Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf Analysis

Why does Holden continuously judge people based on their physical appearance? Could this be a projection of his insecurities or a reflection of his mental health?

Paper by Megan Gamble. ​J.D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye uses literary elements to create the alienated main character Holden Caulfield. When the novel begins Holden has just been expelled from his prestigious boarding school and is headed to New York City. Salinger used certain literary elements throughout the novel to develop his lead character in way that is understandable to the readers. Salinger uses literary elements such as setting, characters, and the theme of innocence to bring to life the alienation of Holden Caulfield.

In To Kill A Mockingbird, the female characters throughout the book either tell other women that they must be a certain way, are treated wrong because they are women, or are told to be like all women are "supposed" to be. These oppressing attitudes towards women still exist in the world, but there have been some improvements, even when certain situations have worsened.

Mockingbird reflects the struggles and problems that the people in the 1900s had to go through on the daily basis. Problems that have to do with economic and social issues. People had to go through struggles related to the Great Depression and a lot of the black people in the 1900s had to experience racism everyday of their life. Not only did they experience it on the daily but there was also laws that they had to obey, and if they broke them there was consequences. To Kill a Mocking bird does a great job at showing the different situations people had to go through in that time and the time period the book was written in.

Inspired by Virginia’s Woolf renowned novel, Mrs. Dalloway, the movie is an adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Hours. In it, we get to glimpse a singular day in the lives of three women, who are contemplating suicide as they read the novel, whose protagonist’s struggle mirrors their own. The first woman depicted is Virginia Woolf herself in 1920s England. Although we first see her suicide, the movie than backtracks to examine her in a depressive episode, a product of her bipolar disorder. Woolf’s mental illness puts tension on all of her relationships as well as her artistic process, which can be seen in her difficulties when writing Mrs. Dalloway. Comparatively, Laura Brown is a 1950s housewife in LA and is pregnant with her second child. So clearly discontent with her life, Laura proceeds to do various underwhelming tasks before dropping her son off and heading to a hotel. She begins to commit suicide, but is suddenly unable. She returns home, but is still clearly depressed, which is only amplified once her husband comes home. The final woman that we get to follow is Clarissa Vaungn, a modern New Yorker, who is preparing for a party in honor of the work her friend, Richard, just published. Her story is very much inspired by the novel that the movie is centered around. As she organizes the event, her apparent distress slowly is revealed regarding her dissatisfaction with life and suicidal thoughts, which is amplified by Richard’s suicide. It is

In my extended chapter of Catcher in the Rye, I started off by making Holden a homeless person under the bridge, discombobulated on what to do with the rest of his life. I made Holden talk to Phoebe because she is one of the only characters that genuinely understands and connects to Holden on a personal level. Phoebe knows Holden's actions and motives and is the only character that can give subsidiary advice to him. When Holden was expressing his quandaries to Phoebe, she pointed out that Holden does not like anything in life. Holden responds by saying he would love to be the “catcher in the rye.”

    I chose to compare and contrast two women authors from different literary time periods.  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) as a representative of the Victorian age (1832-1901) and Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) as the spokeswoman for the Modernist (1914-1939) mindset.  Being women in historical time periods that did not embrace the talents and gifts of women; they share many of the same issues and themes throughout their works - however, it is the age in which they wrote that shaped their expressions of these themes.  Although they lived only decades apart their worlds were remarkably different - their voices were muted or amplified according to the beat of society's drum.

To Kill a Mockingbird was written in a time of racial inequality in the United States. To Kill a Mockingbird is told in the perspective of a young girl named Scout, in the late 1920s and early 1930s, who is naïve and innocent. Scout matures throughout the novel through her father, Atticus, and she becomes more aware of the prejudice in Maycomb County. When Atticus loses his case, Scout and her brother, Jem, learn that blacks cannot have a fair trial, but their new found maturity has taught them not assume someone’s character without knowing them first, such as with Boo Radley. Scout says, “‘…Atticus, he was real nice…’” (Lee 376), Atticus replied, “‘most people are, when you finally see them.’” (Lee 376). Lee uses ties with nature to symbolize not only racial issues, but other major themes such as loss of innocence. She uses things in nature such as flowers and animals to subtlety reveal major themes of the novel.

1. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf begins with a very tranquil stroll home from a party, before the viewer is aware of Martha’s drunkenness and George’s exasperation. These several shots of the couple holding onto each other and moseying their way down the sidewalk help concrete the statement that despite what occurs between these two characters, they are still very much companions who have no one else to turn to. Despite this, “their conformity to the pre-packaged values of their culture obscures this recognition” (pp. 30). Therefore, George and Martha rely on an illusion that has taken over their lives in order to function as a practical married couple in “a culture obsessed with power and objectified control” (pp. 29). The main characters

Our world moves in a cyclical manner: hearts beat in a constant rhythm; lungs fill and deflate; water moves from the ground, to the sky, and back; and life gives way to death, which rotates again into new life. There is a repetitive pulse constantly surrounding humankind’s experience. The Waves, by Virginia Woolf, creates beautiful recapitulations at the beginning of each section of the novel that build a scene from a single day. Each iteration of the oceanic scene brings a sense of calm before jumping back into the thoughts and judgments of six central characters. The plot switches repeatedly through the different perspectives of these six people, ending in a beautiful crescendo emanating out of the character Bernard. He, who throughout the

Growing up is a difficult transformation for any young person. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, illustrates these ideas through Holden Caulfield, his main figure. By displaying how tough it is for him to grow up and admit that he cannot stay adamant in his belief and realize his interpretation of others is limited. The time that is presented allows Holden more ground for stereotypes and explains why his mindset is so set and why he interprets individuals and circumstances in his own sense. The perception of Holden help to present the internal struggles that people in societies face while attempting to age. J.D. Salinger uses the point of view, characterization, and setting to relate to his crowd and to make his book much more

Scout knows that she is a girl that She should not play boys games, get into fights, and wear outfits that it is considered for males. Also, she knows that she should dress as a lady and only play with girly toys. However, she is genuine and she feels secure of her female gender, yet she does not feel conform with the fact that women in her society have limitations and there is existing prejudice by males to females, for example, when Jem told her “Scout, I’m telling you for the last time, shut your trap or go home-I declare to the Lord your r getting more like a girl every day!” (53, chapter 6) Jem told her that as a critique of her behavior and not for the fact that she is a female. Furthermore, Scout feels aversion against being pressured

In The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger explores a teenage boy 's struggle with adolescence after the death of his brother. The story is told from the perspective of Holden Caulfield, who discusses his recent past from a psychiatric hospital. Throughout the novel, Salinger explores how Caulfield copes with the grief of his brother Allie 's death, and how he projects his emotions to the outside world and on everyone else around him. Specially, Caulfield manages his emotions by alienating himself from the world. Salinger also explores how he responds to the painful reality of growing up, and despises the transition from childhood to adulthood. He wishes to address the "phonies of the adult world"(Salinger 18), so that children will not have

The novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” written by Harper Lee, is a narrative told from the first person perspective of the character Jean Louise “Scout” Finch. It follows the story of Scout and her immediate society, relaying the destruction of innocence. The theme that the tale conveys, along with the underlying messages, would be contemplated differently if the author had told the story from a different point of view. Lee’s sleepy and southerly conformed ideas corral concepts provoked during the process of reading the work from both the geographical location and time period’s eyes.

The reader can hear her voice through her descriptive words, it shows how the author feels. These descriptive words show us the voice and the voice seems sad and lonely with no help in sight. “Her body was wrapped round the pain as a damp sheet is folded over a wire.”(Woolf pg.124) This synonym also shows how much pain Mrs. Grey's body is in that she feels like her body is being bent in half and weak. The synonym shows the reader of the essay that it sounds sad and painful. Also when Woolf used the word “marionette” you can kinda hear the voice of pain and how she feels like a puppet and not being able to do much at all. When woolf compared Mrs. Grey to a rook on a barn door with a nail through but still leaving I could kinda hear some determination from the essay because it shows how she's been through so much and lost so much but made it through it and still leaving.