Jar

This poem was created at the same time as “The Bell Jar” right before Sylvia’s first suicide attempt in August 1953. This poem narrates a conversation between the poet and the reader, where the poet is telling the reader that if she closed her eyes ,she will forget about the world,and get in her own…

Electroconvulsive Therapy, which uses electrodes to cause a minimal seizure and ultimately reduce symptoms of all different kinds of mental problems and disorders (Electroconvulsive)). This was what inspired her single novel published, titled The Bell Jar. After being hospitalized, she decided to return back to Smith College, then found out she could study at Cambridge University in England on scholarship. She took the chance and moved across the Atlantic Ocean. While at Cambridge, she fell in…

Mademoiselle magazine and spent that summer as the guest editor in the magazine’s New York office (Lague 1148). At the end of the summer, Plath attempted suicide and got psychiatric treatment and electroshock therapy, this event inspired her piece The Bell Jar, which…

Sylvia Plath’s autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar sets itself amongst the experiences in the life of a young woman, Esther in a male-dominated society. It has been open for debate due to the controversial themes discussed and the honest way Plath discusses them. One of these themes includes feminism and Plath’s supporting views on the subject by utilizing characters and scenes from her novel to provide the strong commentary on American women seen in the novel. The most unique woman present…

Sweetening jars also called honey jars are a type of jar or bottle spell that is used to sweeten someone up to you, sweeten their mind to you, become nicer, loving, willing, or offer kindness to you. These spells can be used for court cases in which you want the judge and lawyers to take your side over the opponent’s side. They can be used to reconcile with a lover, friend, or family member. You can use them for sweetening a new guy towards you. You can use one to get a new job, sweeten your…

Sylvia Plath established a brilliant academic record and exhibited talent both as an artist and as a writer, publishing her first short story in Seventeen magazine soon after finishing high school. Her academic and literary successes continued after her admission to Smith College in the fall of 1950. The recipient of several prestigious scholarships, she performed impressively in her college courses and published her works in several national magazines, earning, among other accolades, a summer…

tormented and thoughtful mind. The Bell Jar is a perniciously brutal story of a young woman struggling to handle the pressures of academia, sexism, career uncertainty, insomnia, depression. These factors had a synergetic effect on her ability to get through life. Essentially, the events in the book are autobiographical. Truly, one would be incapable of creating such a gruesomely emotional novel without experiencing the same internal despair as its protagonist. The Bell Jar is a strange mix of…

Patrick Amy Writing about Literature Dr. Lavelle Midterm March 6, 2015 Sylvia Plath: the Writer, the Pioneer, the Idol. In her brief and productive life, Sylvia Plath produced some of the more notable and controversial work than that of any of her contemporaries. Plath’s distinctive themes ubiquitous in her work enables her to broach a body of material that many other writers are incapable of: her dedication to exploring certain themes that others did not left an ineradicable mark on American…

The poem “Tulips” was written after her stay at a mental health treatment center for a suicide attempt, which was also the basis for her only novel, “The Bell Jar.” The poem goes into more depth about how the hospital made her feel free from her life and troubles until the ‘tulips’ are made present in the story. The feeling of freedom is from the distance away from her distant and unloving husband, while the…

Bread in a Shippable Jar When baking banana bread you must have the main ingredient prepared ahead of time. You must freeze over-ripened bananas. The recipe calls for three-four so that is the amount I froze. This process of freezing at least three to four ripe bananas is crucial because if you fail to follow through with this first step, you cannot bake the bread. Next in preparation for making this delicious bread was to buy the jars. I purchased nine 16 ounce, purple jars. However, the…