The plot took place in New York where Esther and twelve other women who won a prize to live in New York for fashion. She soon realize that fashion isn't her thing. Esther is from a small town in Boston where she lives with her mother, (her father died when she was young) Her Family is very poor, but fortuantly she has a friend name Doreen whose into fashion also. Doreen and Esther went to a bar and sooner or later, Esther ends up getting drunk and walking home alone. Later that night, Doreen told Esther that she didn't want to be apart of her life anymore, so their friendship ended that night.
Esther's supervisor tries to encourage her to try harder, but Esther finds it impossible to do very much. Esther wanted to graduate school, become a professor who also writes poetry, but she no longer care. She knows she wanted to become a write but she find it difficult to do. On top of that, Esther is also in conflict over her relation to men. She has been dating one man from her hometown, Buddy Willard, but no longer even likes him. She feels the need to be with men, but gets little pleasure from them and feels as if no one really sees her for who she is. .
The rising action happened when her blind date tried to rape her, but she manage to escape. Her time of depression had begun, she returned to the Amazon hotel and threw away her outfit on of the roof. .
Back home with her mother, Esther lacked summer jobs and schools. She applied for a writing seminar but she was rejected. She wanted to write novels but she didn't have enough perseverance to do so. Her mother urges her to learn shorthand, but Esther hates the idea of serving a man in any capacity. The climax starts as Esther becomes more and more depressed as the days go by. She stops sleeping and finds that she can neither read nor write. Her family doctor sends her to a psychiatrist who gives her outpatient shock therapy. The session traumatizes Esther and pushes her further into a search for a solution.
Esther, once out of the bell jar, experiences reality. ... Once Esther has freed herself from the bell jar she feels renewed. ... However, she is still oppressed by the threatening nature of the bell jar. ... The bell jar hung, suspended, a few feet above my head. ... The bell jar still hangs over her head. ...
The "bell jar" is a metaphor for the alienation, isolation and confinement that Esther experiences during her mental breakdown. ... During a month in New York, Esther's bell jar descends as her sense of alienation and isolation are overpowering her. ... To Esther, "the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream" (237). ... How did I know that someday ... the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again (241). Will Esther be able to withstand another descent of the bell jar? ...
Sylvia Plath uses the motif "the bell jar" to illustrate the effect of society on Esther. As mentioned earlier, societal pressure incarcerates and suffocates Esther forming a bell jar around her. "The air of the bell jar wadded around me and I couldn't stir." The bell jar represents society's expectations and pressures, which leads her to become mentally instable and suicidal. ... "I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air." ...
This is the question that troubles Esther Greenwood in Sylvia Plath's novel "The Bell Jar." ... In the novel "The Bell Jar," Sylvia Plath's style requests her readers to look inside the distraught mind of Ms. ... Once again Pat Macpherson's, reflecting on "The Bell Jar" states that Esther's suicide attempt becomes an act of retaliation against suburbia (1). ... In Stephanie Tsanks, "The Bell Jar: A Psychological Case Study," states the bell jar as a symbol of society's stifling constraints and befuddling mixed messages that trap Sylvia Plath's heroine, Esther Gree...
Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar is an autobiographical account of the author's mental breakdown and suicide attempt as a young woman. ... Robert Taubman drew this conclusion about the significance of the viewpoint Miss Plath chose to write in: It [The Bell Jar] reads so much like the truth it is hard to disassociate her from Esther Greenwood, the "I" of the story, but she has the gift of being able to feel and yet watch herself: she can feel the desolation and yet relate it to everyday life (345). ... This is stated in The Bell Jar when she says: "A girl lives in some out-of-t...
Death of a Salesman and The Bell Jar Mythology defines the basis of literature today, while it has shaped writings of all kinds for thousands of years. ... "The air of the bell jar wadded around me and I couldn't stir" (Bell 186) While Esther is enclosed in the asylum and Biff returns to his house of lies they are both descending into the underworld. ... (Bell 237). ... (Bell 243) Esther is emerging from the underworld, but she is still unsure of herself. ...
Sylvia Plath in her autobiographical story The Bell Jar narrates to the audience the life-story of a girl, Esther Greenwood. ... In Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar the norm of how a 19th century woman should be is represented by Mrs. ... Plath in The Bell Jar explores the woman in the 1950s; indeed, she writes about the 1900s feminism. ... Nolan - she wonders, "How did I know that someday the bell jar with its stifling distortions wouldn't descend again?" ... We can say that the title - The Bell Jar - represents the society that traps and marginalizes women. ...
In Sylvia Plath's, "The Bell Jar," the theme of identity is a recurring topic. ... Early in "The Bell Jar," Sylvia Plath makes it increasingly clear that Esther Greenwood is mentally unstable. ... Finally after being trapped in a hypothetical bell jar throughout the whole book, the glass is finally lifted and Esther finally feels like she is on the right track and on the road to recovery. ...
