Entrapment In The Diving Bell And The Butterfly

“And it hits me, not then, but today, thirty years later. Thirty years too late”(91). Those are the words of Jessamyn Hope when speaking about her experience with regret regarding her life’s decisions, the major theme for her essay. Her essay tells the story about how she failed to overcome two life challenges, one having a direct physical impact and the other having a delayed impact. The essay “The Reverse Dive” by Jessamyn Hope is a narrative essay looking to persuade its reader through the use of analogy, empirical evidence, and appeal to emotion that one should face their challenges while they can to avoid regrets.

Tim Winton’s short story, ‘The Water Was Dark and it Went Forever Down’, depicts a nameless, adolescent girl who is battling the voices inside her head along with the powerful punishments at the hands of her inebriated mother. The key concerns of life and death are portrayed through the girl’s viewpoint as she compares her life with her sad, depressed mother. Anonymous as she is, the girl constantly makes an attempt to escape the outbursts, that come as a result to her mother’s drinking, by submerging herself into the water. An extended metaphor is used when expressing the girl as a machine and her will to continue surviving in her sombre life.

In the novel The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, the main character, Lily Owens struggles with the notion that she killed her mother and has to live with her abusive, neglectful father, T-Ray. Throughout, Lily searches for information about her mother and why she left her. Unexpectedly, she stumbles upon new mother figures that play an important role in changing Lily to the person she is in later. The typical sequence of a hero’s journey includes a departure, initiation and trials, and reintegration into society. By the end, Lily Owens developes into a more mature, independent young women after experiencing a difficult childhood.

Death by water also plays a large part of Louise Erdrich’s short story “Fleur,” in a much more immediate and dramatic way. The story opens with a drowning in the same way that The Piano opens with a journey by water; the drowning, however, is not only

In spite of the difficulties Bauby had to endure he ended up writing a 140 page autobiography called “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”. In his autobiography Bauby described what his life was like before and after he had the stroke and reflected on his personal experience of what it was

In their respective texts, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and The Cry of the Gull, Jean-Dominique Bauby and Emmanuelle Laborit tackle the daunting task of radically shaping their non-disabled audience’s opinions. Though they certainly contain therapeutic elements, they are highly persuasive in their content. Laborit follows the traditional route of the polemic in her autobiography, using The Cry of the Gull as a foundation for critiques on various controversies in the D/deaf community. Bauby, on the other hand, takes a narrower approach as he essentially argues for his consciousness. The scope of both Laborit and Bauby’s audiences also reflect their arguments at hand. Despite their differences, both of these texts become polemic pieces in

An analysis of several of the stories in The Collected Stories of Peter Carey reveals numerous common attributes, leading to the aspects of entrapment and isolation appearing as common aspects of the stories. These come across in both the physical and mental form. Often the entire experience of entrapment and isolation is the result of the interaction of both forms.

In Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”, Louise Mallard is caught in a cold marriage and a constrictive house. The same goes for Sarah Penn in Mary Wilkins Freeman “The Revolt of “Mother.’” Despite the fact that both stories share the topics of imprisonment and control, physically and inwardly, the ladies in the stories have diverse responses to their circumstances. Sarah battles the confinements without holding back, taking her opportunity, while Mrs. Mallard adopts a motionless strategy and is just liberated through the death of Mr. Mallard.

It’s not every day that one may watch a film that can be categorized in all the genres of thriller, drama, love, and sci-fi. However, in J. Mackye Gruber and Eric Bress’s movie, “The Butterfly Effect”, they do exactly that. Throughout the movie, a young man, Evan Treborn, played by Ashton Kutcher, who like his father before him, has memory blackouts that he must deal with. After several years had passed, Evan discovers a supernatural procedure to alter his entire life and find his disappeared and disturbing memories. Unfortunately, to relive these moments and memories in his past, there are critical and harsh consequences.

In Doris Lessing’s short story,“Through the Tunnel,” examines a boy named Jerry and his “rite of passage” to prove to himself and to the older boys that he too could swim down to the underwater tunnel. Jerry’s controlling characteristic comes from his determination to swim down to the tunnel just like the older boys. This characteristic motivates this character because he has a desire to become like the older boys and he will do anything to accomplish his goal. Jerry, an eleven year old boy who feels isolated from a clique of boys who do not welcome the idea of a newcomer. Knowing that the boys are judging him, he wants nothing more than to join the group and he dived in the water with them, and “He felt he was accepted, and he dived again, carefully, proud of himself.”

A young man who is named Nick and has just been dropped off by the train and standing on a bridge watching the trout. There is no mentioned what happened to him, however, he have experiences seems like a distressing period because of “all old feeling” (Hemmingway). He felt he had left everything behind. Nick is continually interacting with the natural world, which given a prominent role. In this story with the river, the grasshoppers, and the swamp is important in this story, too. Nature lets Nick to explore his feeling regardless disturb from other people. According to Agosto, nature is use tools for psychoanalysis in order to make the silence of the challenges the readers to discover the characters and their awareness of reading, symbolic

The story “Through The Tunnel” by Doris Lessing is about a boy named Jerry who vacations with his mother. Jerry matures over time because he wanted to be included in the group of older boys. He thought he would be accepted if he swam through an underwater tunnel. Jerry’s swim through this tunnel is a passage from boyhood to adulthood. Doris Lessing uses the symbol of the tunnel to illustrate a boy’s childhood to adulthood.

Adrienne Rich has written "Diving into the Wreck” in 1973. When read literally, the poem is about a scuba diver who swims down to a shipwreck in order to explore it. Symbolically, however, it has many different interpretations. It can be argued that the entire poem is a metaphor for human suffering and dealing with an unpleasant past. This argument can give way to the reason why it was written: to establish that the past can be just as tragic as a shipwreck and it can prove to be a very difficult situation when one is forced to face it, especially when it refuses to disappear.

Exploring the experiences of individuals in extreme and in the case of ‘Room’, unconceivable aspects of life, the theme of manipulation is central to the progression of both Sylvia Plath’s ‘Ariel’ and Emma Donoghue’s ‘Room’. Contrary to Donoghue, Plath stands as an autobiographical writer, drawing upon her own life surrounded with ambiguous identities and manipulation as the main motivation for her writing, such as the uncovering of her father’s hidden identity as a Nazi sympathiser. By contrast, while it has been bluntly concluded Donoghue’s work was spurred solely by the notorious Fritzl case, following one of the world’s most heinous

Exploration is the activity that takes place in this poem. Whatever else the speaker is doing or feeling or saying, she is diving down into the ocean to explore. We are used to this idea of exploring a shipwreck. Whether it's videos of the sunken Titanic or stories about diving for pirate gold, we know about people in wet suits looking at old ships. What this poem suggests, though, is that exploration might not just refer to looking at a ship. There might be other kinds of emotional, internal exploration going on here.