Script Cast: Vincent Van Gogh, Pythagoras, Sylvia Plath Written By: Reyna Huff, Elena Ritter, and Kelsey Scott-Otis You see a lot of interesting things at an asylum, but would you ever expect to see the ghosts of three famous people. Not to mention, these crazy people were actually geniuses in their day. Pythagoras: (to himself) A squared plus B squared equals C squared… If the triangle is a right triangle…. The hypotenuse is C…. Sylvia: (to herself) Daddy, I have had to kill you. You
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“The phoenix must burn to emerge” describing the needed destruction of one’s self in order to build something new and better. When one reaches the edge of death it is said they are reborn with wisdom and speak of it as renewal. In Lady Lazarus Sylvia Plath demonstrates this feeling of renewal with lines like “Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well…,” displaying her feelings that suicide is easy enough to do, but it’s doing it “theatrically” is what makes it an art. This
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poem. The Minotaur was published in 1998, after the controversial suicide of Sylvia Plath in 1963, and much of the blame for her death was placed upon Hughes. Feminist supporters of Plath especially vilified Hughes and upheld Plath as a ‘martyr to a misogynistic husband’. Through The Minotaur, Hughes aims to shift the general public’s perspective of Plath from the ‘martyr’ to ‘monster’. Hughes does this by introducing Plath in the first stanza as a paranoid, irrational and violent woman, incapable
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with bad people feeling that I am also bad./ or be afraid of my [genitals] being/ exposed known and/ seen—”, but also confesses that she is “very lonely” and paints the narrative of an exploited figure in short verse [Source F]. As aforementioned, Plath also depicted her personal experienced in her books, as well as being at the forefront of the confessional poetry movement. Her poem “The Applicant”specifically examines the construct of marriage, gender stereotypes and social pressures, while poems
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its seriously or peaceful from the way the stories put it.In the the sources “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and “I am vertical” both somehow relate to death.Through “The Adventures of huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain and “I am vertical by Sylvia Plath, the works of A and B reveal that the concept of using syntax and diction is important because of the
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the protagonist, Jamaica Gollahue, nicknamed Jam, is sent by her parents to The Wooden Barn, a boarding school for emotionally hurt people, because her English boyfriend, Reeve Maxfield, "died". She attends a class called "Special Topics" to study Sylvia Plath's writing and read The Bell Jar, and she with four other students are given journals, by Mrs. Quenell, and are assigned to write about anything they wish. Jam soon discovers that writing in her journal brings her to another peaceful world with
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Joseph Campbell’s 17-stage monomyth acts as the guide to literary works and films, influencing pop culture such as song lyrics and award-winning movies. The stages serve as a basis for a journey the hero or heroine encounters with a successful, world-gaining achievement. The path includes archetypes including the deceiving temptress, the nurturing goddess, and the mortal or immortal mentor. However, Campbell’s beneficial ending does not follow through in every plot. For example, George Orwell’s Nineteen
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Ty Scott Professor Domingo Literary Heritage March 5, 2014 “Metaphors” is a poem written by Sylvia Plath that uses a metaphor in each line. A metaphor is a statement that has an underlying meaning that usually addresses an association between the statement and the underlying meaning. After reading the entire poem, it is not difficult to understand the subject matter of Sylvia’s poem; a pregnant woman. In order to figure out the metaphor, one must break down each line, because each line is a
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Throughout the history of literature there have been countless names that have been forever etched onto the book cover of writing—William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Sylvia Plath. But perhaps one of the more controversial and disputatious of them all would be the Irish writer, Oscar Wilde. Born in October, 1854, Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde1 was and is feasibly one of the most revered Irish novelist, playwright, essayist and poet in the Irish literature and culture renaissance. With his rather
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Red Pill or Blue Pill They say that the most intelligent people in life are the unhappy people. Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Vincent Van Gough some of the most famous people have committed suicide. When searching for truth and purpose within life one is subjecting themselves to a life of unhappiness. With every decision in one’s life one chooses whether to remain ignorant to their surroundings or to become knowledgeable to the absolute truth within life. I believe that it is in each individual’s
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