Literature Essays

Irmgard Keun’s 1932 novel The Artificial Silk Girl opens a window into the life of a young woman in the early 1930s. Doris, the protagonist, is a young woman from a working-class family navigating life in Germany in 1931. Doris is uneducated and...

Sylvia Plath, the author of The Bell Jar, once said, “Is there no way out of the mind?” (Sylvia). Like her protagonist, Esther Greenwood, Plath struggled with depression and mental illness. This aspect of her life became a very prominent theme in...