In lines 13-15, Lady Lazarus illustrates to us what she looks like, but her description of herself is very disturbing. She depicts herself as a sort of zombie with eye pits instead of eyeballs and sour breath that will strangely “vanish in a day”(15). Does she mean that her sour breath will disappear once she dies? Compared to the previous stanzas, lines 16 - 24 seems to make more sense in regards to what Lady Lazarus is telling us. Earlier, she seemed more vague and relied on metaphors and similes
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Period D English The Theme of “Identity” In The Bell Jar Humans’ lives are shaped by success and failure within their personal life, and their relationships with one another. This is expressed in The Bell Jar, a novel written by Sylvia Plath. Plath is concerned almost entirely with the education and maturation of the novel’s main character, Esther Greenwood. The Bell Jar uses a chronological structure to constantly keep Esther in focus. Though significant, the other characters are secondary to
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“It's not as bad as it sounds.” (Huckleberry Finn) Compare how the theme of outsiders is presented in Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, D.B.C Pierre’s Vernon God Little and Sylvia Plath’s Ariel. Throughout the history of literature, the idea of an outsider unable to find his place within society is explored frequently in all three texts. The theme of the outsiders is presented in all novels but separated due to the different time periods in which they were set, thus resulting in controversy and
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Jessica Sutherland English 1102 What Does Internal Mean to Eternal Man? The poem “Fever 103°”, written by Sylvia Plath, reveals competing satire and radical takes on the poem. A formal analysis and reader-response will explore the poems two meanings and how they are shaped and built within the work. The work in short is an expression of sex and sensuality versus safe guarding ones purity and oneself. As it opens with Cerberus
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1694 words Andrea Dworkin stated that “the feminine ideal by definition turns a woman into a function, deprives her of any individuality that is self-serving or self-created”. With reference to The Bell Jar, consider the view that Sylvia Plath would agree with all parts of this statement? The Bell Jar could be regarded as an archetypal feminist work in which women are presented as repressed and prevented from any possibility of becoming wholly autonomous beings, free from relationships with men
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In this poem, Sylvia Plath expresses a desire to be in control. She feels she has to deal with a dangerous situation. At first she is not in control. She panics. She has a debate with herself and then she makes a calm decision. Silvia Plath wrote this poem in seven five-line stanzas followed by a single line. On one level Plath is simply recalling a personal incident. The story of the poem concerns a task with a bee box. In the first stanza she states that it looks like ‘square’, like a midget’s
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Chronicles of IB It was my first day of IB English SL class. I always thought English was a subject where there was nothing to study. Throughout my time studying in the Indian Board, I considered English as one of the easiest subjects. But this was about to change. “Ms. Meredith Klein”, my professor’s name was written on the board with the class name “IB English Standard Level” under that with a bunch of other things written around it. As my teacher started describing the syllabus it was becoming
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In one of the most misunderstood autobiographical novels, The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath chronicles the mental breakdown and attempted suicide of a young fictional embodiment of Plath herself, Ester Greenwood. Ester and Plath’s lives were extremely similar: both had perfect grades throughout their school careers, attended Smith College on scholarships, wrote poetry, and pursued English degrees. Both women did a summer internship in New York City, where they both faced internal turmoil that led to their
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Ms. Dorothea Dix: Humanitarian, Reformer, and Educator It is often said one person can change the world and make all the difference. In the 19th century, Ms. Dorothea Dix was that one person. Dorothea Dix dreamed of being a school teacher, which was a goal she obtained. Later she moved on and became a social reformer for the mentally ill, and at the golden age of 59, Ms. Dorothea Dix volunteered her services and was appointed Superintendent of the Army Female Nursing Corps. During a time when women
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach – Anna Terese Aucoin In the passage from Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War, the author, Mary Roach, argues that those who develop and test military technologies and innovations are equally, if not more, deserving of recognition for their accomplishments as combatants and front-line fighters. She does so by first using a surprising example of a military “weapon,” the chicken gun, which is used to save lives, a feat accomplished thanks
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