: your youth. What value does it have? Literature a way to know more about what’s going on around you, and also what you think on the inside. Most…

The Devil Wears Prada’s storyline revolves around the unlikely relationship that is eventually formed between Andrea ‘Andy’ Sachs, a dedicated journalism graduate who knows absolutely nothing about the fashion world, and Miranda Priestley, the cutthroat editor-in-chief of the fictional Runway magazine, whose entire life is surrendered to Jimmy Choos, Prada purses, crushed souls, and broken dreams. After having no luck in applying for any respectable newspaper in New York City, Andy receives the…

Aging Presented in Away from Her and Driving Miss Daisy Allison Riddle U20822752 The presentation of aging in film can be presented in a multitude of ways. Each presentation telling a story about a struggle that every person will face eventually, whether scared, worried or indifferent about this process. Two films that depict the aging process quite gracefully for the elderly, ailing characters are Away from Her (2006) and Driving Miss Daisy (1989). Both films show how the journey of…

Jay Asher’s novel, 13 Reasons Why, is a very suspenseful, heart wrenching story about a teenage girl named Hannah Baker, who in the end, sadly commits suicide. Hannah Baker helps explain her reasoning behind her choice to take her own life by narrating her story through old cassette tapes. She invents this plan to have the cassette tapes passed around after she dies to the people, who to Hannah, helped contribute to her pain and suffering. It is explained through those each 13 tapes how each…

Blood Wedding was written by Federico Garcia Lorca in 1932 and was first performed in 1933. Blood wedding was inspired by a story Lorca heard that came from Almería. There a bride ran away with her cousin. Her cousin was then murdered by the bridegroom’s brother. Given this inspiration Lorca went on to write a play that continues to be popular to this day. The play is full of various themes, themes that everyday people can connect to. It also contains climactic scenes like majority of good plays…

In the early-modernist novella, Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton, a series of themes are displayed, one of such being that of intolerance. In the contemporary vernacular, the definition of intolerance is regularly associated with discrimination or prejudice. Ethan Frome, the namesake of the novella, has been facing a serious dilemma for over a year, whilst his wife, Zeena Frome is slowly dying of illness and his true love, Mattie Silver, is on the verge of leaving him forever. These three…

Born on October 27, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts, Sylvia Plath would later be recognized as one of the greatest poets and novelists of the post-war era. Plath was raised in an academically focused environment; her father was a biology professor and her mother was a shorthand teacher. Contrary to the writing style of the time, Plath wrote about genuine emotions experienced by women. Additionally, she wrote about personal life events and the people that surrounded her. The poem, Point Shirley,…

diverse perspectives about conflicts that lend themselves to concern in societal issues; this method is typically successful because it allows audiences to connect with the piece of literature and apply it to their own lives and personal experiences. Sylvia Plath is one particular author that uses her particular experiences to write about issues that are very evident within society and very applicable to various audiences. Plath’s famous novel, The Bell Jar, is an appropriate example of using…