The Relationship Of A Young Working Class Hairdresser

In the beginning, Rita presents as a young, lower class woman, dressed in what might be considered as less than conservative clothing, with blond hair and colored highlights. Although, as her academic achievement progresses, and when she returns from London, her appearance is shown as more refined, with more modest clothing, and single-toned hair. She seems more comfortable in the world of higher education. And though she struggled to choose appropriate clothing and classy wine for a dinner party at first, she now prides herself in finally being able to say, “I know what clothes to wear, what wine to buy, what plays to see, what papers and books to read.” Rita’s newfound confidence displays again when she is late to a tutorial because she stops to discuss literature with a group of students, where before she feared that her opinions wouldn’t sound educated enough. On her trek for knowledge, Rita is introduced to worlds and perspectives that she might not otherwise have experienced, and the new understanding she gains helps prepare her and therefore gives her more confidence, to adapt to a situation easier.

The main character Esther, in Sylvia Plath's novel experiences a series of internal conflicts and mental challenges, which eventually lead up to her breakdown. Esther initially struggles with the feeling that society expects her to be happy, due to her luxurious life in New York City but in reality, she is very unhappy. Additionally, Esther has lost her grip on life and feels emotionally numb. On top of these emotions, Esther deals with feeling like she is on display, or in the spotlight, which exposes her to societies judgement and adds extra pressure on Esther.

In the poem ‘ Ordinary Life ’ and the adapted excerpt from ‘Lives of Girls and Women’, Barbara Crooker and Alice Munroboth respectively display an ordinary family life of two families living in different life styles. Both families live in harmony. However in terms of reality, Garnet’s family living style in the excerpt is more likely to take place in the real life than the family in ‘Ordinary Life’ .

Plath’s father’s untimely death left her with an unhealthy sort of codependency, resulting in a skewed image of relationships in general. In Plath’s poem “Daddy”, the speaker details their relationship with their father as that between a Jewish person and a Nazi. The speakers describes the fear they experience in junction with their father. The speaker further elaborates on their father’s death when they were young, and that despite the deep resentment the speaker feels for their father, how it affected them deeply. Plath’s own father died when she was eight, and although he was a distant figure in her life due to his illness, she, too, was deeply moved by his death, relating back to the poem (Alexander, 32). What hurt Sylvia most about her father’s

As a young lady, Ayn’s father oft told her about why it is so crucial for one to have self, and to be narcissistic, rather than to be selfless. Day after day he would continually remind her “We are not born to do what other people want us to do” (In Her Own Words). These words profoundly affect, not only Ayn’s writing, but her behavior as well. Consequently, Ayn is one of the most self-optimistic personage, one will ever behold. In one interview she even spoke, “I was the most brilliant” (In Her Own Words); nonetheless, she knew of her grandeur and was not reluctant to declare it. Although one generally portrays being egotistic as a negative element, it is actually the key to obtaining complete ecstasy. Thereby, Ayn concluded to address individualism, versus collectivism, in a manner that was both compelling, yet transparent to the reader; thus, creating the character “Equality 7-2521”. Today’s society expects one to relinquish to what humanity covets of him or her. More times than not, this is due to one’s lack of knowledge on collectivism, rather than the fact he or she prefers it over individualism. Even those who genuinely favor communism, do not grasp how precarious, and fatal it is; nevertheless, Ayn wrote Anthem, to such an extreme, in an attempt to augment awareness, as it must become a public interest. Individuals of

In Carol Ann Duffy’s poem, ‘education for leisure’ and Sheenagh Pugh’s, ‘she was nineteen and she was bored’, both poets look on modern society in a negative way. Both poems look at the themes of suffering and unhappiness when cast out from society.which are two states that are inextricably linkable. Unhappiness can come as a result of suffering, or the need to make others suffer can come from pure unhappiness. Duffy and Pugh both make these distinctions in their work, and are able to engage the reader by exploring these universal themes.

In the course of life, most people experiences the same things, but in different ways and at different times. For Minnie Foster of Susan Glaspell’s, Trifles, and Hester of Gwen Pharis Ringwood’s play, Still Stands the House, they both experience extreme isolation, depression, and insanity.

In the poem Sandra, the tone of frustration is evident in the first line when she declares, ‘I’ve stuck it out’, implying that she has remained in the town despite her limited opportunities. By listing the different groups and roles fulfilled in the town, she implicitly highlights the rigidity of the social structures and by contrasting the roles of men and women in their ‘twinsets looped with pearls’, Page alludes to the expected dress of women in the 1950’s a symbol of the repressed roles of women and wife and mother. Similarly, the direct statements ‘it’s not enough … to be just indispensable’ and ‘the goal I have is not the one thought up by Mum and Dad’, shows Sandra’s emphasises her discontentment and lack of place in this town. These direct and clear statements represent how she desires to be part of a community in which her right to not to have her life dictated by the learned attitudes and expectations of the community, is possible. Also, the contrast between the attitudes between Janene and Sharon in their respective poems illustrates how even on a familial level Janene’s right to individually determine her own life is disregarded by her mother, Sharon. Sharon, in this way,

Thornton Wilder’s play, Our Town, outlines the lives of two families realistically from 1901 to 1913. Multiple themes are presented through the lives of these families in three separate acts: “Daily Life”, “Love and Marriage”, and “Death and Eternity”. Although each act entails different commonly faced problems and themes, the play does not lack a central, universal theme. Each act contributes to a main theme about human life that, even after 81 years, is still relevant to society today. The main theme of the play, Our Town, is that human life is repetitive and temporary.

The woman rejects any motion that she lost her identity due to fear of admitting her fault. Ironically, the woman turns to find comfort in the shallowness and wealth of others even though the upper class values have never made her truly happy. Furthermore, the woman’s “meanings lost in manner” (27) force her to remain “alone in brilliant circles” (28). The woman desires to find some happiness and comfort in the rest of her life, but she’s only accustom to finding it in trivial wealth. Through imagery, the reader understands that the woman has completely lost her personal value in the manners of the upper class and remains in the lifestyle that beckons her with its material, flashy

The hair industry has changed so much since I started doing hair in my Mothers Basement salon in the 80s. I have always loved watching the complete transformation that takes place with the amazing art of hair design.

As is inherent within the tradition of confessional poetry, a subgenre of lyric poetry which was most prominent from the fifties to the seventies (Moore), Sylvia Plath uses the events of her own tragic life as the basis of creating a persona in order to examine unusual relationships. An excellent example of this technique is Plath’s poem “Daddy” from 1962, in which she skilfully manipulates both diction, trope and, of course, rhetoric to create a character which, although separate from Plath herself, draws on aspects of her life to illustrate and make points about destructive, interhuman relations. Firstly that of a father and daughter, but later also that of a wife and her unfaithful husband.

To enjoy a blissful life, people tend to turn a deaf ear to the negative aspects of life. However, by doing so, their utopic world can easily be burst and they are left harshly exposed to the reality they once tried to ignore. This is clearly illustrated in Shakespeare’s play King Lear, in Maupassant’s short story “Madame Hermet”, and in Cheever’s short story “The Swimmer”. Through the characters affected by madness in these literary works, it is depicted that madness can lead to a breakdown in individual identity, especially when social status is involved. The way individual identity is linked to social class in these texts can be understood by looking at obsession with accumulating wealth and power, preserving one’s beauty, and being accepted

Educating Rita is the tale of one working class women 's struggle to find an escape to a boring, repetitive life and to find new things to conquer. To acheive this she begins university on a literature course despite the discouragement from family and baby-obsessed husband Denny. The play features only two characters, Rita and Frank. Frank- a middle class, well-educated, eloquent professor and Rita, an abrupt, crude excuse for a lady with no regard for or more precise, no knowing of social nouce. Throughout the play Rita 's character must reach two social extremities before she can learn to be true to herself. Arriving in Frank 's office loud and sarcastic

Through the 20th century, war, technology, and the capitalism had lasting effects on the overall conformity and passivity of society. Within the novel Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and the play “Waiting for Godot” by Samuel Beckett, the general stagnation, inauthenticity, and cultural malaise are made evident in the main characters’ actions. Nonetheless, we are not given an answer regarding whether or not we can reform these flaws. The two works cause us to reflect on our own human tendency to conform and be passive. Virginia Woolf’s Clarissa Dalloway, for example, is an upper-class house wife that spends her days buying flowers and throwing parties. Beckett’s Vladimir and Estragon literally wait for Godot throughout the play without ever moving from the road on which they sit. Although Woolf’s setting is much more detailed than Beckett’s, they both signify the circular life that the main characters in both texts cannot break free from, leaving humanity trapped by passivity and conformity.