Sylvia Plath writes to express the things that have happened throughout her life that also affected many young women her age. She also writes to discuss stigmatized or provocative topics. Plath takes to discussing subjects such as depression, double standards, and societal expectations, at length and candidly. Drawing from her own life and battles with depression, Plath herself went through some of the more invasive procedures as described in the novel. For Esther Greenwood, the therapy “took…
The title of this poem is ‘The Glass Jar’, by Gwen Harwood. It was published in 1963. It is a narrative, a poem that tells a story. The poem employs an ‘a-b-b-a-c-c’ rhyme scheme. It describes a child’s frightening experience of a night at home and the sense of loss he experiences as a new day begins. The poem’s main theme is about the belief that humans hold in a higher power. It suggests that faith in a higher power is never absolute, and that it can abandon people in their time of need. I…
control occurs in many aspects of life such as at work, and school. He kept them in a certain space under their power. Throughout this situation, women started to be aware .They begin to resist against this confinement as stated in the novel of The Bell Jar. The novel sheds a light to the way men occupy and control them by power relations, and the way that women resist and break that barrier in the last century. A woman’s femininity was tied to her commitment in the home. The more she was…
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fit into these preconceived standards society has made. In “The Bell Jar”, impeccably smart college student Esther Greenwood feels conflicted in her life with the combination of her oppressive surroundings and slowly growing madness. Although…
During the 1950s, women and men were under immense pressure to conform to traditional gender roles. Women were expected to stay home and tend to the children, while men were expected to be the breadwinners. Unlike men, women were expected to remain a virgin until they marry, and when they do they must not indulge in any sexual desires outside the marriage, and any sexual act with their husband is for the sole purpose of procreation. The idea of conforming to these gender roles stemmed from the…
Sylvia Plath definitely impacted American culture by writing about her battle with mental illness, like depression and her views on women's role in society. The roles for women in America at that time were not what Plath wanted. In novel, The Bell Jar, Plath shows her troubles with conflicting identities. Between trying to please her mother, trying to become successful, relationships, and mental illness. She also was considered a feminist because of her work about gender roles for women. She…
The symbol of the bell jar is clearly an important idea, as the book is titled after it. After reading this novel, the reader understands Esther feels she is trapped in a fishbowl of emotions, an idea Esther explains as a “bell jar, with stifling distortions” (241). Esther fears this bell jar, because she associates it with her depression. This looming jar seems like it should “descend again”, terrifying Esther of the return of depression…
never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.” - Laurell K. Hamilton. The novel The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath is effective when it comes to covering the critical approaches. Esther Greenwood is an extremely depressed character who is working for a magazine, and spends her timing trying to be perfect to earn scholarships who created a “bell jar” that traps her in her own mind and distances herself from everyone else including society and her own mind (Baig 1) ,…
Plath had few options available to her and her overwhelming mental and emotional state hung, like a bell jar, “suspended” over her head at times trapping her to suffocate in her own despair, and occasionally the jar lifting, gifting Plath with sweet relief and fresh air. On the exterior, Plath was an intelligent, ambitious, and passionate girl who was too sensitive for her own good. She effortlessly hosted a…