Tag: literary essay
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Introduction to Literature- Sylvia Plath
Death by Domestication By Kacie Fowler November 2024 Sylvia Plath’s life, and subsequent death, demonstrated the many of the struggles with societies norms, questions, and shortcomings that are bestowed upon women who find themselves living the ‘American Lifestyle’. Lady Lazarus is a poem that shows us just how mind-numbing and soul-damaging domesticity can be for…
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Introduction to Literature- The Hate U Give
A YA book I probably would have not picked up, for the single fact that I do not read YA in general, had it not been for my literature class. What a ride this book took me on, with some…interesting discussions in class. The main thing that surprised me about The Hate U Give was…
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Introduction to Literature- Hills Like White Elephants
As someone who has spent a lot of time (and recently money) on their own brain, there is nothing I find more compelling and attractive in another human than I do emotional intelligence. There is just something about a person that can regulate themselves with decorum and an understanding that they are not the only…
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The Gothic Genre: An Unabated Literary Movement
Another English Composition assignment to build off of our “This I Believe” essay from a few weeks ago. I had a really fun time with this one and it served to reignite my passion for literature, specifically Gothic literature. Humans are naturally drawn to all things morbid, corrupt, and morally grey, whether they want…
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