A Whole New World

Sylvia Plath was a poet; Samuel Beckett a play writer; Franz Kafka a novelist. All three masterful writers transformed the norm into their own interpretations and concocted their own worlds within their writings. Through their writings, any reader can identify with the themes and situations they paint with words and be unwillingly sucked into their world of upside down rules and contorted view of man and life.

Sylvia Plath’s poetry paints a picture of her sorrows she felt consumed her life. Plath writes of somber depressing situations. Through her imagery and poetic lines, she transports the reader into her world sucking the liveliness right out of the reader one word and metaphor at a time. One cannot walk away from reading Plath with a content feeling about the world and the way life unfolds. But with Sylvia Plath’s descriptions of places she writes about the reader feels as if they are there seeing what Plath is writing about.

Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot takes the reader on a seemingly endless journey with Vladimir, Lucky, Estragon, and Pozzo. This world is very much desolate and by the long extended conversations and ability to identify with the characters, the reader is sucked into the world of waiting for Godot. One feels like they are present and within the pages when Lucky gives his speech and Estragon is eating a carrot. The sadness of the repetition is a concept every reader can identify with so while reading Beckett, one feels like they are part of his twisted world.

Franz Kafka also has created his own world. His main character K. appears in a mysterious situation of reaching the castle in a village built on social status and rules. Through Kafka’s extended scenes and ability to relate to every reader with common themes most struggle with, Kafka embeds the reader into his world and one feels like they are present during the love making, the bar scenes, and the struggle to reach the castle.

All three writers have created their own worlds which include common situations and themes that every reader can identity with. Through their use of words, descriptions, imagery, and extended scenes, the reading feel as if they are part of the world in which the author created living the scenes with the characters in the books, plays, and poems.