Relationship Between Adar And Herman

The relationship gains the approval of both of the individuals parents and many expect them to settle down and start a family. While finding a life partner is what society of the time deemed a success for a woman, Esther resented Buddy's expectation of her to simply distance herself from her desire to be a poet and become a mother. “I also remembered Buddy Willard saying in a sinister, knowing way that after I had children I would feel differently, I wouldn't want to write poems any more. So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about numb as a slave in some private, totalitarian state.” (Plath The Bell Jar). Buddy’s views become clear to Esther and lead her to finally decide that she is not willing to subside to them. Esther isn’t willing to let go of her creativity in exchange for motherhood, however she feels that she in unable to proclaim this as Buddy’s views correlate with those of her society. Her first escape from alienation, her first feelings of liberation from Buddy Willard and his views are illustrated when Esther asks her trusty doctor, Dr. Nolan to go for a ‘’fitting’’. Esther feels free as she climbs up onto the examination table: she feels both mentally and physically prepared to take on Buddy. Unfortunately, “Ever since I’d learned about

Well the holidays are over, and I feel that they were a great success. I would like to thank Rabbi Hal and our Hazzans, Ron Fink, Mayer Grob, Sheila Pour, and Art Todras for wonderful services, but without the following people helping in someway, we could not have had these services: Iris Petersiel, Michael Kornstein, Sam Richardson, Fran Todras, Daniel Elmakis, Deb Lebman, Ellen Bernstein, Marilyn Wiener, Sonya Brockstein, Michael Schoenhaut, Barry Green, Diane Girgente and her ushers, Al Sherman, Craig Hammons, Jeremy & Isabel Schlussel, Tomomi Rubin, Larry Feldman, Jeff Scharf, Lori Shiffman, Philip Perschetz, Elizabeth Harper, Bruce Nordin, Matt Nordin, Tom McClish, and Michael Yetsin

Aunt esther struggled with trying to work with michael. In paragraph number 5 “She said you hate it here,” “she said and you hate me.” it means that Michael and aunt esther don’t get along together and it matters because they don’t like each other and in the end they were hugging. Aunt esther in the beginning was mad at michael but she was very loyal to her sister, that is why she brought him in. Aunt esther was always on the phone and she always talked to her friend. Aunt esther tried to work with michael but he would not work

While at home, Esther becomes into a deep depression when thinking about her experience in New York. She doesn’t want to read, write, or sleep and she stops bathing herself. Her mother sends her to see Dr. Gordon who is her first psychiatrist whom she doesn’t like and doesn’t trust. He is the man with a good looking family, and to Esther he is conceited. He doesn’t help Esther, but only hurts her more. He prescribes her with shock treatment. After this horrifying experience, she decides to kill herself. She tries to slit her wrists, but can only bring herself to slicing her calf. She tries to hang herself but can’t find a place to tie the rope, she tries to drown herself at the beach, but cannot keep herself under water, and then she crawls into a space in the basement and takes a lot of sleeping pills. “Wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.” (Plath pg. 117) This quote shows how she felt trapped in the bell jar, and her suicidal urges began. She awakes in the hospital to find that her attempt at suicide wasn’t successful. She is sent to another psychological ward where she still wants to end her life. Esther becomes very paranoid and uncooperative. She gets moves to a private hospital paid for by Philomena Guinea a famous novelist. Esther improves and gets a new

Writing was Esther’s passion, yet she stopped completely when she thought that she did not have the proper life experience to be able to write well. This becomes evident when she says, “I needed experience. How could I write about a life when I’d never had a love affair or a baby or even seen anybody die?” (Plath 109). Esther feels guilty and unqualified to write about anything that she has not previously experienced.

One thing she wanted to control more than anything was her future. The book starts off with Esther at an internship program in New York City. She is working under Jay Cee, the editor of the magazine she is interning for. Jay Cee is smart and Esther looks up to her because she can "read a couple of languages and knew all the quality writers" (Plath 6) unlike the other women in New York who were "simply [hanging] around New York waiting to get married to some career man" (Plath 4). "Getting married right out of high school or while in college was considered the norm."

Another common aspect of both the women’s lives is that they both dated Buddy Willard. When Esther began to have a relationship with Buddy, she thought that her relationship with him could go somewhere, that he could possibly be her husband one day. When she is in his room one night, they are talking and having wine, and Esther asks Buddy if he has ever had an “affair”. She expects him to say “no”, but he says, “Well, yes I have” (70). This is shocking to Esther. She thought Buddy was innocent, but he had been pretending the whole time. She tells Buddy to tell her about it, so he doesn’t think it bothered her that he said “yes”. He tells her that while working at this hotel in Cape Cod for the summer, one of the waitresses seduced him, and that’s how he lost his virginity. Esther and Buddy eventually part, but she doesn’t break up with him because he had slept with the waitress, it was the fact that he didn’t

Esther evidently feels as if she is constantly being judged and tested, although in fact she is not. Her magnified sense of distrust is illustrated repeatedly throughout the course of the book, at once involving the reader and developing her own characteristic response to unique situations. Finally, one who views occurrences which can only be categorized as coincidental as being planned often experiences a suspicious response. When she finds out that an acquaintance from high school is at the same hospital, her first reaction is wariness: "It occurred to me that Joan, hearing where I was, had engaged the room at the asylum on pretence, simply as a joke." (Plath 207). Although the reader is incredulous of the protagonist's manner of thought, it is also possible to feel a connection to the situation. Such a

The events in New York introduce us to the beginning of Esther’s psychological transformation. The story first inaugurates with the

The author describes Esther as a ten-year-old girl that is the middle child in her family. She would wear a lacey dress and her lucky ribbon in her hair. Her long, brown, flowing hair is like coffee. After she couldn’t see the board in front of the class she got glasses. The glasses match her green eyes which are as green as grass. Esther would always get her sister's hand-me-down, down old, and rugged shoes. Her family was poor so she didn't always get much.

Esther’s mother and society’s expectation as a woman, which is to be a good wife and a mother, suffocate and demoralize Esther’s dream as a professional writer. Esther’s mother wants her to “...learn shorthand after college, so I’d have a practical skill as well as a college degree” (Plath 40). Her mother believes that Esther cannot further advance her education as a writer and simply wants her to be a secretary since professional career for women was uncommon and discouraged because it disturbs the role as a married woman. These pressures often obliged her to fall into the societal expectations, to give up her higher education, and to marry somebody. However, she knew that the marriage and the babies were not for her, “because cook and clean and wash were just about

1. Esther really enjoyed reading so when a collection of short stories was gifted to her she was very pleased, and instantly connects with a story about a Jewish man and a Catholic nun who meet under a fig tree. Their relationship is not prosperous, just as she feels her relationship with Buddy is horrible also. The symbolism of the fig tree has to do with different lives, Ester can only choose one but, she wants them all. “I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story” (Plath 77). When she imagines the fig tree again later on, she sees it as an image of all of the things she could be, but won't because she's paralyzed with indecision.

As humans, we always sin once in a while. It’s in our nature to sin but who would redeem us from all these sins? Do we need someone or something to help us out with the battle against sin? In Christianity, Jesus seems to be the person who eliminates sins for us but did he really have to die? Anselm of Canterbury would agree to Jesus’ death being a necessity while Abelard was the opposite. From the two views, Abelard seems more compelling for many reasons. But I also believe that Jesus’ death was necessary but only for original sin.

Esther, living at Treby, .frustrated in her desire for social advancement comes under the influence of Felix Holt. Her horizon expands and she begins to feel that if Felix Holt loves her, her life would be exalted into a sort of new blessedness, such as one may imagine in beings who are conscious of painfully growing into the possession of higher power. She sees him as the means of checking her pettiness with the suggestion of a wider

In Spite of The Bell Jar, Esther searches consistently for some kind of identity but finds her options limited as a young woman with little money of her own. After a disappointing summer as a guest editor in New York City, she fails to be accepted into a prestigious writing course and gradually loses much of her sanity and ambition. She mentally explores many wild scenarios for happiness and fulfillment (e.g., apprenticing herself to a pottery maker, finding a European lover), tries to write a novel, does such bizarre things as wearing her mother's clothes and eating raw meat, and finally attempts suicide.