Female writers, Annie Dillard and Virginia Woolf, both had very different life experiences. Not only did they live on different continents but they were born in different centuries. Even so both of these authors had a similar and peculiar occurrence happen in both of their lives. The occurrence included an encounter with a dying moth leading them into deep reflective thought. Dillard and Woolf both wrote pieces on their thoughts and how the encounter influenced them in pieces titled “The Death of a Moth” and “The Death of the Moth” respectively.
Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne were two authors who put a certain focus in their stories. They had a sense of how to craft and shape it that could mirror real life. They focused on creating characters that were not flat and two dimensional, but instead could represent actual issues and struggles that reflected reality. They wrote stories that placed these characters in different, and sometimes unusual, situations that would produce different results. They showed that while bending reality a bit, they could reflect the inside of the mind.
There is a certain level of reverence that Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf exhibits for plays. Although, the motion picture is more than just a recording of a theatrical play you can’t help but feel that you are in fact watching a play that was translated onto the big screen. The camera “…function[s] as a recorder, with the signature (the distinguishing stylistic qualities) of the filmmaker kept unobtrusive”.p146. Without a doubt Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf resembles a film more heavily influenced by David Belasco. The characters’ attire, along with the car, and decoration of the home and dinner were all accurate to the time period that they were depicted as being in.
With their similarities in writing styles, we see the struggle that the human mind goes through when dealing with dark obsession, an important aspect of the human condition. There are also some differences, for instance, there is death in both but they are a bit different, and one of the narrators has more control of their situation than the other. Not everything is as it appears, for example in Poe’s “Tell-Tale Heart.”
Two examples of Romantic poets are Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson, whose writing exemplifies the Romantic theme of individuality, or the divergence from traditional societal norms and beliefs. The poems “A Dream Within A Dream,” by Edgar Allan Poe, and “Much Madness is Divinest Sense,” by Emily Dickinson perfectly display this theme of individuality. Within these poems, one can see both the similarities and differences regarding the theme, numerous elements of Romanticism such as individualism, imagination, and insight, the impact the theme has on societal norms, and the timelessness of the theme by being incorporated into modern day culture. To begin, there are many similarities to be found within “A Dream Within A Dream” and “Much Madness Is Divinest Sense”. The most prevalent similarity between the two is the theme.
For all difference ages and times social norms have been around and for all those ages and times they have been people that were rejected from society or opt to isolate themselves from society. Both Edgar Allan Poe and Ralph Waldo Emerson both portray the negative aspects of society and how it limits the individual through different uses conflict and foreshadowing in their works. The main difference between both authors is the way they interpret corruption of society. Poe and Emerson use conflict to portray society as being horrible and merciless in all their aspects. Both authors use a different type of conflict to interpret the effects of society.
“Different Authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate”(John Green).Authors Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman who lived and expressed Themselves through Poetry and Writing during the realism era, convey different style characteristics, write in very different ways and connect to their audiences through very different ways. Both authors have very contrasting writing, although both differences and similarities are discovered by such characteristics. The writing of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman shows many similarities and many differences through their backgrounds and themes, and the way both aspects affect their writing. Walt Whitman experienced a very different upbringing,
Virginia Woolf asserts her feminist thought on why there have been so few female writers. Tying being a minority to the very few numbers of men writers to women writers. Through a series of examples and claims she makes to help understand how difficult this time period was for any person who was not a male. During the 1920s the 19th Amendment granted women the rights to vote, we being to see the League of Women Voters educating women about their right and to exercise because this was something very abnormal. Congress tries to makes statements like “Men and women shall have equal rights”.
Poe and Hawthorne, two authors of Dark Romanticism and Gothic literature, were contemporaries and wrote within the same literary period in the 19th century. They have both left their mark and signature on various literary genres that are still studied and analyzed to this day. “The Fall of the House of Usher” and The Scarlett Letter were all of one brood , equally as imaginative and as metaphorical and symbolic. Both authors seemed to be obsessed with the power of blackness due to their dark view on life resulting from their harsh childhood; they both have been orphaned from an early age. They were known to write short stories that tackle themes such as seclusion (“Rappaccini’s Daughter”), guilt (“Ethan Brand”), obsession (“The Tell-Tale
Eliot are distinctly dissimilar, the messages expressed through these two excerpts are the same. Lines 203-212 in act V scene i. of Hamlet and Lines 66-75 in section I of The Wasteland both reflect the idea of the speakers that our actions in life are futile. This universal theme that is expressed in both works tells us that we are all connected through
Woolf and other artists are able to use the censorship and hardships that they encountered in order to gain motivation which is reflected in Woolf’s main argument of her work. Throughout history, women have been viewed as intellectually inferior to men, and, as such, the writing of women has been largely discouraged and censored. Woolf and other revolutionary female writers were able to use this discrimination as an obstacle that their writing had to overcome. Her argument comes from the fact that it is extremely difficult for women to write great works when they are struggling to survive in their daily lives which shoves art into the back of their minds. Woolf claims that “these difficulties [indifference and material circumstances] were infinitely
Woman writers, poets, and thinkers began to create the early foundations for feminist thought and logic during this time. One of the pioneering voices in this emerging feminist movement was Virginia Woolf. Woolf, in her essay A Room of One’s Own tries to address the question of creativity between the sexes, and under what conditions does creativity flourish. Using a very poetic narrative style, Woolf explores several ideas in her attempt to understand the differences in the creative faculties of men and women. She explores themes relating to poverty and education, stating the relative difference in wealth between men and women.
Modernism was a period in the early twentieth century that often dates back to the publication of T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” This movement broke the traditional ways of form, concepts, and style found in poetry and allowed poets to freely express their ideas and beliefs through various ways such as free verse, fragmentation, allusions, imagery etc. T.S. Eliot is known for modernizing himself on his own by using fragments that incorporate multiple voices into his work. Eliot’s use of fragmentation and allusions in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and The Waste Land demonstrates his belief that modern society is disordered and chaotic and his realization that reality is too disjointed to understand. Fragmentation
Although Eliot contested feminism in her time, claiming to be “a daughter of the fathers” (Mitchell 14), her novels nonetheless strive to give a realistic depiction of social outsiders and small town persecution .Rather than creating “silly novels by lady novelists [who] rarely introduce us into any other than very lofty and fashionable society” (Eliot 1856), Eliot challenges the representations of dark women in traditional English society, much like a late Jean Rhys in Wide Sargasso Sea, detailing their hardships and unpleasant endings. Therefore, in analysing what Philip terms as Maggie’s “long suicide” (Eliot 429), I aim to uncover the years of societal abuse dark women endured in European society,
The characteristics of modernity are: pessimism, frustration, isolation, total sense of loss; modern writers had no sense of purpose, the anxiety of uncertainty, meaninglessness, no values and miscommunication. The Hollow Men (1925) is a poem written by T.S. Eliot. Its themes are, like many of Eliot’s poems, absurdity, fragmentation and overlapping, but it is crucial to connect this poem most with the World War 1 which caused the dark view since wars cause destruction and frustration. Moreover, the difficulty of hope and being optimistic. This poem is divided into five parts and consists of 98 lines.
