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Forough Farrokhzad was an Iranian poet who experienced ups and downs of life and grew up with her poems. She was born in 1935 in Tehran. She was really into Persian literature, so she began writing ghazals as she was a high school student. She got married after finishing High School and published her first verse, called The Captive in 1955. After that, Forough got divorced and a year later her second collection of poems, the wall, which was dedicated to her ex-husband was public. By the time she

her eyes, no sense of the person behind it… At the girl's throat was a necklace of human tongues … Just for a moment the girl looked at Mark Fossie with something close to contempt” (O’brien 105). From the introduction of her character, Mary Anne Bell, seemed like the typical American girl, but that changed within time. Her character at first was flat and dull; she behaved in the way any “girl next door” type would. Coming to Vietnam to her was like a little trip to visit her boyfriend, not knowing

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”This quote by John F. Kennedy illustrates that by conforming to society, is being imprisoned to society and that if a person is conforming, they, as an individual, will never grow. In The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, the protagonist, Esther Greenwood feels pressure to be a housewife and be like every other women at that time period, all the while not having the option to be independent and encounters oppressive men throughout the story. She

Throughout The Bell Jar and The Color Purple both women are subjected to societal constructs that dictate the course of their lives. Although Celie and Ester come from different experiences and upbringings, they both endure the restricted freedoms, frustration, cruelty and violence that have been thrust upon women throughout history. In The Bell Jar Esther uses the fig tree story as a metaphor for her life. The fig tree and the figs upon it represent the opportunities and paths Esther's life could

Sylvia Plath’s novel The Bell Jar is an anti-coming of age novel. Plath’s novel focuses on Esther Greenwood a young college student on the cusp of adulthood. At the beginning of The Bell Jar, Esther is a young girl and relatively innocent compared to the world she’ll soon find herself in. Esther goes through all the usual rites that signify a young woman coming of age, college, marriage proposal etc. Ultimately however these experiences and the pressures they put on Esther break and permanently

Annotated Bibliography Bonds, Diane S. “The Separate Self in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar.” from “Women’s Studies”, Vol 18, No. 1, (May 1990), pp 49-64. Gale Research, 1999. Literature Resources from Gale. Web. 28 Sept. 2014. According to Bonds, Esther fails to establish an autonomous, or separate self, and ultimately resorts to “culturally-ingrained stereotypes of women.” Bonds notes that in the first part of Plath’s novel, both the commitment

In the beginning of "The Bell Jar" it explains that although this girl named Esther shows great promise and is very ambitious, she also shows great doubt in her abilities to achieve her goals. The doubt she feels in her abilities isn't made much better, as cultural pressure and popular belief of what character for all women must be takes its toll on her. After her boss scolds her for not knowing what she wants to do, Esther goes on a few dates. The last date she goes on ends with her date trying

The Bell Jar and Its Affiliates Frequently, a writer will express the same symbols and themes in a variety of their works. This is the case with Sylvia Plath, who not only wrote a multitude of poems, but also wrote the renowned novel, The Bell Jar. Three of Plath’s poems that share similar elements to her novel are “Lorelei”, “Daddy”, and “The Applicant”. These ideas include death beckoning the characters, an unstable family unit, and sexism towards women. The poems “Lorelei”, “Daddy”, and “The Applicant”

Always do everything you do to the best of your abilities, never settle for anything you do not reaching its potential, and most importantly, remember you are portrayed through your work. Once I heard the bell ring, I got up from my seat, and saw Mrs. Tinker approach me with my work from the previous day in her hand. “What could I have possibly done? Am I really in trouble, or is it just me making something out of nothing.” I ask myself. I start to get really anxious and nervous about the situation

literature novel. These books, Plath’s The Bell Jar and Lowry’s The Giver, both received a literary award, although they were published three decades apart. There were more similarities and differences between the books, however. The Bell Jar and The Giver, had many similarities and differences, including subjects on themes, characters, settings, plots, and literary techniques. To start off, The Bell Jar and The Giver had contrasting themes. The theme in The Bell Jar was to not expect too much from someone