Sylvia Likens

girl named Sylvia Likens. It reveals destruction as a source of fun, using words like “sex party,” enforcing abominable acts, blaming Sylvia for a fake pregnancy of sins, acting deaf and blind to the excruciating pain of the sufferer and not realizing what the sufferer is going through. She is said to have a “career of human ashtray.” The psychology of the persecutors and the persecuted Sylvia is a mystery. Gertrude Baniszewski, Richard Hobbs and her children are persecutors of Sylvia that…

Probably Sylvia was destined for persecution because she and her sister had almost no chances of escaping the death and torture on the hands of Gertrude and her children. It is interesting to note that not one child from the Baniszewskis seemed to question the reason of inflicting the torture on poor Sylvia. Also, it is surprising to know that Gertrude had illicit relationship with Richard Hobbs, what time…

to say that feminism is the belief that women and men should have equal political, economical and social rights, and also the same opportunities as men have. In the light of issue of feminism, American women poets of 1950s and their works such as Sylvia Plath’s "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus", can be analyzed in terms of reflecting their need for self-affirmation and the position of women in the male dominated society and gender discrimination they faced. Plath’s "Lady Lazarus" shows that women are…

an almost futile yearning to understand a pain that has no answer. This search can be linked to the human condition to romanticize the unsightly in order to make it an ideal, but mental illness is unfortunately unyielding to easy explanations. In Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar,” protagonist Esther Greenwood struggles with her mental illness in many ways, most of all in finding the strength to understand it. While wrestling with her separation from the world, she explores the ways in which to…

The Representation of the Bell Jar As long as suffering exists, so too does the search for its explanation. The human urge to romanticize pain explains this pursuit, but mental illness is unfortunately unyielding to simple justifications. In Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar,” protagonist Esther Greenwood struggles with her mental illness in many ways, most of all in finding the strength to understand it. While wrestling with her separation from the world, she explores the ways in which to represent…