Sylvia Plath Essay

branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From,the tip of every branch like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked … I saw myself sitting in the crotch of the fig tree, starving to death,” (Plath 77). FUNCTION - In The Bell Jar. Sylvia Plath implies that without proper communication, problems can fester and become more severe. Esther Greenwood is hopeless in her life and future, and she claims she has no idea what to do. She is surrounded by talented people…

permission of a doctors who show the patriarchal society as stated in the story .But she resists and her mind doesn’t change by those and she says “But I wasn’t getting married” (Plath, 233). She manages to prove herself and stop this power represented by man no matter how powerful it is. She does not think about society. Plath…

Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, and John Berryman. Each writer is hinted to individually in the three stanzas. Meredith uses the allusion of a dream reality to describe the different suicide method used. This is noted in the first verse, which pays homage to Hemingway, “I reach for the awkward shotgun not to disarm / you, but to feel the metal horn, / furred with the downy membrane of dream”. Meredith also takes the time to vocalize to the reader and make it clear that Sylvia Plath, “who…

in a bedraggled, populous city and its persona is represented by an extremely caliginous man under the name of Prufrock. He is depicted as one that is afraid of living and hence is continually procrastinating. In contrast, ‘Mirror’, written by Sylvia Plath in 1961, around two years before her suicide, carries one into the mind of a woman through the eyes of a “silver and exact” mirror and sees from the mirror, through to the woman’s ageing and definition of a woman changing for the period of…

Not Far From Strange There is really something in common on the book “Cyrano de Bergerac” by Edmond Rostand and “The Bell Jar” by Sylvia plath. They both practice literature and writing. “Cyrano de Bergerac” is about a nobleman (cyrano) serving as a soldier in the french army. He has many talents within him poetry, musician and a remarkable duelist. He has an extremely large nose which prevents him from expressing his love to his cousin Roxanne. How will that connects with the book “The…

enjoyment, forgiveness, or jealousy. Many of the greats of literature have written about flowers and used them to explore topics and themes that others may not touch upon. The poems “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower” by William Carlos Williams, “Tulips” by Sylvia Plath, and “Rose Pogonias” by Robert Frost present themes by using figurative language regularly throughout the poems and utilizing flowers as representations. To begin, these three poems use various…

Sylvia Plath’s ‘Mirrors’ was written two years before she had committed suicide and the context behind this was mainly due to her chronic depression. On the other side of the spectrum, ‘Morning Song’ was written and composed in dedication to her newborn daughter, Frieda. ‘Mirrors’ records the life of a woman staring at herself through reflection the clear and uninfluenced eyes of a mirror, there is a consistent pessimistic view about revealing one’s true self. ‘Morning Song’, however is filled…

relationship over a given amount of time. Though relationships may seem wonderful and heartwarming, in these particular works, the negative effects of male and female relationships are more apparent than the positive effects. In the poem, “Spinster,” by Sylvia Plath, the effects that are present throughout the poem provide an underlying basis for the main idea: to avoid the…

Plath’s poem is about approaching motherhood and the joy that surrounds that. Plath alludes to the presence of an unborn baby through phrases such as ‘gilled like a fish’, which indicates that it is still in the speakers womb. ‘My little loaf’ allows the reader to acknowledge that the speaker already has a sense of protectiveness…

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath is the story of a young, vivacious college student who struggles with her everyday college life and her successes. It leads her to over-work her mind and have a nervous breakdown. The novel is a journey through the mind of the young college girl, Esther Greenwood, and her slow descent into insanity. It is an intriguing insight at how the mind works, or in Esther’s case, turns against her. Esther is a young college student who has had much success is her life. She…