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1 de jan. de 1971 · The bell jar, a metaphor for Esther's suffocating mental state, looms over her, trapping her in a world of darkness and despair. Through Esther's eyes, Plath exposes the hypocrisy and shallowness of the world around her, as she struggles to find her voice amidst the cacophony of societal expectations.
- Sylvia Plath
21 de out. de 2021 · THE BELL JAR by Sylvia Plath | Review first published April 11, 1971. “The Bell Jar” is a novel about the events of Sylvia Plath’s 20th year: about how she tried to die, and how they stuck ...
Sylvia Plath. Harper & Row, 1971 - Fiction - 296 pages. The Bell Jar is a classic of American literature, with over two million copies sold in this country. This extraordinary work chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful - but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time.
A vulnerable young girl wins a dream assignment on a big-time New York fashion magazine and finds herself plunged into a nightmare. An autobiographical account of Sylvia Plath's own mental breakdown and suicide attempt, "The Bell Jar" is more than a confessional novel, it is a comic but painful statement of what happens to a woman's aspirations in a society that refuses to take them seriously ...
The Bell Jar broke the boundaries between fiction and reality and helped cement Sylvia Plath's place as an enduring feminist icon. Celebrated for its darkly humorous, razor sharp portrait of 1950s society, it continues to resonate with readers today as testament to the universal human struggle to claim one's rightful place in the world.
28 de ago. de 2006 · Indeed, there is a certain variety of entertainment in which one just expects to encounter a young woman reading or referencing The Bell Jar. One would hardly be surprised to find The Bell Jar in the hands of Clare Fisher from the current HBO drama Six Feet Under or any of the central characters who plot female revenge in the film The Smokers (2000), to name just a couple of examples.
The Bell Jar - First Edition, 5th Printing - US Hardcover – 1 Jan. 1971 4.3 out of 5 stars 26,777 Editors' pick Hand-selected reads for Children and Young Adults
