Craig Bandy AP English, 1b 01-11-13 Bartleby VS. A Sorrowful Woman Bartleby, the Scrivener, and A Sorrowful Woman reflect each other in a lot of ways. They have very similar themes and plots. The main theme from both stories is that untreated mental illness can lead to death, as we see at the end of both short stories. Both stories start with an epigraph. In a sorrowful woman is says “once upon a time there was a wife and mother one too many times” (Godwin 33).
Within Emily Dickinson’s life, many of her past friends and family past away around her on a regular basis, which could conclude to the reason why death is described as a usual and cherishable thing in ‘The last night that she lived.’ The second stanza reveals the intensity of the poet’s reaction to the death. The quote ‘We noticed the smallest things’ depicts the eeriness that is in the environment as death has caused everything to become still which makes the narrator notice the minor details. The quote also shows that after a death, people see the environment from a different perspective due to the emotions causing the smaller things to take emphasis. The third stanza discusses the poet's feelings about death. It portrays the poet's jealousy of the death Woman because she died peacefully while others has to live and face the ordeals of life.
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
Yet, they simultaneously lent her the ability to soldier on through a difficult life. The combination of all who she loved, her illnesses, her tragedies and her heartbreaks, shaped Ellen’s mindset and personality, while altering the course of her life for better and for worst. Ellen Weatherall’s romantic life was marked by abandonment; her fiancé left her at the altar and her husband died young. It is significant to note that these early abandonments seemed to have left her unwilling to remarry. Also, she faced life-threatening illnesses which likely left her near-death more than once.
MS leads to death as much as confinement leads to the demise of the moth. These both say something remarkable, they are both trapped. Even though the life-span is different by many years, yet they both want the same thing; to be let out, to be free. Except being trapped is the only way to cope, Multiple Sclerosis leads to anger and depression as they are living out their life, while the moth is fighting frantically to get the last shred of its life and make it worthwhile. Mairs and Woolf have two very different views on what plentiful a life could
Placid Pond Lawrence doesn’t just come out with his theme in the short story “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter.” It is hidden deep within the story and is brought out through symbols in the story. If one can be able to point out the symbols of the story, one can have a better understanding of the story and theme. I found that the theme was that death brings about new understanding, and change which leads to the rebirth of two people’s lives. Of the many symbols Lawrence uses, the first one he mentions would be the churchyard and the graves, Mabel’s mothers specifically. Mabel is a depressed and suicidal woman; after her mother died she feels as though she has nothing else to live for.
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall,” a short story by Katherine Anne Porter, describes the last thoughts, feelings, and memories of an elderly woman. As Granny Weatherall’s life is fading she sees her life before her eyes and the title all of a sudden makes more sense. She is filled with disappointment due to relationships in her life. She has failed with everything and everyone in her life. She is filled with fear in her last moments, all alone.
For example the story begins with death of Emily and then we see Emily’s dad death and then she kills Barron to make sure that he never leaves her. We also see that as Emily is grows old so does her house and the town. The story is written in a non-chronological order. The organization of the story resembles the disorganization of Emily’s life. Completely out of order although many would find this order rather confusing, it helped in adding mystery suspense and climax to the story.
A Blossoming Chrysanthemum Life altering events often lead to changes in a person. A sudden death could trigger some inner reflection, leading to realization. In the short story “Ordour of Chrysanthemums” Elizabeth Bates, the story’s protagonist, embarks on a journey of internal conflict, blame, and finally self-awareness. Lawrence portrays the complexities of Elizabeth through carefully worded dialog, showing the reader at first an impatient mother and an unaffectionate spouse. Only when death finally rears its ugly face, a feeling of warmth trickles to the surface.
The journey she takes is her remembering the first time she knew she was dead. Jean Rhys recurring theme of death can be referred to as a motif. Jean Rhys makes creative use of each of these elements in illustrating the speaker’s efforts to identify with her past life, an important motif in “Used to Live Here Once” (Clugston, 2010). Jean Rhys’s work is a reflection of her pain and her battles with the world. A writer of Tremendous originality and wit, she explores her melancholy subjects with heartbreaking grace (Castro, 2000).