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    The Bell Jar as a Controlling Image in The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar contains a constant reference to a bell jar that acts as a controlling image. The bell jar in the novel controls the novel in three ways. It acts as a symbol for the depression that Esther Greenwood‚ the central character‚ experiences. It also serves as a metaphor for her. Finally‚ it is the very illusion that drives her into depression. Esther Greenwood works for a fashion magazine in New York and lives a "dream

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    Research Paper: The Bell Jar‚ By: Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar is a work of fiction that spans a six month time period in the life of the protagonist and narrator‚ Esther Greenwood. The novel tells of Esther’s battle against her oppressive surroundings and her ever building madness‚ this is the central conflict throughout the narrative. After coming home from a month in New York as a guest editor for a magazine‚ Esther begins to have trouble with everyday activities such as reading‚

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    English 01A Silvia Plath’s The Bell Jar: A Book Review The Bell Jar is a semi-biographical novel of the life of Sylvia Plath‚ set in the 1950’s‚ the story follows the life of Esther Greenwood a college student from Massachusetts. Esther travels to New York with 11 other girls as guest editors for a magazine. In New York Esther battles with herself and social prejudices; she knows that she is in a seemingly ideal situation; however‚ she struggles with her ambitions of becoming a female writer in

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    Society often has its own rules and expectations a person should follow. Clearly stated in the novel‚ author of The Bell Jar‚ Sylvia Plath addresses societal influence by exposing social pressures on people‚ particularly women. Esther Greenwood‚ the main character of the novel‚ is the victim of the heavy weight of other people’s opinions; which in the end leads to her deteriorating mental instability. She attempts to live the life that is expected of her‚ but in the end she can not fulfill these

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    Isolation and Alienation in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar Kate Finnegan In Sylvia Plath’s modern novel‚ The Bell Jar‚ the main character Esther isolates and alienates herself throughout the book because she mentally ill. Because her descent into a deep depression is slow and she leads a productive life when the reader first meets her‚ this descent seems rational to the reader in the beginning. Esther has an artsy soul. She is a writer and dreamer. When she does not make it into the writing program

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    Identity In The Bell Jar

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    Unraveling Parallels In her modern classic‚ Sylvia Plath tells the story of a neurotic woman on the grip of insanity. The Bell Jar presents the atypical coming-of-age of the successful and magnetic Esther Greenwood. As her mental health declines‚ she longs to escape her cosmopolitan life through taking her own. Though Neurotic Poets recounts the biography of Sylvia Plath‚ The Bell Jar reveals a more personal struggle with clinical depression. Esther’s failure to recognize her self-importance reflects

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    Identity In The Bell Jar

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    A novel by Sylvia Plath named The Bell Jar which the main character Esther Greenwood struggles with finding her identity‚finding meaning with in her life and struggles with a terrible depression which causes her to fall into mental illness.The theme throughout the story is such a negative mind and full of madness . In the novel there’s the use of different elements to demonstrate the mental breakdown of Esther. For example in the novel there’s examples of metaphor‚simile and analogy that help highlight

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    The Bell Jar: Marriage and Children The Bell Jar written by Sylvia Plath portrays the complex and troubling ways of what it means to be a female in the 1950s in America. Throughout the novel‚ Esther reflects on how both men and women can be viewed and treated by society; how society expects them to act and what they must do. Most of Esther’s reflections pertain to marriage/motherhood‚ sex‚ and her career‚ her stance on the idea of womanhood comes across differently than the other female characters

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    Depression In The Bell Jar

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    Greenwood‚ in the novel; The Bell Jar‚ by Sylvia Plath‚ experiences several external and internal conflicts throughout the novel in the hope of discovering her true identity‚ the role she wants to play as a women in the 1950’s and the societal ‘Bell Jar’ that she’s expected to conform about. The following conflicts Esther Greenwood experiences within the novel are both internal (Person vs self)‚ and external with other characters in the novel (person

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    The Bell Jar Essay

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    In The Bell Jar‚ Esther Greenwood‚ a nineteen-year-old girl‚ gets to live in the big city under the big lights of New York. Going to parties without an ounce of apprehension. Without warning‚ one imperfect moment changes that outlook‚ and suddenly Esther distances herself from everything she had come to know. The constant pressure to be perfect had an anchor effect‚ dragging Esther deeper into the waters of her insecurities. No one else but her mother had noticed‚ but as time goes on Esther continues

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