Conflicting Perspectives Essay

In 1963 on a cold winter day of February 11th, Sylvia Plath ended her life. She had plugged up her kitchen, sealing up the cracks in doors and windows before she was found with her head inside of her gas oven inhaling the dangerous fumes. She was only thirty years old, a young woman with two small children and an estranged ex-husband. A tragic detail of her life is that this is the second time she had tried to commit suicide. Plagued with mental illness her whole life, which is evident within her poetry. She would write gripping, honest portrayals of mental illnesses. Especially within Ariel, the last poetry book she wrote, right before she took her life. Although it’s hard to find a proper diagnosis for Sylvia Plath, it is almost definite that she at least had clinical depression with her numerous suicide attempts and stays in mental hospitals undergoing electroshock therapy. Sylvia Plath is now famously known for her writing and the more tragic parts of her life. Such as the separation from her husband, Ted Hughes, mental illness, etc… Plath may not have intended for her life and art to become inspiration to many people but that has become the end result. Sylvia Plath writing shows symptoms of her suicidal thoughts. To study specific moments in Sylvia Plath’s life, it can be connected to certain writing’s of her’s, such as “Daddy”, The Bell Jar, and “Lady Lazarus”.

In the Book of Romans Paul wrote many letters answering questions about the human world, mankind’s relations with God, the natural world and most importantly the plan of salvation. Paul wrote these letters to tell the truth, to tell that no matter what race or religion, we are all sinner and the only way to truly become righteous is though faith in Jesus Christ. In Rome at that time you had two extremes of people, the heathens, and those who thought they were holier than thou (Jews). In todays society we still have those two extremes but we also have a middle ground, those who are straddling the fence. Paul just wanted the entire human race to know that we are guilty before God for both past and

Although Plath uses atrocious examples of death and uses the rebirth of Lazarus as the basis of the poem, the underlying tone presented is

‘Conflicting perspectives are the result of individual desires. Manipulation and distortion are used in the attempt to achieve a desired end.’

The poem has an ironically affectionate title for one that is so violent and shows such discord between the dead father, it’s as if Plath has to exorcise her father out of the life

Madison McDonald Dr. Jeann Owens English 2110 November 25, 2016 Color Symbolism Colors hold a great significance for many people around the world, varying throughout cultures, religions, and ethnic groups. Colors are also used to evoke different emotions in our soul such as; red for power and aggression, bright colors like yellow and orange representing warmth and happiness while blue and black portray sadness and depression. Along these same lines do authors compose their symbolistic work. Throughout history authors have used color to express a deeper level of intellectual thinking to their audience, we refer to this as color symbolism. Charlotte Perkins Gilman chose an ordinary color in one of the most well known examples of color symbolism, yellow.

In this description, the use of the color white invokes a sense of purity and refinement, symbolizing the gracefulness of the old-money class. However, the white symbol of purity is contrasted by the color red, which represents violence and anger. For example, Fitzgerald writes: “Inside, the crimson room bloomed with light”(Fitzgerald 17). In this citation, the use of the color red, on the inside of the home, illustrates that internally, Tom and Daisy are plagued by anger and insensitivity. Fitzgerald’s use of color symbolism, specifically white to represent the appearance of purity and red to represent the violence of reality. Further. the notion that the old money class’ values and traditions are a facade and in reality they are selfish conveys a lack of social mobility, as those with old money solely care for themselves and their power.

As mentioned, there are many different viewpoints on cosmetic surgery, for instance, double-standards within media, and within ourselves. Since this is a controversial topic, there are extreme opinions as well. Extreme viewpoints include siding with religion or siding with the total acceptance of cosmetic surgery.

Another reason that I am ready to pass this class and move on to change the world with my writing is that I know how to effectively and fairly address the viewpoints of others whose ideas may differ from my own on a certain topic while further proving why my argument is more valid. In the paper “Arguing a Position,” I was writing to convince parents to keep their children out of competitive sports until high school so that the children could be spared the health risks and pressure to be the best that competitive sports can bring to everyone involved. In my counterargument paragraph, I conceded to the fact that competitive sports can have physical and social benefits to the children if they are in the sport for a long enough period of time.

In class, we discussed relativism versus absolutism and truth in layers. The first level of truth is correspondence— this states that an idea is true if it relates to what is being describe. However, if one sees someone’s hair color as brown, its because they have a way of perceiving and judging the world around them. Thus, this creates a divide between people because what may be my truth can be drastically different to someone else’s. For example, I have faced many racial based issues on campus as an ethnic person. However, I have had friends not understand/believe my experiences because they see the world through different lenses. So, how do we determine what is the reality among the many different truths? The second level of truth is Revelation/Perception,

Throughout our lives we take on certain views on events, situations and people in our lives. These are formed from the positive or negative outcomes of experiences that we encounter. Society’s views on certain issues and the views of those around us influence the outcomes of those experiences. David Guterson’s novel, “Snow Falling on Cedars” and Shaun Tan and John Marsden’s picture book, “The Rabbits” both portray conflicting perspectives that are shaped from past events.

Introduction: Conflicting perspectives are different points of view expressed and influenced by ones context and values. “Birthday Letters” by Ted Hughes is an anthology of poems challenging the accusation that he was responsible for his wife, Sylvia Plath’s death. The three poems The Minotaur, Your Paris, and Red are an insight into Hughes justification of the death of Plath using a very subjective and emotive poetic form. The poems possess many deliberate techniques such as extended metaphors, connotations, diction and juxtaposition to encourage the audience to accept his argument that he was not the one to blame for this world renown tragedy. The poem Daddy by Sylvia Plath also displays conflicting perspectives of the

Certain colors correspond with specific emotions or feelings (“Color Meanings, Color Symbolism, Meaning of Colors"). For example, red possibly represents anger, passion, and love, and blue represents sadness, serenity, and despair

Throughout history, philosophers have come up with their versions of the actual definition for ‘truth’. The Greek philosopher Aristotle had explained truth as “To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true” [1]. Aristotle explains that truth can be described as that something that is definite and distinct in its own form, nature or identity. Another Greek sophist and philosopher Protagoras held the view that “man is the measure of all things, of things that are that they are, and of things that are not that they are not”[2]. According to him, every person’s opinion of truth is based his or her own perception of truth. In the famous

The first colour we can meet with is red colour. Red colour is mentioned lot of times in the story. For example when Tess met Alec he gave her roses (the red flowers) and gave her red strawberries in her mouth. Red colour symbolize love, symphathy and romance. However the red colour symblolize love, in the other side, it also symbolize some bad things that happened. To give you an example of what I mean to illustrate this point I chose blood. Blood was mentioned many times in the story. For example blood dropping from ceeling in the house. Blood symblolize the sadness, misfortune and also some unluck. Thomas Hardy also mentioned black and white colour which is typical symbol of opposites. Some of charecters were not the same and they were totally