Essays on The Bell Jar

Imagine living under the thumb of a man like Kim Jong Un or Adolf Hitler. Starvation, repression in expressing opinions or religion, and constant fear of war and nuclear disaster is apparent in the poor lives living under their direct control. This is the case…

This is similar to the bell jar as the sexual life of women has to impact the way they are viewed, but in contrast with one flew over the cuckoo’s nest, in the bell jar women who have an active sexual life outside of marriage…

I recently finished “The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath. I highly recommend this book for the purpose of recognition on topics such as: sanity and gender equality. I’ve listed below why you should and shouldn’t consider this novel. In the 1950’s Esther Greenwood works for…

The Bell Jar is a classic that explores the stigma of mental illness, sexism and the destructive mental health system of the 1950s. The Bell Jar concerns a young, successful woman’s eventual breakdown and suicide attempt, it tells a story of recovery, redemption, struggle, and…

About the Author Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932, in Boston, Massachusetts. She was a dynamic American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. Her writing was known to comprise of “elemental forces and primeval fears, also focusing on some of the tensions hovering just…

Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, published in 1963, is a Roman a Clef written in the first-person perspective of Esther Greenwood, a young woman who is in a downward spiral that ends in an attempted suicide and her challenge to regain sanity. The writing of…

“Society is more interested in controlling women than emancipating them” Examine to the extent you agree that this is the case in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper and Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. Both Sylvia Plath and Charlotte Perkins Gilman were female authors widely…

One of the most prevalent themes in “The Bell Jar” is a fear of death. The novel as a whole, and Chapter 13 in particular, is filled with strong imagery that points to this omnipresent fear. This theme is evident from the very first page,…

Deterioration: The Reversed Bildungsroman The Bell Jar is a subtle replica of Sylvia Plath’s own life where she manipulates the elements of an autobiography to essentially recreate her own events leading up to her own suicide. Plath views the world from a feminist standpoint in…