William Styron

To Educate or to Advocate? When I first set out to propose a project, I wasn’t sure what topic I wanted to conquer. Therefore, I quickly jumped when the professor suggested reading the memoir, “Darkness Visible” by William Styron. I have enjoyed all the class readings so far, I even did my last project on another memoir, and thought that reading a fresh perspective regarding mental illness would be engaging and inspiring. Unfortunately, I began reading “Darkness Visible” with preconceived notions

In the novel Sophie’s Choice by William Styron, Stingo, Sophie and Nathan approached their guilt in different ways that ultimately lead them to depression or contentment. Sophie’s guilt explained why she allowed herself to be continually abused in her dysfunctional relationships, and her attempts to commit suicide. Sophie’s choice forced her to choose between condemning her son or daughter to death. Through Styron’s character Sophie, he suggested that the burden of guilt can make a person’s life

In William Styron’s book Sophie’s Choice Styron explains the effects of World war 2 on an American, a Polish person and a Jewish person. Sophie, the polish women, who is forced to make a very difficult decision during the war, a choice that, affects her mental state of mind for the rest of her life. Stingo, the American and narrator of the story struggles to find inspiration for his writing career while also discovering his families past. Nathan, the Jewish man who is hopelessly in love with Sophie

Human Behavior in the Social Environment III Client: William Styron Axis I 296. 25 Major Depressive Disorder, Single Episode, In Partial Remission Axis II 799.9 Deferred Axis III Deferred Axis IV Recent awarding ceremony Problems related to the social environment: Death of friends Problems with primary support

Having a “Sophie’s Choice” is a term that has become infamous after the publication of William Styron’s Sophie’s Choice in 1979. It is a noun that describes choosing between two difficult decisions that have the same outcome. In the story there is a writer living in New York who meets an odd couple, Sophie Zawistowaska and Nathan Landau. They are lovers, but in the story Sophie’s past in Auschwitz is revealed in greater detail. Through that, it is revealed that “Sophie’s Choice” was the unforgivable

A Memoir of Madness by William Styron. This memoir is about Styron and his journey to and from unipolar depression. I chose this book to read because it seemed interesting to read about a novelist who went through depression. I do not know much about depression and I knew this would be a great book to read about depression since it has many great reviews and is Styron’s bestseller. Styron goes in detail of how he thinks his depression started and his path to recovery. Styron compares his battle of

The Development of William Mossop’s Character in Hobson’s Choice William Mossop started off as a lodger lodging with Ada Figgins. He was shy and had no ambitions working at Hobson’s shoe shop at the bottom of the chain. At the end of the play he was ambitious, married and the joint owner of Hobsons shop. The audience sympathises with Willie the first time he appears on stage because he ‘only comes half way up the trap door’. This is because of his social standing and he feels that he is

Memory and Memory loss in Death of a Salesman and Soucouyant The Death of a Salesman and Soucouyant both broach the topic of memory, in opposite but complementary ways. Where ‘Death’ is about falsifying positive memories, and Soucouyant is about ‘forgetting to forget’. Where adeles memories are a trauma, and very much tried to forget, willies memories are a solace to him, and a way for him to cope with his failures. Both detail an unchronological slip of a figure into mental illness, and both end

William Faulkner Biography Nobel Prize–winning novelist William Faulkner, a major American twentieth-century author, wrote historical novels portraying the decline and decay of the upper crust of Southern society. The imaginative power and psychological depth of his work ranks him as one of America's greatest novelists. William Cuthbert Faulkner was born on September 25,1879 in New Albany, Mississippi however he grew up in Oxford, Mississippi. He was the first of four sons to Murry Cuthbert Faulkner

Poems are the best to express thoughts to readers, many writers choose to write poems to speak their feelings which plain ordinary texts will not do. Three poems have special ideas about marriage, they are: “Marriage” by William Carlos Williams, “Marriea Love” by Kuan Tao-Sheng, and an untitled one by Apache Song. All three of them have a central idea of marriage; two people are one individual after marriage, one cannot separate from the other one. These poems are short but they carry deep morals