SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath and Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger

Essays 61 - 90

Sylvia Plath's Life and Poetry

the gods high-heeled walking wounded" (pp. 239). She was born in Boston, the daughter of a university professor and one of his gra...

Expression and Individual Freedom in Literature

This 3 page paper gives an example of how individual expression and freedom is shown in a few works of literature. This paper incl...

Teen Alienation in Catcher in the Rye

delivered, uncompleted phone calls, overtures not taken up, appeals repulsed. William Faulkner, who praised the novel, said that w...

American Literature and Major Common Themes

shaped by trying to achieve the American dream, but by experiencing what occurs when others achieve and pass on the values of weal...

Depression in Teens

depression from time to time (Types and Causes of Depression). Another type of depression is bipolar disorder, which is also refe...

Henry James' Daisy Miller and J.D. Salinger's Holden Caulfield as Social Outcasts

In seven pages this paper examines how social outcasts can take different forms in a comparative analysis of Daisy Miller and Catc...

J.D. Salinger, Mark Twain, and Society

In 7 pages this paper examines how the young protagonists of Catcher in the Rye and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are at war ...

Sexuality and Prostitution in the novel, Catcher in the Rye

This paper examines issues of sexuality in the novel, Catcher in the Rye. The author focuses on the spiritual and social beliefs ...

Characters and Plot from Miller, O'Connor and Plath

audience must be moved by Willy Loman, a 63-year-old man who has become tired of chasing the ever-elusive American Dream, always f...

Explication of 'Mirror' by Sylvia Plath

has watched as a young girl has matured and ultimately been replaced with an old woman, which the mirror looks upon as the passing...

Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, and Crisis in Poetry

In six pages this paper examines how poetry can be used to express a poet's crisis in 'Lady Lazarus' by Sylvia Plath and 'My Life ...

Imagery in 'Mirror' by Sylvia Plath

the word, exact, which, when in reference to herself is in opposition to her general style of writing. She writes in symbolic lan...

Poems by Sylvia Plath and Emily Dickinson

In six pages this paper compares the influences and poetry styles of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath. Six sources are cited in t...

Feminist Perspectives in the Poetry of Plath and Rich

This paper examines the feminist perspective seen in the poems of Adrienne Rich and Sylvia Plath. This eleven page paper has twel...

Sylvia Plath and Toni Morrison on the Self Actualization of Women

This paper examines the self actualization of women in an analysis of the poems 'Daddy' and 'Mirror' by Sylvia Plath and the novel...

Confessional Poets and the 'Father Complex'

work, moreover, carries with it an element of purging oneself of the terrible things that must prowl in their memories and refuse ...

'Daddy' by Sylvia Plath

fixed entities but rather as "symbols that are embedded in the socialization and power dynamics of our culture" (127). Such image...

'Daddy' by Sylvia Plath

a foot For thirty years, poor and white, Barely daring to breathe or Achoo"(Plath...

Life and Works of Sylvia Plath

a sufferer from mental illness, which may have been triggered at least in part by her fathers death during her childhood....

Post-Industrial Society Concept of Daniel Bell A Critical Analysis

coming form services and only 17% form manufacturing (Bell, 1999). Post industrial society is not only changing in terms of the ...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

Coming of Age and Maturity in J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye and Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

as well, "Maya is permanently puzzled by the adult world. Her grandmother is extremely religious and strict, the children should b...

Universal Confusion and Evil in William Golding's Lord of the Flies and J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye

be credited to each authors belief in the universality of evil and disorder, an evil and disorder which often as not can be relate...

More to Poet Ted Hughes Than Being the Husband of Sylvia Plath

In ten pages this paper discusses the poetry of Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate of England until his 1998 death at age sixty eight. Six...

Protagonist Parallels Between Go Tell It on the Mountain and Catcher in the Rye

are not all that uncommon for an adolescent. In fact, many teens feel they are alone and while Holden experiences a deep sense of ...

A Discussion of Those that Attempted to Help Holden in The Catcher in the Rye

at the prep school. In the beginning of the novel we see that Holden admires this man to some degree. Just prior to leaving his pr...

The Color Purple and Catcher in the Rye Compared

allows Holden to be dismissive of material concerns. After running away to spend some time in New York City on his own, which is...

Innocence and Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye

Antolini, a man who is not innocent. In presenting this examination we will illustrate how Holden is innocent in the face of exper...

Meaning of 'Daddy' by Sylvia Plath

gangrenous toe that her father had to have amputated and which, later, led directly to his death (127). The image of the "Frisco s...