The Poem Daddy‚ by Sylvia Plath describes the author’s relationship and feelings towards her father that have also carried over into all of her relationships with men. In the poem her father is shown to be all powerful‚ Godlike and a “ghastly statue”. She describes her feelings that she must kill her father “Daddy I have to kill you”‚ but at age ten her father dies before she has the chance to do him in herself. Because of this her feelings towards him are left unresolved. These unresolved feelings
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the case for all people. Certainly‚ this is not the case for Esther Greenwood. Though a variety of factors cause Esther’s depression and suicidal spiral‚ one primary and deeply affective determinant is her familial relationships—and lack thereof. In Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar‚ Esther Greenwood’s inadequate‚ negative familial relationships cause the emotional underdevelopment that engenders her depreciating mental health; Esther’s emotional maturity‚ mental health‚ and personal growth improve only through
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one stanza (despite the fact the Blackberry-picking is noticeably longer). The lines in each poem do not follow a pattern in term of lengths which could be a representation of life’s unexpected ups and downs. On the other hand Blackberrying by Sylvia Plath is written in three stanzas unlike the other two poems‚ however‚ all three poems have a line which changes the tone of the overall poem whether it be to represent the early signs of death ‘But only so an hour’ or ‘The only thing to come now is
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myth of the reincarnating phoenix‚ (a mythical bird that burns alive and then reborn in the ashes). The next decade will be different for the speaker because she plans to "eat" the men‚ or doctors‚ so they cannot revive her next time she faces death. Plath describes a personal truth. She was ten when she tried it for the first time and the second time had meant to do it earnestly. But they pulled her back into
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A Cinderella Story The poem “Cinderella” by Sylvia Plath is a Shakespearean sonnet outlining a distressing moment for the tragic maiden Cinderella. This poem illustrates the impermanence of beauty and youth through contrast and images. All happiness‚ however satisfying‚ must eventually end‚ resulting in suffering and desperation. Love and youth‚ like all things‚ are impermanent and will eventually wilt. The speaker states‚ “Rose candles flicker on the lilac wall” (7)‚ using an onomatopoeia “flicker”
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Journal Themes of English Literature Ana Sofia Teixeira Moreira‚ 65216 13/12/2012 David Callahan Introduction This is a kind of work that I like very much to do because of help me to remember and memorize everything that I learned and help me to broaden my vocabulary. In this journal I’m going to do a brief analysis of everything that I learned in classes‚ poems‚ films‚ magazines‚ authors‚ books and other things. My objectives in this journal are not only get a good mark but also‚ as
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-Chaucer was basically involved in espionage and also fought in and was ransomed in a war. -Milton was blind when he wrote Paradise Lost. -John Bunyan spent more than 10 years in jail which is when he started writing Pilgrim’s Progress. -Daniel Defoe‚ first novelist (as we know them today)‚ invented modern journalism. -John Dryden‚ writer of great satire‚ was Jonathan Swift’s cousin. -I didn’t know Dickens was an actor (and accomplished at that)…I don’t really know much about him
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Conflict is the battle between what you feel and what you know‚ forcing you to create arguments in your mind‚ with others and with society. In Reconstructing Amelia self versus self is a big conflict in the aspects of suicide and decision-making‚ character versus character conflicts between friends and leaders‚ and lastly character versus society becomes a conflict of what is acceptable. Amelia is a fifteen-year-old girl who‚ throughout her telling her story before proclaimed “suicide” is offered
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The protagonists Clara and Aubergine of the The Prospectors by Karen Russell have a mutually beneficial relationship‚ but to a greater extent‚ one grounded in necessity. I will be linking this relationship to the archetypal relationship between an innocent maiden and an enabler. The innocent maiden is Clara and Aubergine is the enabler; throughout the story Aubergine entices Clara and pushes her to using her charm at parties. However‚ that is not to say that Aubergine did not need Clara. Clara and
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The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Archidamian War by Donald Kagan The Art of Fiction by Henry James The Art of War by Sun Tzu As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Atonement by Ian McEwan Autobiography
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