mental health. College is supposed to be an unforgettable experience‚ yet for many students it comes in the form of depression. This onset depression may start before college‚ yet college has a great impact on the suicide rate of young adults. In The Bell Jar‚ written by Sylvia Plath‚ the main character‚ Esther Greenwood‚ struggles with suicidal depression on top of being a working college student‚ something Plath relates to entirely. Many people
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Author’s Purpose Sylvia Plath writes her autobiography The Bell Jar utilizing a smart protagonist‚ whose life is driven into depression by the deterioration of today’s society to familiarize her readers with suicide. Esther lives a perfect life‚ according to anyone looking at her on the surface. Esther continues to live her life in a fully coordinated “patent-leather” outfit from “Bloomingdale’s” while she sips “martinis” surrounded by “anonymous young men with all-American bone structures”‚ yet
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This is the extent to which her husband disregards her. This indifference of her husband whom she loves dearly‚ leads to her having physical relation with Joe. As in the case of The Bell Jar‚ in Surfacing too we have many mirror scenes. The various mirror scenes in the novel portrays the narrator’s distorted sense of self. She doesn’t have a positive self-image. She was very afraid of looking into the mirror. She felt that the dead were
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"The Bell Jar"‚ which is written by Sylvia Plath‚ indicates that patriarchal society has many effects on women. Men have power over women in both direct and indirect ways. In this paper‚ I would like to concern about Esther and patriarchy. Men use their power directly to oppress Esther. Also they use power indirectly to set up social values and sexual stereotyping which have many effects on Esther. To begin with men’s power that affects Esther directly‚ there is the issue of sexual discrimination
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Adolescence in the Bell Jar and Catcher in the Rye Adolescence in the Bell Jar and Catcher in the Rye Adolescence is the period between puberty and adulthood. Every teenager experience this moment in life differently some sail through happily to carry on with a peaceful life where as others are less fortunate and find that this moment is much more harder and stressful then they thought. Esther Greenwood and Holden Caulfield are one of the less fortunate and have bad experiences through their
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The Bell Jar: Character Analysis Many people suffer from depression‚ but do we do something about it? Many don’t know when someone is suffering from depression‚ and if they do‚ they don’t pay much attention or just ignore it and don’t know what to do to help the person. What happens when a person does not get any help? Sadly‚ many attempts to commit suicide and they succeed. But what makes a person take away their life? Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar” is an interesting classic story told in the 1950s
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Catcher and The Bell Jar " Two Coming of Age Novels While J.D. Salinger ’s The Catcher in the Rye and Sylvia Plath ’s The Bell Jar are two entirely different novels with different themes at first glance‚ both tell tales of teenagers who are coming of age and learning responsibility. In The Catcher in the Rye‚ Holden Caulfield has been kicked out of school and is trying to decide what he wants to do with his life. In The Bell Jar‚ Esther Greenwood tries to kill herself and is trying to figure out
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Woman today would find themselves lost in the times of the mid-1900’s society. Through the novel The Bell Jar‚ the reader will experience society’s expectations of women‚ their relationships with men‚ and how they follow right along with what the main character’s beliefs. The reader will learn to understand that there are punishments of society when one does not do what they should. The search for her identity and the acceptance of her truth has inspired women in future generations. Through the character
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Final Essay Through the feminist lens‚ equality‚ dehumanization‚ and stereotypes are seen within The Bell Jar‚ A Streetcar named desire‚ and A Farewell to Arms. The time period and author of each book are major reasons to why stereotypes are so strongly enforced. The time period of these novels 1940 to 1960’s was a time when women didn ’t have much status‚ men were superior and women were only housewives. Based on the gender‚ the author comes across these aspects differently by how they characterize
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the expectations of women have changed. During the 1950s‚ women had an extreme amount of pressure from society to be the "perfect" woman. In her novel‚ The Bell Jar‚ Sylvia Plath’s character Esther Greenwood is sent to a mental institution and later tries to commit suicide as a result of the societal pressures inflicted upon her. The Bell Jar was set in the northeastern United States during the 1950s. During this time period there was an expectation that women
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