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The main character in Susanna Kaysen’s, “Girl, Interrupted” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s, “The Yellow Wallpaper” are similar in the fact that they both were suppressed by male dominants. Be it therapist or physicians who either aided in their mental deformities or created them. They are similar in the sense that they are both restricted to confinement and must endure life under the watchful eye of overseers. However similar their situations may be, their responses are different.      In

decision for her to go to McLean Hospital was based on a twenty minute conversation with a psychiatrist. Kaysen had been picking at her acne and been acting out in ways which would not be considered unusual for teens today, but at the time it was a sufficient excuse for commitment to an institution. In an interview, Kaysen further develops the idea that her illness was influenced by outside factors saying, “ [Her] retrospective account of her confinement at McLean Hospital makes a cultural intervention

members about topics regarding McLean Hospital and the medical field of mental health. I comprehended the proper administration of eight medicines applied in the pre-hospital setting authorized for EMT-Basic by a medical director and mastered seven pre-hospital life-saving skills, including the cardiopulmonary resuscitation and trauma assessment. Throughout the course, I interacted with fellow students in several simulated scenarios, including numerous hypothetical pre-hospital situations. At age ten

Ever since her suicide Sylvia Plath has become a well-known female author, her most famous piece of work being The Bell Jar. While the book has rose in popularity many argue that the sum of the reputation that the book holds is because of the story behind the author, and her own suicide. Yet, those who argue this fail to see how Plath is a revolutionary author for her time, through this piece of writing. The success of The Bell Jar is not held accountable to Plath’s suicide but on her actual writing

How does the author's treatment of relationships effect the characterisation of the heroines in The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath and Quicksand by Nella Larsen? Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know ============================== How does the author's treatment of relationships effect the characterisation of the heroines in "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath and "Quicksand" by Nella Larsen? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This essay will compare the ways in

The Bell Jar People's lives are shaped through their success and failure in their personal relationships with each other. The author Sylvia Plath demonstrates this in the novel, The Bell Jar. This is the direct result of the loss of support from a loved one, the lack of support and encouragement, and lack of self confidence and insecurity in Esther's life in the The Bell Jar. It was shaped through her success and failures in her personal relationships between others and herself. Through

Depression is like drowning in a pool of water and there is absolutely no escape from it. In The Bell Jar, written by Sylvia Plath, the main character, Esther Greenwood goes through the awful troubling depths of depression. The Bell Jar goes back in time beginning in the summer of 1953 and follows the story of Esther Greenwood. Esther should be having the time of her life having won an internship in New York City, but the unfortunate truth is that she is slowly falling further into a deep depression

The novel ‘The Bell Jar’ written by Sylvia Plath and the film “Me Before You” directed by Thea Sharrock both explore the idea of isolation. Both the author and director use various techniques in their texts to position the audience to understand that isolation makes a person withdraw from life and therefore leads to their downfall. Techniques such as symbolism, motif, imagery, simile and visual and literary techniques allow the author and director to deliver the message. Plath and Sharrock actively

The stereotypical survivor could be described as someone who endured grueling physical obstacles, survived and returned to normal life, and developed as a person since then. Sylvia Plath does not fit the typical template of a survivor; she did not physically survive. However, the emotional and mental stress she withstood the ten years prior to her suicide made her just as much of a survivor as anyone who lived to tell their story. Although Plath eventually crumbled under the weight of her deteriorating

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”