Sylvia Plath changed American literature with her only novel, the semi-autobiographical book, The Bell Jar; she worked her way into the hearts of both Europeans and Americans, without having the opportunity to celebrate her publicity after committing suicide in 1963, the same year of the book’s release in America. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath was a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel about Plath’s life and the struggles that she faced. The novel is regarded as one of Plath’s best works, as
phrase along the lines of “I’m losing my mind.” While used as more a figure of speech than as a confession of legitimate mental instability, this commonly used phrase expresses a shared belief amongst Western culture that stress and frustration may very well cause an individual to experience a mental break. Esther Greenwood, the protagonist living in the 1950s America of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, cracks under societal pressures to be the ideally docile, subservient, thoughtless woman, and becomes so
brushing of the waves from the sea to the brobdingnagian mountains that take days to hike. New England is also known for its phenomenal writers, artists and poets. Three well known are Ruth Moore who is a Writer, Rockwell Kent who is a artist, and Sylvia Plath who is a poet. All three are well known for there pieces of work that emphasize the angelic coastline of New England. They all demonstrate how the coastline effects the living and beauty of not only
Compare and contrast how Sylvia Plath, Charlotte Perkins-Gilman and Edith Wharton use the gothic genre to explore society’s darkest secrets During the Enlightenment, the Gothic came to the fore of literature. An effect of Enlightenment was the accessibility of books to the whole of society; they were ‘no longer the sole purview of aristocrats and wealthy merchants’ . Stephen Bruhm has said that the Gothic presents ‘a barometer of the anxieties plaguing a certain culture at a particular moment in
Zeena, initially lively, became increasingly lost to hypochondria and bouts of silence. The effect is to gradually make the reader feel just as oppressed as the main characters in the novel, we too have “been in Starkfield too many winters.” While Plath’s poetry is arguably a dark embodiment of America as the home and great power symbolic of America’s fight for independence which reflects her rejection of Patriarchy and the domestic through her writings. The first line of Lesbos, Plath positions the