The Bad Place

The Representation of the Bell Jar As long as suffering exists, so too does the search for its explanation. The human urge to romanticize pain explains this pursuit, but mental illness is unfortunately unyielding to simple justifications. In Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar,” protagonist Esther Greenwood struggles with her mental illness in many ways, most of all in finding the strength to understand it. While wrestling with her separation from the world, she explores the ways in which to represent…

The explanation of suffering has been long sought, composing itself as an almost futile yearning to understand a pain that has no answer. This search can be linked to the human condition to romanticize the unsightly in order to make it an ideal, but mental illness is unfortunately unyielding to easy explanations. In Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar,” protagonist Esther Greenwood struggles with her mental illness in many ways, most of all in finding the strength to understand it. While wrestling with…

Change Is Not Always Bad As I sat in my room and reminisced over the change that happened in my life, a smile crossed my face. My smile was not because I like change, but it represented me overcoming the fear that gripped me every time change occurred. Many times in life I began to love or hate certain factors that life handed me depending on how I went through my first experience of that situations. Change is one of those factors I hated because when I first encountered it, I was young and…

had, forces them to do other things to recover their money whether bad or good. If they put everything on the line and gamble for too long, this may end up backfiring with their whole legacy being destroyed in addition to breaking all the relationships and progress they have made. While not to many of these examples are seen in real life, this is the basis of the plot twisting and actions packed television series called Breaking Bad, where a caring high school teacher turns into…

only one thing”. So a singular experience should be something that happens once. There are so many things that happen repeatedly but when a unique devastating event happens you only expect it once. But sometimes it doesn’t work like that, sometimes bad things happen twice. It was like any other Monday, October 18th. The wind whistled outside and the colorful leaves covered the ground like a blanket. I went into school and made my way through the old building climbing the small set of stairs…

Breaking Bad is a big complicated television show full of incredibly realized fictional personalities. Over the course of the show we learn about the people in it, and get to know how they think and feel on a deeper level. Jesse Pinkman is one such character. First introduced to us as a scumbag drug dealer, Jesse becomes one of the main characters of the show. While at first all Jesse is to the viewers is Walt’s door into the meth business, we see over time that Jesse is just a lonely guy…

to him and told him lovingly that she was his Aunt Alexandra and that mommy had to go somewhere but not to worry because she would be back soon. She then picked up the child and sat down with him on her lap where he asked her if Evan had gotten the bad man yet? Just then, Cera arrived back with a potion she’d concocted with rosemary oil, Henbane, Mandrake root, and several other ingredients. “Oh, great,” she huffed. “Way to wake up the kid, you yahoos,” she chided while looking directly…

Breaking Bad is an AMC American crime drama television show created and produced by director Vince Gilligan. The show follows 50-year-old protagonist Walter White, a miserable, overqualified high school chemistry teacher, along with his wife, Skyler, their 15-year-old disabled son, Walter Jr, and an unexpected baby on the way. The White’s are first introduced to the viewers as a classic American, middle class family who appear to be struggling financially. In the very first episode, Walt is…

way she could at this moment was to think of someone else’s words of wisdom. “The whisper of solemn finality, the mention of death of a loved one is a deep moment of regret that takes control and squeezes you till the tiny drops of remorse have no place to hide. It is that moment of reflection when you may look back and think about what you should have done instead of what you did. If so then one of the strange joys of life is to have the soul of a poet and be able to reach out and feel the…

free-will allows them to decide how they will respond to sin. Some people tend to respond with guilt and regret, while others have no sign of remorse on their face. Vince Gilligan, an American producer and director, created the drama series Breaking Bad. His television show expresses the idea of sin by exposing the follies of mankind and the detrimental effects of sin through Walter and Jesse. Utilizing plot, Gilligan conveys, through these characters, the power of how an individual’s response…