Holbrook Perspective On Democracy

Rose’s perspectives on democracy are shown in the poem “Democracy” and in the excerpt from “12 Angry Men”. They both express in these passages that democracy can be unfair, very inefficient at times and also inequality. Yet, both authors don’t see eye to eye, for the things they want equality for. While Holbrook shows more feelings about equality of resources in her poem, Rose talks about equality in terms of judgement and accusations toward the accused defendant. This makes their perspectives similar

from each other during the wars to justify what they are doing. However, after the wars are ended, and they find the private time to think about their pasts, especially their roles in battlefield, they realize what they have done during the war. As Holbrook tells his own experience, “I fought in Vietnam and helped kill dozens of people. A third of the century later, I am still haunted by that experience” (1). Its reason is that they develop empathy with the people they fought in battlefield, and understand

Conflict between Individuality and Conformity in The Bell Jar   In Sylvia Plath's novel The Bell Jar, Esther Greenwood seems incapable of healthy relationships with other women. She is trapped in a patriarchal society with rigid expectations of womanhood. The cost of transgressing social norms is isolation, institutionalization and a lost identity as woman. The struggle for an individual identity under this regime is enough to drive a person to the verge of suicide. Given the oppressive system