The Bell Jar

Unfortunately, Women in the 1950’s were classified as modern day slaves to men in many ways. Women were seen as homemakers, which means they took responsibility of running the household and taking care of it, this was also known as a housekeeper. Some of the tasks that gave women this title were cooking, cleaning and taking care of their children, this was just some of the handful of jobs the women had to do and this is how they earned their respectful name as inferiors to the men in this era.…

In Everything Bad Is Good For You by Steven Johnson and The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, the role of popular culture as a mode of reflection on society reveals the importance of intellectual complexity being a referent power that motivates individuals to analyze their society and create independent-minded judgments based on these observations to create changes for the overall prosperity and progress. In Everything Bad Is Good For You, one of Steven Johnson’s key points is his theory of the Sleeper…

Sylvia Plath has caused me to take a different path in not only my understanding of poetry, but the appreciation of it as well. This is the story of Sylvia Plath; a gruesome yet great story. There are many great things about Plath’s contemporary work. From her life to her death she was an inspiration to us all. Sylvia Plath’s Poetry reflects on her battles of despair with her personal struggles as an artist and as a woman in the modern century. Focusing on Plath’s major events of her life, it…

way to shrink cities from different planets for closer examination. Superman discovered that his city still existed and he decided to steal it from Braniac, and hides it in his fortress of solitude, where he pumped kryptonian atmosphere into the bell jar to keep them stabilized. However, the encased city became a constant reminder of Superman’s loneliness and…

At Junction Hill, their attendance rates are above Missouri’s average. Since 2012 to 2015, attendance rates have stayed pretty level at 95 percent. Since 2002, Junction Hill has met all of the requirements in mathematics and reading until 2010. Looking at individual scores, it shows the students exceeded past expectations and received two plus points over what was needed. In 2000 to 2009, children in poverty went from 26.3 percent to 27.6. The adult unemployment rate went up as well. It started…

In both texts, Kat is established as outspoken and “shrewed,” however, the context impacts how Kat is perceived and her ability to express her opinions and values. In the film, Kat is a feminist, evident when she is seen reading “The Bell Jar.” She is first characterised through the use of upbeat rock music and a close up of her intimidating facial expression to hightlight the fact that she is not a “traditional” teenage girl like her peers in the blue car. In Taming of the Shrew Kat…

of womanhood, the other works that fully explored the postwar experience of women were Betty Friedman’s The Feminine Mystique (1963) credited with sparking the second wave of feminism in US; Mary McCarthy’s The Group (1963)and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (1963). The historical reality of women in the 1950s cannot be merely reduced to film representations, there were more challenging acting roles at the turn of the 1960s which reveals that female identity was changing during a decade which…

Using expects from Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and J.K Rowling’s honest confession about her depression: “But Rowling said she was “dismissed” when she did go for help – dismissed by a doctor who was temporarily replacing her regular doctor. Unbelievably, the stand-in doctor sent her away even…

Writers who adopted the modern way of thinking displayed a relatively strong sense of cohesion and similarity across genres and locales (The Literature Network). Postmodernism, in writing, focuses more on the inner self and consciousness of a person as opposed to resorting the natural overarching structures of the world’s view of literature. Rather than the promotion of growth of an individual, its purpose is more dependent on the idea of decay and a growing alienation, which both discussed…

Every day in America, babies are born with their own free spirit. However, as they grow, their subconscious is constantly being molded by their parents. Children are bound to their parents’ actions, whether they know it or not. The way an adult acts shapes how their child matures. Children and teenagers in America have a tendency to mimic the behavior of their parents. Therefore, the values and attitudes a parent exhibits during early childhood, influence their child’s development into adulthood…