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Esther was the main character in the novel the Bell Jar. Esther faced multiple challenges throughout her life and tried many ways to overcome them. Sylvia Plath is Esther. Sylvia Plath’s most popular written novel The Bell Jar creates a theme of someone being viewed as successful but, struggling with their internal feelings. Esther dealt with many problems through her years being in a great writing business. Though there were many lessons learned in this novel there were many that the main character

having babies as a benefit in helping them grow into a mother, teacher, and a role model. It helps shape them into a more independent and stronger woman and motivates them to get back up when they are feeling low. Esther Greenwood, from the book Bell Jar, written by Sylvia Plath, deals with many societal pressure problems for being a woman. The expectations for her were not met because she wants to go out of the societal norms and does what she wants. It is not easy for her to get out of her shell and

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

Sylvia Plath was an American author and poet. Her death at the age of 30 by suicide was the end of her long struggle with mental illness throughout her life, chronicled in her most famous work, her fictional, but inspired by her life novel, The Bell Jar, cited for its feminist themes and exploration of mental illness. Plath is considered one of the greatest poets and novelists of the 20th century, whose works were influenced by her mental illnesses, and still have relevance today. Sylvia Plath was

“I felt surprisingly at peace. The bell jar hung, suspended, a few feet above my head. I was open to the circulating air” (Plath) Esther Greenwood is a character that goes through a journey of mental illness. Towards the end of the book in chapter eighteen, Esther is still in the psychiatric hospital, and she was just woken with her doctor, Dr. Nolan by her side. Dr. Nolan then led Esther outside to get some air. The theme of innocence in Esther’s life is what keeps her young and full of life, and

Sylvia Plath’s writing chronicled a wide variety of subjects; from a descent into mental illness in The Bell Jar to doomed hospitals in the titular short story Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams. She was married to Ted Hughes and had two children with him before he left her and she committed suicide in 1963. Her works shared some common elements that were based on experiences from her own life. Discussions of depression, sexuality, and feminism were prevalent in her writing and were directly inspired

According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, the definition of the word “bell jar” is, “a bell-shaped usually glass vessel designed to contain objects or preserve gases and or a vacuum”. Sylvia Plath’s title, The Bell Jar, symbolically represents her feeling towards the seclusion and inferiority women endured trapped by societes glass vessel during the 1950’s. The Bell Jar, follows the life of Esther Greenwood, the protagonist and narrator of the story, during her desperate attempt to become a woman

In the novel The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath different characters are presented to the reader. Each character has an effect towards Esther in a certain way. The characters Mrs. Greenwood, Buddy Willard, and the Protagonist Esther Greenwood all play a huge part in the novel. First of all, Mrs. Greenwood Esther's mother mostly stays in the background of the novel. Esther really does not describe her as much. But, despite of her invisibility Mrs. Greenwood pervades in Esther’s mind. She subscribes to society’s

partner forever and always. Yet men are allowed to rampant on other women and their wives just let it happen because it is seen as a normal thing in the 1950’s but heaven forbid a woman tries to see other men that women would be mocked. In The Bell Jar Esther is cheated on by her boyfriend and she responsibly breaks it off but still has small feelings for the man. This book shows very well how the women are clearly stately or inferior to men and the men are morally weak. In the beginning of the novel

Compare and Contrast: “The Bell Jar” and “Daddy” Literature and art, in general, can convey very strong, powerful feelings and provide emotional relief for the artist. Although Sylvia Plath likely meant for her works to be interpreted as simple fiction they are littered with autobiographical details. The characters are not meant to be herself, still, what she writes about the mental condition and feelings of the narrators are proven to be her personal thoughts, evidenced by the events of her life