Sylvia Plath uses the lines 4-9 to compare herself to what they did. “A sort of walking miracle, my skin. / Bright as a Nazi lampshade, / My right foot / A paperweight, / My face a featureless, fine / Jew linen.” She compares her skin to one of their lampshades, and her foot to a paperweight. They reduced her to from a human to inanimate objects. These lines could also suggest that Sylvia Plath is upset with how misogynistic men objectify women. Comparing objectifying women to Nazis and the Holocaust, which were both perpetrated by men, brings out how cruel they can…
In selections into the wild by Krakauer he describes what is known to happen to Chris McCandless on hit trip to Alaska. Chris’s goal was to live for a period of time disconnected from everything. He never made it back and people were very critical about his trip. Chris journalized his trip and a year later Krakauer later traveled to where he died. Krakauer and his team discussed McCandless’s challenges. Krakauer went to Alaska to visit the bus, his team was critical of McCandless, and I agreed with them for the most part.…
Sometimes in literature authors display underlying themes or messages. This is shown in Night by ellie wiesel and his appalling experience. In this essay we will idetntify and elaborate on these instances exhibited throughout novel. One theme displayed by wiesel is hope. This is shown by Ellie himself,ellie always had hope that he might get saved, which contibuted to his survival.…
Question: We follow the stirred up emotions of the main character in a visual or oral text to chart struggle and change.…
There are often times when people tend to antagonize you just because of the color of your skin or your gender. In Zora Neale Hurston’s story, “Sweat”, there is a racial dispute to be argued as well as. The character, Delia was treated like a slave by her husband, Sykes. The color of a person’s skin often was a reflection on the was people were treated.…
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.” Dale Carnegie believed that perseverance could overcome even the harshest obstacles. Perseverance is inspired by a purpose, an unsatisfied drive to achieve a goal. During a cataclysmic event, only people with a purpose endure.…
Sylvia Plath, an extremely influential and beloved female poet who lived in the mid-20th century, was the author of numerous poems as well as the semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar. Her work, especially that of her adult life, heavily reflects the darkness and depression that she dealt with. Plath, born in October of 1932, began writing at a very young age. Her first published work, titled simply “Poem”, was published before she had even turned ten. Plath wrote many short stories during her early years, and she even won several writing competitions. One of these was a fiction contest that earned her a position as guest editor at Mademoiselle…
The poem was a single piece from the Ariel collection, and is the best known. It is about suicide, and reincarnation is a way of its own. In a bizarre way, it seems as though Plath is comparing death to a form of art, peaking a curious widespread in this poem. Some enthusiasts draw the conclusion that because the poem Lady Lazarus was written so close to Sylvia Plath's suicide, it was left as a foreshadowing poem (Raritan). Inevitably, with the angst from her failed marriage and the weight of the world suppressing her, Plath decided that she could bear the cruel world no more. On a dreary January morning in London, Sylvia Plath took her life. She gassed herself in her small, cold kitchen and ended her bittersweet life. Misery overcame every last bit of light in her world, and blew the candle out. Marty Ascher, publisher of the unabridged journals, supports that "When you die young like Dean or Monroe or Sylvia Plath, when your life ends in disaster, then you live on in legend, and you remain forever young." There is great debate between 'deciding' if Plath was indeed a feminist or not. Does she lead a role in the feminist movement today? Being honored in living through and between two of the greatest womens' right movements could sway Plath one way more than the other. Society had then split the decision of the debate. Some believe she is the face of feminism through literature, while others see no reason for her to be labeled a…
Steven Gould Axelrod is an expert in nineteenth and twentieth-century American poetry, and his book “Sylvia Plath: The Wound and the Cure of Words” was published in 1990. Sylvia Plath was an American poet, born in 1932, and died in 1963 when she committed suicide. I totally agreed with Steven Gould Axelrod’s idea in this book, especially when he said that the poem “Daddy,” Sylvia’s most famous poem – is dramatic and allegorical. At the beginning of the book, Axelrod mostly focused on Sylvia’s life and how “Daddy” was brought into the world, then in the middle of the book, he compared how Sylvia described her father in her two poets, “Daddy” and “The Colossus,” and at the end, he continued to compare the figure “I” in “Daddy” and “The Colossus,” Sylvia herself identity.…
Moreover, our textbook. Writing to change the world, contains lots of information about the meaning of being educated. The author, Mary Pipher, expressed a lot of about the changing agents and changing writers. In the book, Pipher explains that a successful writer could use their writing to the change others. Also, independent thinking is important for the changing writers, and they should always stand at most clearly side because people need them.…
In "The Obligation to Endure," Rachel Carson explains how man is destroying earth because of the advancements in science, along with the continuous use of numerous chemicals. During her essay, she points out to the reader that humans continue to use chemicals to produce our products since they like having the ability to manage the growth of the plants. Carson argues that the use of chemicals is damaging "poisoning" nature along with destroying our environment…
“You should never regret anything in life. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience” (Unknown, n.d.). This quote symbolizes how everything in life can be cherished and turned into an experience. The only way people learn is through experience, which makes life better and wonderful. In Elie Wiesel’s (2006) novel Night and the movie “Life is Beautiful” (2000), there are two completely different perspectives on life in the worst of times. Both the book and the movie show life during the Holocaust and how it has impacted father and son relationships. Each story shows how the fathers and sons are impacted through two different types of experiences spent in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. In the memoir Night and the…
When speaking about Sylvia Plath a word too often use is Tragedy, the tragedy that was her life and the pain that ended it. Plath is known for her cynical twisted writing, but never too far from the truthful pain no one dared to speak about. Plath was far more than just a sad woman who made it an art form. Plath was more than other women on the Ted Hughes list of accomplishments, she was a literary genius and was a face of a movement that 50 years later is still worthy of praise. Sylvia Plath should be known for not only her literary accomplishments but the voice she created for women too not only speak about the unspeakable but to be open about the serious nature of mental illness. Sylvia Plath’s suicide is said to have overshadowed…
Plath 's poetry is full of symbols and allusions cryptic to those unfamiliar with her biography, so it is necessary to begin any analysis of her work with a brief account of her life. Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932 near Boston and for much of her childhood lived near the sea, which finds its way into many of her poetic images (Barnard 14). Her father, Otto Emil Plath, was an immigrant from Germany and her mother, Aurelia Schober, a second generation Austrian American (Barnard 13). Allusions to her German heritage and to World War Two era Europe abound in her work.…
The Stories We Tell Ourselves Stories are fundamental to how we see; understand the world and essentially ourselves. We are the stories we tell ourselves. Or, as Thomas King puts it: “The truth about stories is that that’s all we are” (King 2). From stories of creationism to personal experiences, historical narratives, to social transgression, racist indoctrination to works of contemporary Native literature, a piece of who we are lurks in the details. This piece of us, of who we are has the potential to be both dangerous and at the same time wonderful.…