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I did my article summary on a Ted Talk by relationship therapist Esther Perel called “Why Happy Couples Cheat.” Esther Perel works specifically with couples that have experienced infidelity, and she explains that infidelity is extremely common and yet so misunderstood. She talks a lot about past and present views of monogamy stating that monogamy used to be one person for life, while today it seems to mean one person at a time. She says that in earlier years monogamy had nothing to do with love

symbolise that Esther is gripped by the insanity in her mind that is inescapable, compelling her to disengage from those around her and causes her loneliness. Plath explored this further [VB1] as Esther became isolated through her mental breakdowns as during these periods she did not want to get out of bed as the “air of the bell jar wadded around her.” She would be sitting alienated “under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.” Demonstrating to the audience that although Esther can view

specifically with the characters of Magawisca, the Native American slave with the will of a lioness, Everell Fletcher, the handsome much wanted white male protagonist, Hope Leslie, a strong headed young woman who symbolizes modernism in the piece and Esther Downing, Hope Leslie’s literary foil. Through the

about a young woman named Esther, living in New York City for a one month internship, who is lost and depressed in her world, feeling like no one understands her. The book’s writing techniques include imitating personal events Plath went through. One example of this is in the quote, “ “I hate her”, I said, and waited for the blow to fall.”. That moment where Esther confided in her doctor this was a symbol of Sylvia Plath’s hatred of her mother, Aurelia Plath. Esther had a horrible relationship

with Buddy Willard. As the historical context implies Esther lives in a male-dominated world ruled by double standards, which is the source that drives Esther away from Buddy and essentially all men by the end of the novel. What pains Esther is that Buddy is a hypocrite and that she is, initially, unaware of it. When she first meets him, she adores him from a distance for five years, but soon realises that he is an “awful hypocrite” (49). Esther is unsettled by Buddy’s desire to marry her, and later

LeBouef 1 Breana LeBouef Mrs. Smith English III 9 November 2014 The Bell Jar: Literary Analysis With Author Biography Sylvia Plath is a renowned poet and author. She fantasied the world with her powerful writings. Beloved to the world, she truly changed women 's status. She wrote distinctively from her own life experiences. This is cleared showed in her book, The Bell Jar. This book offers a theme of rebirth and a theme of feminism. The 27th of October in 1932, Sylvia Plath was born

Esther Greenwood suffered through multiple difficult times that wore down on her mental state. She fell sick from food poisoning, was electrocuted through shock therapy, and underwent dangerous suicidal thoughts. Each time when she persevered through the pain, she emerged a stronger, newly-born person. In The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath uses plot development and characterization to illustrate that often times, painful experiences are necessary for a person to progress in life. Although Esther felt awful

deepest of stains. In The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath looms over the idea of suffering and how purity equals perfection, though any iniquities can be remedied with a simple fixture of water. Esther views water as being a sacrosanct object that can be used as an oasis from suffering and a cleansing towards corruption. Esther faces many variables that taint her idea of purity, and her way of coping with these obstacles can be from inflicting pain to the point where she must suffer for her imperfections in

information and data has been, and will always be practiced by authors for the simple fact that they too, would like to have some sort of control over their what their readers know about them. In “The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath, the main character, Esther, a girl who is based on Plath herself, finds herself struggling with depression and anxiety and plans to take her own life several times but can never follow through. Plath modified biographical details because she wanted to simplify the material

brilliantly written protagonist, Esther Greenwood, Plath now has the ability to express many of the things she felt and event she experienced through a new light. Perhaps it was easier to shed these feelings onto another person instead of herself, or maybe Plath figured people would be more understanding of a “flawed” fictional character. Whatever her reason for this semiautobiography, there is no doubt that it paints a true reality.