The Bell Jar

died in the end” (Plath 105). Sylvia Plath was a very talented writer who, even at a young age, wrote poems involving the sorrows of people’s lives. She based many of her writings on people and events from her own life. As seen in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and her other works, Plath uses people, such as her father, and events, like her mental breakdown, that occurred in her life during the mid 1900s to create her own confessional style of writing that focuses heavily on death and depression. …

audiences’ preconception of the nature of sexual consent and the influence of it upon their own world. Sylvia Plath was a martyr of the Second Wave feminism as her writing induced this questioning of the conventional values surrounding sexual consent. The Bell Jar confronts the issue of sexual consent when Esther is sexually assaulted by a wealthy man she is introduced to at a party, “If I just lie here and do nothing it will happen … I fisted my fingers together and smashed them at his nose. It…

events and the people that surrounded her. The poem, Point Shirley, was about a town that bordered hers, and two other famous poems, Daddy and The Beekeeper’s Daughter, were about her father. Most notably, Sylvia Plath is the author of the novel, The Bell Jar, and poetry collections called The Colossus and Ariel, Winter…

each other, and then again Sylvia Plath regularly asserted that she detested her mom. Their relationship is depicted in Plath's novel The Bell Jar. Triumphalist women's activist readings of Plath have made a big deal about her well-archived rage against men, yet Plath's wrath against her mom was a massively characterizing power. There is a minute in The Bell Jar when the Plath character,…

Esther herself falls gradually into a pit of depression, leading her to attempt suicide numerous times. Esther’s descent into depression mirrors Plath’s own battle with mental illness during her life, and The Bell Jar serves as a means of examining the effects traditional societal standards have on women who wish to defy conventional gender roles. Esther’s mental illness arises out of her effort to escape social gender norms while those norms simultaneously affect…

1.) The first artifact that show evidence of ritualism in Ancient China the Mao Gong Ding. This artifact shows how successful of a ruler King Li and King Xuan were. It was also something to represent how ethical of a ruler they were. This artifact was created by Duke of Mao, who was assigned by King Xuan to take care of all governing matters. The Duke of Mao created this piece of work to honor King Li and his reign. The Mao Gong Ding is a big three – legged cauldron made out of bronze (bronze…

“Can’t you see that I’m suffering” (Greenberg 278)? 7am. Wake up. Blink once, blink twice. Your vision starts to become more clear as the light burns your eyes. You finally adjust to the bright morning sun. 8am. Rush off of the city bus in the hopes of having time to get coffee before work. Take a deep breath. The feeling of cold wind brushes across your rosy cheeks. You take a moment to look at the thousands of people rushing by. 8:30am You stand on the corner of the sidewalk waiting to cross…

intelligent young girl compelled towards perfection at everything she attempted. She was a model daughter and student, earning straight A’s and always winning the best prizes. She had an impressive list of publications ranging from famous novel The Bell Jar to the world-renowned poem “Daddy.” However, you have to dig much deeper than the surface to discover who Sylvia Plath truly was. She was not solely a consummate human, but a girl struggling with extensive personal discontinuities. Sylvia…

emotive. It was Evie’s first day of a public school and she was surprised about how the school was. It states on page 48, "I can't think of a less appealing environment. It's like a warehouse. Except worse." and page 49 "The bell rings, but it doesn't sound like school bells in movies." She doesn't except a lot of things that she thought school was about. Another emoji used to describe another scene is the heart eyes emoji. When she first met at the beginning, Evie was so amazed by Rajas as if…

She attends a class called "Special Topics" to study Sylvia Plath's writing and reads The Bell Jar. She with four other students are given journals by the teacher, Mrs. Quenell, and are assigned to write about anything they wish. Jam soon discovers writing in her journal brings her to a peaceful world with Reeve. Jam states, "I'm…