Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Jeanette Winterson

This essay will address the power of language and literature in relation to some of the contemporary issues that Jeanette Winterson discusses in her memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? In it she reflects on her tragic and traumatic...

In both the 19th century fictional autobiography of Jane Eyre, and the 21st century memoir by Jeanette Winterson, protagonists are presented as being trapped within the oppressive worlds that they inhabit. Winterson and Eyre fight many battles,...