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story, Esther Greenwood considers and attempts suicide quite frequently. Could this novel have been foreshadowing Sylvia’s death, which took place a little less than a month after? Esther Greenwood was a scholarship student attending an all-women’s college in New York. While in school, she wrote for a women’s magazine under the supervision of her editor

she wants to get birth control, even though this novel is set during a time where birth control is not so common. On the same topic, Esther also almost gets raped by a man named Marco on the last night in the city. Esther also gets betrayed by her college boyfriend, Buddy during the novel who had sexual relations with another woman while dating Esther. With this said, Esther just wanted to have sex with someone afterwards. After these scenes, as well as others that will be mentioned shortly, Esther

that of a newborn infant; this common literary motif of transforming into the unknown for the better pinpoints Esther during her troubled hours. After a turbulent period of questionable shock treatments, Esther seems to have entered a “cured state” (Smith Bundzten, 35). Esther is, in a sense, reborn again. She is “born twice--patched, retreaded, and approved for the road” (Plath, 244). Her experiences have allowed to become stronger and gain stability

were very young, but Plath had an extremely troubled relationship with him whereas Esther did not. The contrast makes it seem like Plath wished her father had made her happy and gave her love. As they grew older, both women won scholarships to Smith College and later took a job as a magazine editor for a prestigious fashion magazine. The likeness between the two is very pleasant until the book takes a darker

father’s death, Plath wrote her first poem (“Poetry”). In the years following this trauma, she continued to develop her writing and had poems published in magazines such as Christian Science Monitor and Seventeen (Greiner 164). Sylvia Plath attended Smith College and received an internship at Mademoiselle Magazine (“Poetry”). After Plath returned from the internship, she slipped into depression and made a suicide attempt (Greiner 164). Plath met Ted Hughes while she was studying in Cambridge on a Fulbright

depression” and miss the hidden deep meaning behind it all. Sylvia Plath was born in Boston,Massachusetts in October, 1932. Sylvia was a top tier student that got accepted into University of Smith. “When Sylvia graduated she was second in her high school class.”("Neurotic Poets." - Sylvia Plath. )While Sylvia was in college she also had a summer job as a guest managing editor, but she suffered nervous breakdown and

"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

includes flashbacks and memories in the story. At a young age she loses her father and in result there is no insurance left for her and her mother. She ends up being raised in a middle class lifestyle in Massachusetts. As she matures she goes to Smith College and gets a great internship for a woman's magazine in New York. She faces a societal expectation of being “pure” before marriage. Esther is indecisive when it comes to having kids or becoming a mother. During

Retreat and Recovery in The Bell Jar: A Stylistic Analysis of Fragmentation and Characterization Mahmoud Reza Ghorban Sabbagh Assistant Professor in English Literature Fahimeh Bozorgian M.A. Student in English Literature Department of English Literature and Languages Ferdowsi University of Mashhad Abstract In a story, the particular way a character uses language sheds light on her understanding of herself and the world around her because language is the vessel for meaning making and the

Did you ever think that a student who excelled in school and appeared fine on the surface would have severe depression and not only end up dying from that cause, but also one of her main inspirations behind her successful poems? Sylvia Plath was one of the most admired poets of the twentieth century. As a young girl she did great in school, although she did repeat fifth grade to be the same age as her fellow classmates, Plath had gotten straight A’s and excelled in English, specifically creative