The Bell Jar

time twenty-three test units were either wholly or partially excavated; twenty-two 8x16-foot units and one 8x8-foot units. These test units were used to form site boundaries and to discover the significance of the site. It was in 1985 that the Whydah bell was discovered. From these test units we now know that the Whydah is located 1,500 feet off Marconi Beach in Wellfleet, Massachusetts and is under 20 feet to 30 feet of water (E.…

bipolar disorder and depression is communicated within her writing through her use of creativity, visceral language, and emotional rawness. Her inner turmoil can be interpreted in her brilliant and vehemence evoking poetry as well as her novel, The Bell Jar (Plath). Although in Plath’s time she was considered tortured, she is held in the highest esteem in today’s literary…

I’ve always loved reading, and throughout elementary school I would read obsessively. I made sure to read any chance I got. I’d read on the subway on the way from school and back, in class during free time, while walking down the street with my book in one hand and my father’s fingers in the other, and at home before bed. My favorite books (which I still have copies of in my bookcase) were The Trumpet of the Swan, Molly Moon’s Incredible Book of Hypnotism, The Phantom Tollbooth, The Witches…

Within civilizations there are many similarities and differences. Case in point, geography, social structure, political and governmental systems, economy, technology and culture. For example, Shang and Zhou China, and the Nile River valley. These two civilizations are filled with these types of differences. The geography of China varies differently of that of Egypt. Which in turn, led these independent civilizations to take different paths in culture and other aspects. China, for instance, has…

The Titanic was the “unsinkable” ship that sank and took the lives of 1,522 passengers and crew. The ship was widely believed to be the safest ever built at the time; however, the ship’s builders never said it was unsinkable. It was actually Shipbuilders magazine that described the ship as “practically unsinkable”. Though it has been over one-hundred years since the sinking of the Titanic, the story, which includes both heroes and villains, still enthralls us (Hutchings). The idea for the…

what to do if the assignment isn’t done before the class needs to move on to the next task (they slide unfinished work under their desk). When the class is going to be transitioning to another activity and she needs to give instruction she uses her bell. The students immediately ready for instruction. Ms. Vanneman’s classroom management is a distinct contrast to the Spanish teacher’s classroom management method. Rather than utilizing the methods that Ms. Vanneman already has in place the Spanish…

Although his name may not ring a bell, I’m sure his appearance will. You know that guy dancing alongside Lady Gaga in her Born this Way music video? That’s Genest. Except that scary Walking Dead-like ‘makeup’ on his face and body isn’t actually makeup. It’s tattoos. Having survived complex…

Finding a man to marry and submit to was no longer mandatory as seen in the protagonist of the novel the bell jar, “I will never get married” (Esther). As they were slowly incorporated into the working domain usually dominated by men, women shifted their priorities from being child bearing and being a housewife to earning an education and making money own their…

The best way to sum up the sixties is that it was an era with a multitude of ideological clashes. Americans were split on issues such as race, gender, and sexual orientation while the world was divided between Capitalism and Communism. These views can be found in American pop culture, especially literature. Themes such as gender equality, racial equality, anti-war sentiment, technological advancements, and religion can be found in literary pieces during the 1960s. On August 18, 1920, the 19th…

In December of 1959, Plath and Hughes returned to England. It is here where she gave birth to her first daughter, Frieda Hughes, and in the fall of 1960 she published “The Colossus and Other Poems” (Satterfield, 25). She finished her novel the “Bell Jar,” in 1961 and a year later, in January of 1962, gave birth to her first son, Nicholas Fararr Hughes (Shaw, 1985). In October of 1962, Plath found out that Hughes had been having an affair with another woman which led them to a divorce (Materer,…