Sylvia Plath

Esther, not only did not follow these norms, but she despised them. For example, Plath writes: “This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with…

In Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy,” Plath discusses her troubling relationships, mostly between her father, that had an enormous impact on her life. Attempting to finally rid herself of her father’s control, Plath uses this poem to metaphorically kill him over and over again while continuing to hold on to bits and pieces of him that she still loves and misses. His psychological control over her took a toll on her mentally as seen through a number of suicide attempts. She uses this to propel her work,…

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…

Many authors work impact the culture and society around them. The author 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…

Sylvia Plath; Along with authors such as Virginia Woolf, Simone de Bauvoir and Marguerite Duras, is one of the biggest female authors of 20th century. The Bell Jar shares more characteristics with Sylvia Plath’s life than just a semi-autobiographical novel. The main character of the book, Esther travels to New York to work as an intern in a fashion magazine, just like Sylvia Plath did. They are both poets, who lost their fathers at the age of 8 and both Esther and Sylvia Plath slowly falls into…

“Metaphors” represents how Sylvia Plath viewed pregnancy. From the emotional state to the physical state, Plath gives us visuals of the frame of mind when one is pregnant. She expresses that she feels huge and that there is a large amount of responsibility to go along with this season in her life. Being pregnant isn't a very flattering time for some women which Plath shows. Plath seems to focus on the negative feelings with the ever-changing body of a pregnant woman. Plath uses a riddle,…

Sylvia Plath has written many poems that reflect on the horrid Holocaust era, and many people wonder why she chose to put these references in her poems. Her father, Otto Plath, associated himself with the Nazis throughout the Holocaust time period, and she may be referring to this throughout these poems. These poems also reflect the personal struggles of her life. More specifically, Plath’s poem “Daddy” asserts the influences that her personal struggles and her use of vivid Holocaust images have…

and alter the child’s life. In Sylvia Plath’s poem Daddy, the story tells how the narrator copes and continues her life after her father dies. Even after his harsh treatment and rude demeanor while he was alive, he is still an entity that she herself lives her life by. Plath conveys the narrator’s feeling of confinement with the use of metaphors, repetition, and allusion throughout the poem. The use of metaphors throughout the poem shows the reader how much Plath feels trapped by her own…

summer in New York City that Sylvia Plath talks about in her novel, The Bell Jar. This novel captivates in great and vivid detail the enjoyment that Sylvia Plath has in the summer of 1953. However, while Pain, Parties, Work sheds light on the vivacious side of Sylvia Plath during that summer, it doesn’t match the life that Sylvia portrays in her own novel. Sylvia in New York City is electrically alive; Sylvia in her own novel is drained from it. In 1953, Sylvia Plath had applied for an…

that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison” which is what “Metaphors” by Sylvia Plath is unsurprisingly composed of. The overarching metaphor is subtle, but the meaning and significance is clear. “Metaphors” exemplifies the expression “beating around the bush” as it is understood that the speaker of this Plath poem is a pregnant woman, without explicitly stating that she is. The speaker of the poem “Metaphors” is a woman with an unwanted…