Emily proved to be a bright and conscientious student, as a young child. She demonstrated a sharp intelligence, and was able to create many original writings of rhyming stories, entertaining her fellow classmates. Emily’s father was strict and keen to bring up his children in the proper way. Emily said of her father. “his heart was pure and terrible”.
Irony in Sense and Sensibility Austen uses irony as a means of moral and social satire. Her sentences, while usually simple and direct, contain within them the basic contradictions which reveal profound insights into character and theme. This is most obvious in her blunt character sketches. John Dashwood "was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather coldhearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed." Note that in the first half of the sentence, she seems to be viewing his character amiably.
Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath is well known for writing off of life experiences. Many of her poems were written in away so that something related to her. Themes used throughout her poetry had a lot to do with women's place in American culture which she would somehow relate to her life. Some of her poems include “Daddy”, “The Dead”, April 18” and “The Bell Jar.” In 1982, Sylvia Plath won the Pulitzer Prize in the poetry category for The Collected Poems. Plath also won a few other awards and prizes such as a scholarship for Cambridge University, first place in the Boston Globe contest, top prize in Atlantic Monthly Scholastic contest, and first place in the Mademoiselle Fiction Contest.
The purpose of the essay “I Want a Wife,” is to describe the many stereotypes women can be classified as in our everyday world. One literary element being used in the essay that I have identified would be the use of the writers plot creation. The writer did significant work using her own experiences and imaginary situation in order to engage the reader. She used Humor in order to demonstrate her hypothetical point of view. It is my opinion the writer used this element well, as it grabbed my attention and made it a fun and interesting reading.
Dale Disney Professor Pucciarelli English Composition: Section 64 21 September 2011 FICTION OR DESCRIPTION There are various techniques to write and share stories. Which technique is best to use seems to be subjective. In both Joan Didion’s essay “On Keeping a Notebook” and Patricia Hampl’s essay “The Dark Art of Description” illustrates this fact clearly. While Joan Didion uses rhetorical questions, personal anecdotes, and imaginary facts to record her life experiences, Patricia Hampl uses imagery and vignettes in her writings, but based on the fact that Patricia Hampl uses less falsehoods in her stories, her style of writing is more appealing to the reader. Joan Didion uses rhetorical questions in her notebook to engage readers into the story of her notebook writings.
As Isadora grew up her passion for music, poetry, dance and theater grew as well. Her mother once told her that she has to listen with her soul in order to understand a song completely. Many people now say that this is what inspired her to begin modern dance. When Isadora discovered the art of music she decided to start dancing. She loved dancing so much that she began teaching dance classes to the local children.
Biography of Kate Chopin Kate Chopin was a famous author during the late eighteen hundreds publishing many famous short stories and novels such as The Awakening and Bayou Folks. She has often been referred to as “a pioneer in the amoral treatment of sexuality, of divorce, and of woman’s urge for an existential authenticity” (Seyersted 1). She led the way for feminism and was praised after her death once her style of writing became more accepted. Chopin wrote about the passion that other authors during her time would not dare to speak of. Her life greatly influenced literature today and the censorship that follows.
Despite communicating only sporadically between 1959 and Plath's suicide, both women were definitively influenced by their brief friendship, showing in their respective works. I think personal feelings about things like death, trauma, suicide and relationships began to be dealt with in poems would be very difficult to write about. It really made me think as I read the poems the two women had written and to know how they both choice to end their lives. I know that my life is not perfect, and I get upset with others from time to time but I also know that God only give me as much as I can handle at a
Esther struggles with herself between uncertainty and unreality with all that is going around her. Esther’s struggle is revealed in the following statement: “I felt very still and very empty, the way the... dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullaballoo.” Esther feels as if she has been separated from everything going on in New York City. Her sense of emptiness has caused her to lose her sense of who she is. In reality, Esther Greenwood is really Sylvia Plath, whom this book is autobiographical to, on which the events are very similar to Sylvia’s life. This same event has occurred in Sylvia’s life, in the exact same order.
Wilson 1 Megan Wilson Professor Beal English 102 October 4, 2011 A Study on Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: and How Her Life Reflects on the Short Story “Clothes” The very talented author and poet, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni wrote a collection of short stories called Arranged Marriage. This is just one of her many award winning works. Although, in the beginning she was not seeking to become a writer, she came here from India to get an education and stayed. She still finds herself torn between two cultures and Chitra says, “In my writing it comes up many times because I’m aware of other people whose entry into America was even more diasporic than mine. And I write about them too; their stories are important to me.” (qtd in Seschachari).