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The Bell Jar Shows How Shock Therapy Makes Women Strong

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How Esther is a Model of a Self-Sufficient Woman in The bell jar
Introduction
Sylvia Plath’s first person narrator in the bell jar across as a Holden Caulfield type—a disaffected, somewhat lost, but highly intelligent individual capable of critical thought and therefore exceedingly lonely in … another dimension of this approach and focuses on deconstructing systems of power as they are represented in works of art.
In Plath’s The bell jar, Esther is the main protagonist and narrator of the story. She narrates her unhappiness alongside worries and fears that she knows she is … who expresses the same sort of misgivings as he wanders the same city in the midst of an existential crisis: in fact, as bell (2016) points out there is a veritable geneaology of type that stretches from Twain’s Tom and Huck on down to Holden and Esther. … and self-sufficient and from the Feminist……

References

References

Alberga-Parisi, A., & Pope, B. (2018). Loss and the Perfection Crucible in The Bell Jar and The Catcher in the Rye. When Loss Gets Personal: Discussing Death through Literature in the Secondary ELA Classroom, 141.

Bell, E. (2016). Adolescence and Liminality in Carson McCullers’ Short Fiction. In Childhood through the Looking Glass (pp. 89-98). Brill.

Codina, N., & Pestana, J. V. (2019). Time Matters Differently in Leisure Experience for Men and Women: Leisure Dedication and Time Perspective. International journal of environmental research and public health, 16(14), 2513.

Effthimiou, O., & Franco, Z. (2017). Heroic intelligence: The hero\\\\\\'s journey as an evolutionary and existential blueprint. Journal of Genius and Eminence, 2(2).

Plath, S. (1996). The bell jar. New York, NY: HarperCollins.

Short, E. C., ed. (1991). Forms of curriculum inquiry. New York, NY: SUNY Press.

Tyson, L. (2006). Critical theory today: A user-friendly guide. New York, NY: Routledge.

 

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