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The Bell Jar The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath, is a realistic, and shocking novel of a woman falling into the grips of insanity. The novel is a semi-autobiography, which means some of the things that happened in the book did happen. Sylvia Plath, will play the character Esther Greenwood, while as all the other characters had been people she met that gave her an idea of that character. The Bell Jar, is about a 19 year old girl named, Esther Greenwood, who undergoes a series of events before finding…

Emily Dickinson Sydney York 2ab 2/12/16 Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst Massachusetts to Edward Dickinson and Emily Norcross-Dickinson. She had two siblings, her brother William Austin Dickinson was born in 1829 and her sister Lavinia Norcross-Dickinson was born in 1833. She went to Amherst Academy for seven years and later went to…

Frida Kahlo, who was born on July 6, 1907, in Coyoacan, Mexico, was a Mexican artist known for self-portraits, which had a deeper meaning. Frida Kahlo used oil, Masonite, and canvas for her self-portrait paintings. She died on July 13, 1954, in Coyoacan, Mexico, due to a pulmonary embolism. The art styles of Frida Kahlo were surrealism and realism. Surrealism is an art form when a painting has unrelated images in a very strange way. Realism is a style of painting are depicted as they are…

Sylvia Plath, knowledgeable beyond her years, had many complications with her mental health as she grew up. This poem in particular was introduced to the public through a biographical introduction of her novel “The Bell Jar”. Through the villanelle structure, Mad Girl’s Love Song uses seemingly endless repetition, dark personification, and references to mythological creatures to touch base with the complications of the human mind, the toxicity of mental illnesses and disorders, and beyond…

Have you ever lost a loved one and realized life goes on with or without them? Many people wonder what happens after they die and hope to find peace with death. Emily Dickinson’s poem, “If I Should Die,” expresses how she feels about the world’s life after death. The poem depicts death as being peaceful and the world as disregardful. Dickinson uses various poetic devices including vivid imagery, alliteration, and repetition to emphasize her thoughts and feelings about dying. Dickinson began…

Christina Rossetti was born in London on December 5, 1830. She was the youngest out of four kids in her family. Her father was an Italian poet and also a political exile. Rossetti's childhood was exceptionally happy. Her parents gave her so much affection and care. She was educated entirely at her home where she learned to speak English and Italian. She learned how to read French, Latin, and German. She was not intimidated by how good her siblings were, she was always surrounded by many scholars…

Biography Mary Higgins Clark, a bestselling author of mystery and suspense books, was born in the Bronx, New York on December 24, 1927. Clark had published her first short story in 1956 but decided to try her hand at books in 1964 when she became windowed with five children to look after. Where Are the Children?, her first suspense novel, became an instant bestseller. After her father died, Clark became a secretary to help support the family after graduating from high school. Then she spent…

whole life trying to find themselves. The journey to self-discovery is present in The Bell Jar, for the novel focuses on the narrator, Esther Greenwood as she struggles to find herself. Through the skillful use of various literary devices, the author, Sylvia Plath, presents the theme of identity in the novel. The first introduction of Esther’s lack of identity is presented in the very first chapter of the book when she introduces herself under a fake name, Elly Higginbottom, to a man she…

People cannot help but to wonder what the ultimate book would be like and how life would differ from the future to the present. Books speak to us, we can always relate to books. Books are meaningful words, there what authors puts their own thoughts in there, which makes it have a deep meaning and soon the meaning will be extracted from the book. It would truly be troubling and a struggle for one to choose a book in the entire world to save. One book just spoke to me, The Book Thief, by Mark…

Mental illness was a seldom talked about topic in the 1960s when Sylvia Plath penned The Bell Jar. In the essence of her book Plath shows the already present gap between someone's mind and their body and how depression, or any mental illness, can widen the space even further. Symbolism pertaining to the gap is described when main character Esther Greenwood uses objects and metaphors as representations of her depression. The story follows Esther from the onset of her illness all the way to her…