The Bell Jar Literary Analysis

Despite the ideology of her time, Gilman never resisted expressing her thoughts and feelings through her writing. By the early twentieth century, she had become an extremely influential women’s rights advocate, and author. Contrary to her doctor’s orders, she decided to reflect on her horrible experiences in her short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper” (U.S. National Library of Medicine). At first, Gilman tried to have her story published in The Atlantic Monthly, but the editor declined because the story made him “miserable” (Straub 1). After being rejected, The New England Magazine agreed to publish Gilman’s story.

She later attended Radcliffe College in 1951 and Columbia University in 1952. (http://www.britannica.com/biography/Ursula-K-Le-Guin). With her many talents in writing and the influence of her parents, Le Guin became an aspiring role model for many authors of today with her

Zora Neale Hurston: an amazing author Zora Neale Hurston, grew up in Eatonville, on the United States, and she was born in Notasulga, Alabama, at the age of thirteen her father remarried, she had eight siblings, including her, Zora Neale Hurston is a really admired author due to her amazing poems and short stories, also her applicable themes, and impact on society. First of all, the third short story Hurston published, “spunk”, this story is about a confident man that steals a weaker man’s wife, and the husband gets revenge after death, this story has five parts, a third person point of view, the “spunk” symbolism is about being strong, and if you want something or in this case someone fight for it no matter what you need to do, in

As a self-professed lover of words, Espaillat wrote her poetry in both English and her native language, Spanish. Her family was deeply proud of their Hispanic culture and heritage, never regarding it as lesser than the culture that now surrounded them in the United States. However, Espaillat did excel in learning and loving the nuances of the English language. She became well known in Manhattan as a poet and even achieved a kind of stardom, but this was short lived. It wasn’t until later in life, after attending college, being married, creating a family, becoming a school teacher, and nearly forty years of poetic dormancy, that Espaillat returned to her writings.

She does this in order to make them a more interesting read. Angelou was challenged by her publisher to turn an autobiography into fiction, and thus she began writing her life with literary elements put into it (Walker 77). She recreates herself in childhood form in order to “reclaim the horror of childhood sexual abuse from statistical anonymity” (Henke 243). Angelou uses repetition and mirroring in Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry like Christmas to show similarities in her young life to her adult life, such as leaving her son with her mother like her own mother did to her. She also uses capitalization to show importance.

Persepolis is a graphic novel that follows the true account of a young Marjane Satrapi, as she comes of age during one of history 's most dramatic times, the Iranian Revolution. In my opinion however, the beauty of this literary work lies in the way that Marji brings normalcy into her messed up experiences during wartime. The way that the author relates her experiences to the reader is unlike anything I’ve ever read before, and the reader can’t help but laugh and cry with her along the way. In the chapter called “Kim Wilde”, Marji’s parents finally got passports when the border opened up after years of being shut down during the revolution.

Emma and Elizabeth are special among other heroines as Emma is able to examine her own state of thinking of being in love to the realization she is not, and Elizabeth shows her own introspection in the process of thinking and re-thinking. Another important feature of Austen’s novels is heroine’s learning experience as a centre of the novel. From the studied literature, it follows that the learning experience leads to the problematic of ‘self’ which Austen’s fallible heroines deal throughout the novels. Jane Austen tried to explore mainly the fields of self-realization and self-knowledge, which means Emma and Elizabeth must overcome their mistakes to find what is right and only then they can reach the ‘self’ development. The first part of the thesis also showed the critical view on the heroines.

The Bell Jar is the only novel written by the American writer and poet Sylvia Plath. Originally published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" in 1963, the novel is semi-autobiographical, with the names of places and people changed. The book is often regarded as a roman à clef since the protagonist 's descent into mental illness parallels Plath 's own experiences with what may have been clinical depression. Plath committed suicide a month after its first UK publication. The novel was published under Plath 's name for the first time in 1967.

Nettie encounters her on a voyage to England and amidst many a dinner, Doris shares her story. “She was born to great wealth… she wanted to write books… her family was against it… [and] hoped she would marry” (pg 235). Doris became a missionary to get away and write under the pen name Jared Hunt, through which she amassed a large fortune and came to own the village of Akwee. Doris’s character represents how misogyny didn’t just exist for colored women, but all women. Writing under a masculine pen name, having to leave her family to enjoy a life of freedom and happiness, Doris Baines found the power to escape what would have been a constructed lifestyle, providing Celie with another role model to inspire her to do the

“Critical Essay on Doctor Zhivago.” Novels for Students, Thomson Gale, 2008, pp. 18-20. Joyce Hart is a freelance writer and published author who has received numerous print offers over the course of her career. In the aforementioned essay, Hart examines the possible reasons as to why Pasternak’s protagonist, Yuri Zhivago, finds such difficulty in maintaining lasting relationships with the women in his life. In her essay, Hart argues that the political struggles of the novel foreshadow the developing tensions throughout the narrative.