The mental breakdown and insanity of women in both âThe Yellow Wallpaperâ by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and âThe Bell Jarâ by Sylvia Plath are portrayed in numerous different ways. The Yellow Wallpaper introduces the reader of a nameless womanâs progressive mental breakdown from postpartum depression after giving birth and this provides the reader an opening into the perception and treatment...
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Happiness: a complex limitation. Something Sylvia Plath struggled to achieve her entire life and incorporated into her novel The Bell Jar. As we read, we go into the depths of her life and how sexism, a lack of moral support, and her constant feelings of failure cause her to slowly fall into a deep state of depression that dominates her...
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The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath hounds Esther Greenwood who spends the summer of 1953, âthe summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergsâ away from hometown Massachusetts, sent off to intern in New York at a reputable fashion magazine with eleven other lucky girls. She is meant to have the time of her life, be the envy of thousands of college girls...
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Freedom is always an interesting and important topic. In the United State, every citizen is supposed to be free. According to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, citizens have many rights such as freedom to express yourself, right to vote in elections for public officials, and freedom to pursue 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness'. In this analytical paper,...
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Sylvia Plath is an American writer and poet. She did not live an exciting life as others will think. In fact, it was quite the opposite. She had struggled with depression and mental illness throughout various points in her lifetime. Her life influence her works with themes, such as self identity and female roles. It indicates how mental illness can...
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It would be fallacious to suggest that the latter half of the twentieth century was anything less than revolutionary as the American literary sphere was marked by various social uprisings that sought to weave nationwide equality into the fabric of mainstream society. Aside from being the cornerstone for a profound cultural shift among the general populace, American literature during the...
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Author of The Female Malady, Elaine Showalter, suggests that âwomen have been labelled mad because mental illness has been defined and codified by male psychiatristsâ. Depictions of female âhysteriaâ in texts such as Sylvia Plathâs The Bell Jar and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper have notoriously been interpreted as the embodiment of deviance within a patriarchal hierarchy. Whilst The...
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Throughout the entirety of both novels, characters are faced with physical and psychological manifestations of entrapment, from which the everlasting effects transcend beyond the point of their liberation. Whether itâs from Maâs heart-breaking journey to escape her physical imprisonment in âRoomâ or Esther Greenwoodâs painful course to reclaim her independence after mentally trapping herself in âThe Bell Jarâ, both share...
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Published in London one year before the author committed suicide, The Bell Jar, is a semi-autobiographical look inside a year in the life of a young women dealing with depression. With some of the names of places and people changed, the author, Sylvia Plath chronicles her life at age twenty through the character Esther. Esther is a poet who tries...
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The novel the Bell Jar was published before Sylvia Plath committed her forth suicide, which was successful eventually. As the only full-length novel she left on the world, some of its features such as the nature of autobiography, extreme theme and feminist philosophy have continuously attracted the attention of its readers and scholars all around the world. As a female...
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Breakdown and madness is one of the most noteworthy themes explored by J.D Salinger and Sylvia Plath in their confessional, bildungsroman novels âThe Catcher in the Ryeâ (1951) and âThe Bell Jarâ (1963.) As âThe Bell Jarâ was heavily influenced by âThe Catcher in the Ryeâ many similarities can be drawn between them, as Robyn Marsack says; âEsther is the...
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