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
or in a complex way. In order to translate difficult emotions and concepts, Plath uses creative metaphors to make readers deconstruct and understand the emotional turmoil of Esther Greenwood; the protagonist of the semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar. This was done predominantly by either subverting pre-existing traditional metaphor or by creating
Life Lessons from Winnie-the-Pooh What is it about Milne's Pooh Bear, Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger et al. that make them so lovable, intriguing, and permanent? It is because A.A. Milne was not just your garden-variety children’s story writer. Rather, he was a scholarly thinker (Marshall, 13). His iconic book, Winnie-the-Pooh, was first published on October 14, 1926, and there’s a reason it has retained its popularity for nearly a century. It has plenty of wisdom to offer adults and children alike about
Wharton, Plath and Gilman use the relationship between America’s middle-class idealization of the home and the popularity of the Gothic to distort the icon of the home, from a hub of warmth, joy and growth to a deeply disturbing brokenness that is reflective of the broken relationships within the home, challenging the false claims of the home as a safe, protected place. All three writers subtly link terror - the most important ingredient of the Gothic to acts of transgression, and show how the home