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Fun Home

                                    What makes Bruce such an Anti-hero?                                  Made by: Emperor Zig-Zag-Zig Elliot                 While I was trying to think of what I could write for this blog on Fun Home, I remembered a particular prompt on this blog that I think could work for this as there are strong contrasts that I had with this question on whether or not Bruce was an Antihero. It's hard to like at Bruce as a hero as he does not present any characteristics that would make you think "Oh, you see he was a good guy all the time".  However, he does have the backstory that would make you think so since he was molested by a man who was much older than him when he was only a child. On top of all that, he had to deal with keeping himself in the c...

Esther's loneliness

                                                                 Esther's Loneliness                                        The entire metaphor of the Bell Jar is of her depression. Similarly to a character like Holden Caulfield, they both feel a resentment towards the social norms, but they present in different ways, while Holden Caulfield is far more "outspoken" about his dissatisfaction with the world and feels no shame from the fact that the rest of the world is different from him. Esther on the other hand chooses to bottle her feelings, there are constant scenes throughout the book where there are things that she want's to say in her mind but she never has the guts to say it. The bell jar to me is her defense on prot...