Kindness for most is something that is longed for. It is essential in the development of character in a person. In the play “Death of a Salesman” Biff Lowman tries to forge his destiny so that he can have some meaning in his life. However the lack of support he has from those around him is replaced by criticism and judgement even by his family. This leads readers to assume that a lack of kindness towards an individual may result the individual to lose confidence in themselves and allow others to
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Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem‚ "Ode to the West Wind" and Sylvia Plath’s poem "Mirror" both employ the poetic tools of apostrophe‚ the address to something that is intangible‚ and personification‚ the application of human characteristics to something inanimate. However‚ they form a paradox in the usage of these tools through the imagery they create. Both poets have breathed life into inanimate objects‚ however death and aging are the prominent themes within both of these works. In "Ode to the West
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Queen or Victim‚ the Duality of Female Authority and Oppression. Plath’s first poem in her venerable bee sequence‚ The Bee Meeting‚ offers fertile insight into the speaker of the poem’s struggle to adopt a voice in society and begs the ultimate question about women’s capacity to successfully break the chains of conformity. Plath’s multi-pronged approach addresses the poem’s persona’s confrontation with many social dichotomies. The most basic example of this duality is the fact that the speaker
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Sylvie Plath’s “Daddy” explores the power imbalance of gender relations and the negative effects of oppression on women in a male-dominated society. The speaker’s portrayal of the patriarchal system as her “daddy” describes the infinite power enforced through hegemony on women and how women are “chuffed up as Jews” into slavery‚ suppression and loss of self-identity. The use of child discourse with words like “achoo” and “gobbledygoo” portrays the speaker as having a child-like innocence which ironically
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natural to us humans‚ as does art to artists in most cases. In the selected passage (lines 42-51) of Sylvia Plath’s Lady Lazarus‚ Plath describes dying as something that comes natural to her‚ an artform she excels in‚ her calling. In the first two lines Plath states that dying is a form of art and clearly lets the reader know she has had more than one encounter with death. Earlier on in the poem Plath compares herself to a cat with nine lives to let the reader know that at this was written at the
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article‚ “Sylvia Plath’s Debt to Anne Sexton‚” one can argue for her claim on the striking comparison between Plath and Sexton. She set Plath an example by tackling private and deeply personal material in an outspoken and colloquial fashion in the first person. Plath later acknowledged the liberating influence that Sexton and Lowell had on her poetic development. The title sums up the article which states many things they have in common in their writing. One thing that is noticed is Plath may have
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During our last class session‚ while I was watching the video on random acts of kindness‚ it reminded me that performing random acts of kindness‚ is something that I need to incorporate more into my life on a regular basis. I actually had a warm and fuzzy feeling inside knowing that many people have done so many kind things to me. I too have done many kind things to others; but‚ I had still not decided to incorporate this small thing into my life. I immediately realized that life is about being
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Sylvia Plath’s semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar‚ demonstrates the startling effects of an oppressive patriarchal society on a bright and accomplished woman. Esther’s descent into madness can be attributed towards 1950’s America’s absurd expectations of women‚ the pressure women place on each other and the patronising attitude of the medical world. All throughout the novel‚ characters such as Esther’s own mother‚ Buddy Willard and Mrs. Willard all exist as manifestations of the suffocating
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Poetry Explication of Sylvia Plath’s “Mirror” The first thing one can notice in Sylvia Plath’s poem “Mirror” (rpt. In Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson‚ Perrine’s Literature: Structure‚ Sound‚ and Sense‚ 9th ed. [Boston: Wadsworth‚ 2006] 680) is that the speaker in the poem is the mirror and the woman in the poem is Sylvia Plath. As you read through the poem‚ the lake is relevant because of the famous mythological story of narcissus. He was extremely beautiful and one day while drinking from a lake
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of Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” In the 1950s‚ a new form of writing‚ called confessional‚ emerged that broke social norms by which the author would confess their innermost feelings‚ causing the reader to empathize with the narrator. In the pieces of literature published under this genre‚ authors wrote stories about personal feelings that were socially inappropriate to mention in public‚ many of which were autobiographical and some‚ fictional (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica). Sylvia Plath is
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