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21 de out. de 2021 · “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 her together with glue. It is a fine novel, as bitter and...
Read 58.1k reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormous…
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The story relates a year in the life of Esther Greenwood, who seems to have a rosy future in front of her. Having won a competition to guest edit a magazine, she travels to New York. She worries about the fact that she is still a virgin and her encounters with men in New York go badly awry. Esther's time in the city heralds the start of a mental br...
Perhaps the single greatest achievement of Plath's novel is its outright commitment to truthfulness. Despite the fact that the novel has all the power and control of Plath's best poetry, it does not skew or transform her experiences in order to make her illness more or less dramatic. The Bell Jartakes the reader inside the experience of severe ment...
The prose which Plath uses in The Bell Jar does not quite reach the poetic heights of her poetry, particularly her supreme collection Ariel, in which she investigates similar themes. However, this does not mean the novel is not without its own merits. Plath managed to instill a sense of powerful honesty and brevity of expression which anchors the n...
3 de jan. de 2022 · “The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under—maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther’s breakdown with such intensity that Esther’s insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as ...
3 de jul. de 1971 · By Howard Moss. July 3, 1971. Photograph by Jean Gaumy / Magnum. The story of a poet who tries to end her life written by a poet who did, Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar” (Harper & Row) was...
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9 de fev. de 2023 · The Bell Jar tells the story of a young woman’s breakdown and recovery, but it is also a devastating critique of a paternalistic psychiatric system that regarded ambition in women as neurotic. In 1953, Plath had won a coveted spot as a summer guest editor at Mademoiselle magazine in Manhattan.
The Bell Jar received "warily positive reviews". [25] The short time span between the publication of the book and Plath's suicide resulted in "few innocent readings" of the novel. [8] The majority of early readers focused primarily on autobiographical connections from Plath to the protagonist.
