Sylvia Plath Essay

“All my life I’d told myself studying and reading and writing and working like mad was what I wanted to do, and it actually seemed to be true, I did everything well enough and got all A’s, and by the time I made it to college nobody could stop me.” (Plath, 31). Esther has a desperation for success, to the point where she spent all her days putting as much work possible towards her education. By the time she got to college her desire to succeed was completely unstoppable. Despite the unequalness…

It’s easy to blame crazy, as if crazy could aim a gun or slit a throat. If being poetically misunderstood deems her as crazy and that justifies her suicide in the eyes of society, than have that be so. In the case of Silvia Plath her death was not because of her psych but because of her husband, the medical practices, and the writing standards of her generation. Silvia’s husband was an accomplice in her death, he played a major part as to why she had killed herself. One can conclude that Silvia…

and cold relation to her husband also included in the features of confessional writer. In a paper, titled, “A Kaleidoscopic View of Kamala Das’ My Story” R. Tamil Selvi, compares Kamala Das with Sylvia Path. “… Kamala Das does not throw herself off the balcony. At this juncture, we are reminded of Sylvia Plath, another woman writer who also underwent the same trauma as Kamala did. Their stylistic and thematic concerns are similar, as far as form and content are considered. Both writers express…

This line speaks the most to me because the speaker still loves his father after the abuse, and purposely or not the memory of his father beating him are replaced with the waltz. In “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath, the speaker describes her rough relationship with her father and how it negatively affects her relationship with her husband, ending in her killing them both. The speaker sees her father every time she sees a German, “I thought every German was…

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ and Sylvia Plath’s novel, ‘The Bell Jar’, scrutinises how both women, the unnamed narrator and Esther, become mentally unstable. Both protagonists exploit their real life situations in their story and novel to emphasise how being a woman living in a patriarchal society has caused mental breakdowns. Moreover, they make attempts to explore and understand their suffering of depression and the possible ways to overcome it. The short…

becomes increasingly curious and fascinated. Plath’s strange perception and obsession different from the typical person becomes obvious to readers when she responds to a question by saying, “Wonderful, I could see something like that every day” (35). Plath also states, “I was quite proud of the way I stared at all of these gruesome things”…

Looking on Sylvia Plath’s history and tendencies to write poems about the struggles of women of her age, women were likely the intended demographic. This poem is vague enough in its language, however, to apply to just about any group of ostracized individuals. Plath incorporates this message of silent oppression without being pushy or whiny, which is one of this poem’s greatest strength…

Sylvia Plath, in her novel The Bell Jar, said, “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed”. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, reflects this idea of recognizing the falseness of society and distancing oneself from others in order to create a shield against societal superficiality. In the novel, we see Holden Caulfield interact with various personalities, all of whom bring out different aspects of his own character and attitude toward society. In order to convey the…

Sylvia Plath`s poem the “Snakecharmer” elaborates on the theme of creation. The recurring ideas, narrative techniques, tone as well as the devices used, enhances the poem, making it quite appealing to the readers. The question implies that the technical devices help readers to highlight and trace the creation process of this eight-stanza poem. With the title itself, the poet already creates a sense of suspense and makes the reader anticipate the mystical and symbolic aspect of the poem. The…

“Initiation” In the short story, “Initiation” by Sylvia Plath, the character, Millicent goes through a pivotal moment and discloses who she truly is on the inside. Before then, she thought popularity was the top priority. However, Millicent realizes that although popularity can boost her self esteem, her status will only last a short term because it only outlined who she was on the outside, and it gave others a biased opinion on herself. Before the flashback was read, the narrator aforesaid…