Sylvia Plath effect

In this section of The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath I chose to focus on how Esther feels about herself, and her life so far. Esther does not really know what she wants to do with her life anymore, and she is really unsure about a lot of things. Esther wants to do a lot in life, but she realizes that she can’t and gets disappointed. Esther is really confused about where her life is going, which brings on a lot of self-doubt. Esther is really confused about where her life is going, and is confused…

Mary Anne Bell is my favorite character because she redefines gender roles in the brute nature of the Vietnamese War. She portrays dynamic character development that is far more intense than all the other characters. The author, Tim O’Brien, uses Mary Anne Bell’s character to signify how war can manipulate people’s ideologies and expectations. Mary Anne Bell’s character is complex because it is difficult to analyze as to why she allows herself to fall susceptible to the war much quicker. The…

A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. Contrarily to the previews statement, Junot Diaz as well as Sylvia Plath have proven through their works that this is not always correct. Both parents in the stories instead of building have mentally destroyed their children. “Fiesta 1980” by Junot Diaz and “Daddy” by Silvia Plath are similar in the way both narrators present their fathers as tyrants and oppressors, but different in the way the main characters tend to…

Summary This song “Drunk Daddy” by Cherry Poppin Daddies mainly highlights the issue of child abuse in family households but other issues are brought up such as poverty and love affairs. This song is about a son and daughter and their mother who marries a man who is an alcoholic, written from the perspective of the son. The first line of this song explains this situation, “Mamma married a big asshole, whiskey bottles on the floor”. The children are poor and get physically abused by their new…

A Bell Jar The notion of ideal gender roles that have been brought up by the post-world war two era are self-evident in the novel, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. The title of the novel itself represents how the protagonist, Esther, feels about the pressure of holding up to proper feminine decorum put into place by society. This is obvious when Esther begins to explain about her life choices, as represented by the fig tree, where each fig is a path that Esther can choose to live, however choosing…

Sylvia Plath: Battlefield of the Mind In life, people have their good days and bad days. Everyone deals with sadness from time to time, but depression is more than just a bad day. Depression is a mental disease that torments many people. Just trying to get through a day with depression can be devastating. Some of the poems written by Sylvia Plath, show how much she struggled with severe depression and how that struggle ended in suicide. Many different signs of her struggles with depression are…

Society, as defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is “a social circle or a group of social circles having a clearly marked identity.” Obtaining a clearly marked identity is easier said than done. The Bell Jar, written by Sylvia Plath, is a novel about nineteen year-old Esther Greenwood struggling to find her place in society. In her struggle, Esther falls into a deep depression and attempts suicide, causing her to be admitted to a mental hospital. Societal expectations of everyone, women…

unhealthy relationships with a farther and their children take a mental toll on the children weather they are beating them or just simply not putting effort and being loving towards their child, the damage is all the same. In the poem Daddy by Sylvia Plath, has a negative contradicting tone throughout the poem. The narrator is expressing how he/she but one would amuse…

Sylvia Plath , not being the only American writer, was considered to be the best dramatization writer. Her childhood was like everybody’s , a childhood full of books and a desire to touch the sky with their fingertips . Sylvia Plath’s works were phenomenal, which were based on her life.Sylvia Plath was a great writer that ended her life at a young age, but who is now honored as been the “patron saint of self-dramatization” and self pity. Sylvia Plath was born during the Great…

The Devil Wears Prada’s storyline revolves around the unlikely relationship that is eventually formed between Andrea ‘Andy’ Sachs, a dedicated journalism graduate who knows absolutely nothing about the fashion world, and Miranda Priestley, the cutthroat editor-in-chief of the fictional Runway magazine, whose entire life is surrendered to Jimmy Choos, Prada purses, crushed souls, and broken dreams. After having no luck in applying for any respectable newspaper in New York City, Andy receives the…