The Bell

Plath’s The Bell Jar, Esther Greenwood spirals into a state of detachment, at first unintentionally, but then purposely. By being unaware of this emotional turmoil, Esther digs herself into a hole of deep-rooted depression and mental…

Bell Hooks is one of the most well-known feminist figures of today, having written many books on feminism including Feminist Theory From Margin to Center and Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics. She is also a well-known academic who has taught at Yale University, Oberlin College, The City College of New York, and is currently a professor at Berea College in Kentucky (Net Industries). In 2013, Hooks wrote an article for a blog called The Feminist Wire called “Dig Deep: Beyond Lean In”…

In her semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, Plath used figurative language to eloquently describe depression.“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig…

In ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ and ‘The Bell Jar’ emotional distress is exemplified through tears and exclamations over liquid. Within both literary texts the authors utilises liquid in relation to emotional exclamations in regard to personal self-awareness. Blanche DuBois, throughout the play, is intensely worried about her appearance and self-perception. This often manifest itself as a fear of bright and harsh light. However, Blanche also relies on liquid during her moments of self-awareness:…

Analyzing Figurative Language “The Bells” is a poem that was written by Edgar Allen Poe and was not published until after his death. The tone of this poem goes from happy and joyous to fear and death. Several elements are used throughout this poem such as assonances, personifications, and onomatopoeias. Assonances is the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible. In “The Bells,” there are several…

The nature of Grove City College v. Bell does not necessarily revolve around a specific instance of sexual discrimination or unequal treatment, but to the extent of Title IX’s coverage. Established by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare In 1972, the latter wording of Title IX, “under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance”, is at interpretation in this case. (Grove City College v. Bell, 1984) History of this case dates back to 1979, when the HEW sent…

In Bell Hook’s article, Representing Whiteness in the Black Imagination, she further discusses how exploring whiteness through the lens of the ‘black imagination’ can help stimulate the thought of how whiteness really…

the Bell Tolls written by Ernest Hemingway has some major recurring themes such as women’s roles in war and how important those roles were. For example, the characters Maria and Pilar and their roles in the book and how they give the book depth. The role of women in this novel is something you cannot avoid noticing. The book For Whom the Bell Tolls is a story of a passionate love between Maria and Robert that takes place throughout the time of the Spanish Civil War. The book For Whom the Bell…

growth as the novel progresses. This kind of novel is usually centered on a child protagonist like in The House on Mango Street or The Bluest Eyes. A Katherine Bell puts it in her dissertation; the bildungsroman is “often referred to as a novel of education” and began in the seventeenth century “as a literary offshoot of educational theory” (Bell 1). The bildungsroman tells a story of coming of age and dives into the morality of childhood, as well as how a character reaches adulthood. It is…

Sadie Frowne was a young girl who immigrated with her Polish parents to New York City. She left with her mother, and planned to stay with her Aunt. Sadie as soon as she arrived in New York needed a job to assist her family, and she seized a job as a live in domestic servant. She made 9 dollars a month with board and lodging. Her family was doing well until her mother passed away on a few months later, and Sadie spent all of her money on her mother’s funeral. She needed a new job now that her…