Sylvia Plath Essay

However, while committing this act, she hemorrhages. Sylvia Plath made Esther build up this idea of retribution of finally getting back at Buddy, who signifies men in general, and, in the end, a bloody mess is the outcome. This event of bleeding could portray how Esther got rid of the impureness in her body either…

A Bell Jar The notion of ideal gender roles that have been brought up by the post-world war two era are self-evident in the novel, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. The title of the novel itself represents how the protagonist, Esther, feels about the pressure of holding up to proper feminine decorum put into place by society. This is obvious when Esther begins to explain about her life choices, as represented by the fig tree, where each fig is a path that Esther can choose to live, however choosing…

unhealthy relationships with a farther and their children take a mental toll on the children weather they are beating them or just simply not putting effort and being loving towards their child, the damage is all the same. In the poem Daddy by Sylvia Plath, has a negative contradicting tone throughout the poem. The narrator is expressing how he/she but one would amuse…

I bought the audio book for The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, which was narrated by Maggie Gyllenhaal. The bell jar she refers to is a metaphor of how she feels suffocating, stewing in her own “sour air”. (Plath, S.) She also refers to the bell jar as something many people around her seem to have that are in denial, perhaps not even just in their own madness, but about everything. In chapter 7 Esther bring up feeling inadequate. (Lit Charts) Esther doesn’t seem to recognize her own accomplishments.…

Sylvia Plath was a dynamic and admired poet. She took her like at the age of 30. In Sylvia Plath’s poem “Lady Lazarus,” it describes a character who thinks her life worth nothing. It seems like she wants to die and come back to life. In the poem “Lady Lazarus,” the speaker has various character traits but is self-destructive, suicidal, vengeful, and masochistic. Firstly, the speaker in this poem is self-destructive. In Sylvia Plath’s poem “Lady Lazarus,” the speaker described: I do it so it…

Esther most significant anxiety is her desire to succeed in various parts of her life professionally and personally, while recognizing that she lives in a world where women rarely venture into success outside of their homes. When Esther thinks of the fig tree she finds it symbolic to host her new opportunities that exist. “From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked.” She associates each fig with a different life choice but her desire to branch out…

In all three essays that I have turned in this year, the thesis was drastically altered after the second draft was turned in. The routine started with the first paper I turned in for English 1102. The essay was analyzing the poem “Metaphors” by Sylvia Plath. The most important changes in direction of the essay came after the final draft was turned in, and while revising for my portfolio. As I was reading through it, a detail hit me that I had completely missed the first time writing it. The…

speaker saying “I unpeel” which could represent the rebirth of a new speaker. The quotation “Suicidal, at one with the drive into the red” could represent the death of the old speaker and the birth of a new personality. By the time Ariel was written Plath had twice attempted to take her life. This suicidal drive…

sing” (Erica Jong). Anne Sexton was an honest and unapologetic young writer, who was unafraid of expressing the true realities of life through the medium of her poetry. As a young woman of the 50s, 60s and 70s, Anne was inspired by poets such as Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell. The 50s and 60s were a time of oppression and sexism towards women, and Anne’s writing often challenged that of the social norms of her era. She was bold enough to incorporate topics such as abortion and addiction into her…

produced from things like stress, trauma, abuse, and alcohol or drug use. People react differently depending on the type of illness and how it was caused. They might hurt themselves or others. Eric Leuschner states “In many ways, the primary theme of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar is that of illness. Over the course of The Bell Jar the main character, Esther Greenwood, changes dramatically as she descends into madness and receives treatment for recovery. In the beginning of this novel Esther…