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Unspoken Words Through an Ad: Chanel, “Coco Mademoiselle” and Tommy Hilfiger, “TH Bold” Wherever one looks barraged by an advertisement or marketing ads. Whether you are appreciating a day of shopping or heading to work, promotions encompass you. It appears we never get a break from this production. In addition, we see them so much we have developed resistance to their nearness. There are numerous approaches to publicize an item, and ordinarily the similarities are self-evident. Analyzing commercials

rebirthing and purifying bath rituals. Esther gorges herself during the banquet in attempts to satisfy her starvation, however this binge eventually leads to purging. Caroline J. Smith notes in “‘The Feeding of Young Women’: Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, Mademoiselle Magazine, and the Domestic Ideal” that “purging seems to be the necessary and inevitable result of [Esther’s] disordered eating” (16). The purging appears to emulate the same rebirthing and purification effect Esther feels after a hot bath: “I

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

published in Seventeen magazine when she was in high school and her poem, Bitter Strawberries, was published in “Christian Science Monitor”. (source 2) In 1950, she received a scholarship to Smith college. She won a position as guest editor of “Mademoiselle” when she was at the end of her junior year. (source 2) Even

In both Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, the female protagonist is portrayed as an artist who suffers from mental instability. Although the works were written over 60 years apart, The Awakening in 1889 and The Bell Jar in 1963, both novels were revolutionary for their times in terms of feminism, extramarital sex, and suicide. Both works explore the ways that females may temporarily escape, or attempt to escape, the confines of their own minds: the chains that lead them

2006: 396). Regardless of the success in her studies, Sylvia Plath suffered her first depression when she returned from her guest editorship in the Mademoiselle magazine (Stanley, 2006: 397). Linda Wagner-Martin explains that The Bell Jar depicts the “continuous decline into depression” which began when Plath was a guest editor in the Mademoiselle magazine (Wagner-Martin, 2003: 33). Connie Ann Kirk holds that the depression led to her first unsuccessful suicide attempt, which happened in August

In Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and Mirror, the protagonists, Esther Greenwood and Mirror’s unnamed narrator, search for an escape from reality due to their current unfulfilled lives. Esther becomes alienated by American society in the materialistic 1950s, whilst the woman in Mirror reveals her fear of old age, which haunts her every time she looks within the mirror. Sylvia Plath lived in an era where the image of women “[that] perpetuated throughout the 1950s was one of inequality” (Young, 10).

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”

"If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days" (Plath). Plath was in fact a schizophrenic, never really being cured and only receiving temporarily relief from her own mind with electroshock therapy. Her novel, The Bell Jar, is almost a self-biography with the veil of fiction over the story of Plath’s own life being so thin that her mother

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