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    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…

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    Sherlock Holmes is a detective hero of all times, a fictional character who is more famous than his creator Arthur Conan Doyle. The Scottish author Doyle wrote one of his well-known novel “The Sing of Four starring” the unique and detailed character Sherlock Holmes. Although Doyle has never been a colonist nor his character Holmes, the novel presents the idea of the British empire and its power along with the danger of colonized India and its people through Victorian perspective. I shall start…

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    3. The Psychological Outcomes of Women in the Bell Jar The Bell Jar is a story of a young woman struggling with her mental health. Many factors including social oppressions reveal in the novel led her into madness. Esther Greenwood the protagonist of the novel experienced breakdowns in her life which led her at many times to suicide. 3.1 .The Protagonist’s Madness and the Woman initiate mental Illness Sylvia Plath describes her long term depression that blocks her mind her scope of…

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    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…

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    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…

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    The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath

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    experiences as muses for her writings. In the novel The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath portrays mental illness and feminism through Esther. During the 1950’s in America, women were not educated and not expected to go to college. They were not prepared to support themselves and could rely on marriage and children as a predestined fate. Plath and Esther defied these stereotypical views when Plath attended Smith College and exceeded expectations(“Bell”). In The Bell Jar, Esther also pursues her writing…

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    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…

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    A Summer in New York City Before The Trapping of a Bell Jar Pain, Parties, Work by Elizabeth Winder gives an account of the summer in New York City that Sylvia Plath talks about in her novel, The Bell Jar. This novel captivates in great and vivid detail the enjoyment that Sylvia Plath has in the summer of 1953. However, while Pain, Parties, Work sheds light on the vivacious side of Sylvia Plath during that summer, it doesn’t match the life that Sylvia portrays in her own novel. Sylvia in New…

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    happiness to other people. I developed a love of travel at a young age when my church would go out of town helping other churches or going to different camps. I have been to many places such as Texas and Philadelphia, I have even seen the Liberty Bell, Arlington, and the Holocaust Museum. My love of History really inspires me to travel to historic places. I plan to eventually study abroad in Europe and…

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    Qualia In The Bell Jar

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    In philosophy, qualia is an individual's subjective internal emotional experience. Qualia refers to the aspects of human experience that may be perceived differently by others for a variety of reasons. Internal states may be described, although they differ from person to person. Qualia may include simple experiences such as the perception of color, texture of temperature. However, it may also be much more complex such as an individual's thoughts and experience relating to mental disorders,…

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