Jamie Smith

Winston is a blubbering fool, but at the beginning of the book, he was kinda cool. He had a nice place to live and had a nice job which allowed him to live a peaceful life, but he had go and mess it up by writing in that dumb diary and hooking up with Julia. He was a records editor at the Ministry of Truth which allowed him to have some perks such as Victory Gin and Victory Cigarettes. All Winston had to do was to do his job and change records when they needed to be; no harm done. The first

Adam Smith vs. Karl Marx: The prophet of our future Adam Smith and Karl Marx are two of the most influential individuals in human history. While they did not rule any empires or command any armies, the power of their ideas significantly influenced and transformed the world in which we live today (Heilbroner, 11). The ideas of Adam Smith formed the intellectual foundation of the classical economics that paved way to the modern economics, capitalism and subsequent transformation of the human society

Sylvia Plath suggests that in certain cases there are gaps in what people expect of a person and what that person actually experiences; add that with depression and the expectations of women in the 1950s, and there will be certain distortions in individual thoughts. Esther, the narrator of the The Bell Jar, contradicts every aspect of what is expected of a women in this time period. Society and the way it works seems to drive Esther mad, possibly claiming what is expected of certain groups can ,perhaps

1984 Final In the novel 1984, by George Orwell, the themes of trust and betrayal are recurring throughout. In fact, the characteristics that lead up to an individual betraying one another are deeply rooted in to the characters of the novel. For example, Mr. Charrington’s betrayal to Winston and Julia, O'Brien betrayal to Winston, and Winston’s ultimate betrayal to Julia. Prior to Winston’s betrayal to Julia, the readers sees the tune "Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me

After reading the accounts of James Smith and Mary Rowlandson, one can easily determine that James Smith got the better end of the deal when it came to being captured by the Native Americans. From the very beginning, both of their situations were completely different and only slightly similar. On one hand, Rowlandson talked about the tragedies she had to endure while being a captive with the Wampanoag’s in 1676. She went through the horror of being shot, and watching everyone she knew either get

Writers Captain John Smith and Governor William Bradford were two very important men in the New World. In the early 1600s, the men both wrote of the many experiences they endured in early America. The two scholars did not have much in common except for that fact. The two had different occupations, felt otherwise about the Native Americans, and had distinctive writing styles. However, the two men were to become two of the United States founding writers. Captain John Smith was a very important person

In the book In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, one of the two killers, Perry Smith, is presented to be an emotional villain whose actions towards others reflects the way society has treated him. The traumatic and broken childhood that Perry endured did not only leave him untrusting of others but was a gateway to the dramatic and unpleasant life that Perry lived. Not only shown through his criminal actions, but every aspect of Perry’s life is negatively marked by his experiences, illustrating the trainwreck

Sylvia Plath, a very talented writer and poet, focuses on two very prominent themes in her works: death, specifically suicide, and suffering. In her only novel, The Bell Jar, the protagonist, Esther Greenwood, takes the reader on a journey that explores the life and struggles of a young female poet and a tragic heroine. Esther's experiences reflect those of Sylvia Plath's. Plath describes her life as she saw it, confessing her thoughts and feelings to her audience. In her poems, "Perseus", "Lorelei"

Sylvia Plath’s wit, sarcasm, and myriad of emotions in The Bell Jar are all shown throughout. Esther Greenwood, whom represents Plath in the novel, feels trapped in a bell jar that is society. Esther never truly learned how to be an independent individual herself, so she is simply dependent on others and follows their way of life being that she is highly indecisive. Esther Greenwood’s insanity is influenced by her role within the society of the 1950s and by the dominance of males which she had to

Often times in life, the pressure from peers and the status of which one must live up to tends to corrode one’s character. The dawn of the twentieth century saw much change in the legal progressions of women, as they finally gained their rights. Although having reached such accomplishments, women still did not maintain equality in societal expectations. The Bell Jar, first published under the pseudonym “Victoria Lucas”, persists as a confessional novel that embodies Sylvia Plath’s struggles with