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Kehoe, John. "Young, Talented, and Doomed: The Life of Sylvia Plath." SIRS May 1999. 24 Feb. 2011 http://sks.sirs.com |
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Lost her father Otto Plath at age 8. Sylvia waz her father's favorite and took the death very hard.
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Kehoe, John. "Young, Talented, and Doomed: The Life of Sylvia Plath." SIRS May 1999. 24 Feb. 2011 http://sks.sirs.com |
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Destracted herself with academics and never got lower than a B-plus.
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Kehoe, John. "Young, Talented, and Doomed: The Life of Sylvia Plath." SIRS May 1999. 24 Feb. 2011 http://sks.sirs.com |
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when she was a senior in HS her short story "And the Summer will not come again" was in Seventeen Magazine and "Bitter Strawberries" was in The Christian Science Monitor.
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Kehoe, John. "Young, Talented, and Doomed: The Life of Sylvia Plath." SIRS May 1999. 24 Feb. 2011 http://sks.sirs.com |
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| when she went to Smith she got the rep. of being a "Golden Girl." |
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Kehoe, John. "Young, Talented, and Doomed: The Life of Sylvia Plath." SIRS May 1999. 24 Feb. 2011 http://sks.sirs.com |
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"To all appearances, Plath was ambitious and extraordinarily focused."
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Kehoe, John. "Young, Talented, and Doomed: The Life of Sylvia Plath." SIRS May 1999. 24 Feb. 2011 http://sks.sirs.com |
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dealing with severe depression and anxiety inwardly.
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Kehoe, John. "Young, Talented, and Doomed: The Life of Sylvia Plath." SIRS May 1999. 24 Feb. 2011 http://sks.sirs.com |
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spent a month with MADEMOISELLE in New York
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Kehoe, John. "Young, Talented, and Doomed: The Life of Sylvia Plath." SIRS May 1999. 24 Feb. 2011 http://sks.sirs.com |
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close to a breakdown in the city and the heat, noise, dirt of the city, and social uncertainty around high class people did not help.
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Kehoe, John. "Young, Talented, and Doomed: The Life of Sylvia Plath." SIRS May 1999. 24 Feb. 2011 http://sks.sirs.com |
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once home she wanted to kill herself. She got electric shock therapy which made her worse. Did not sleep for most of august.
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Kehoe, John. "Young, Talented, and Doomed: The Life of Sylvia Plath." SIRS May 1999. 24 Feb. 2011 http://sks.sirs.com |
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on August 24 she hid in a basement crawl space and swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills. She was heard and went to a psychiatric hospital.
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Kehoe, John. "Young, Talented, and Doomed: The Life of Sylvia Plath." SIRS May 1999. 24 Feb. 2011 http://sks.sirs.com |
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went back to school seeming better and recieved a Fulbright scholarship to study and Cambridge
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"Sylvia Plath." POETS 24 Feb. 2011 http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/11 |
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born in Boston Massachusetts on 10,27/32
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"Sylvia Plath." POETS 24 Feb. 2011 http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/11 |
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"his authoritarian attitudes and his death defined her relationships and her poems."
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"Sylvia Plath." POETS 24 Feb. 2011 http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/11 |
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during youth had a drive to succeed. kept a journal since she was 11 and published her work localy.
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"Sylvia Plath." POETS 24 Feb. 2011 http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/11 |
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Started Smith in 1950 and was an exceptional student and grauated in 1955 even with going through a deep depression.
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"Sylvia Plath." POETS 24 Feb. 2011 http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/11 |
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"moved to Cambridge, England on a Fulbight Scholarship"
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"Sylvia Plath." POETS 24 Feb. 2011 http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/11 |
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Met Ted Hughes ata party and they got married on 06/16/56.
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"Sylvia Plath." POETS 24 Feb. 2011 http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/11 |
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| returned to Massachusetts in 57 and studied with Robert Lowell |
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"Sylvia Plath." POETS 24 Feb. 2011 http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/11 |
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Colossus, her first collection of poems was published in 1960 in England and in 1962 in the U.S.
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"Sylvia Plath." POETS 24 Feb. 2011 http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/11 |
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| her two children were Freida and Nicholas Hughes. |
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"Sylvia Plath." POETS 24 Feb. 2011 http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/11 |
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| The Bell Jar is semi-autobiographical and was published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. |
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"Sylvia Plath." POETS 24 Feb. 2011 http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/11 |
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| first poet to win a Pulitzer Prize after dieing for her volumes of work |
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Bonds Diana S. "The separative self in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar" Facts on File 1990. 24 Feb. 2011 http://fofweb.com |
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breakdown came from events in her past
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Bonds Diana S. "The separative self in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar" Facts on File 1990. 24 Feb. 2011 http://fofweb.com |
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torn apart by the conflict of not wanting domesticity, marriage, and motherhood.
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Bonds Diana S. "The separative self in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar" Facts on File 1990. 24 Feb. 2011 http://fofweb.com |
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Plath could not resolve problems in her own life
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Bonds Diana S. "The separative self in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar" Facts on File 1990. 24 Feb. 2011 http://fofweb.com |
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Esther's movement toward her breakdown comes from a series of rejections or separations from women who are the stereotype of womenhood.
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Bonds Diana S. "The separative self in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar" Facts on File 1990. 24 Feb. 2011 http://fofweb.com |
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Esther's "cure" is a pattern of destroying relations with people who's presence was constitutive.
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Bonds Diana S. "The separative self in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar" Facts on File 1990. 24 Feb. 2011 http://fofweb.com |
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in trying to not dismember herself, Esther self dismemebers herself.
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Bonds Diana S. "The separative self in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar" Facts on File 1990. 24 Feb. 2011 http://fofweb.com |
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"Esther embraces relations with most of the women in the novel only to cast them off."
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Bonds Diana S. "The separative self in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar" Facts on File 1990. 24 Feb. 2011 http://fofweb.com |
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while Esther tries to get better she's bringing back the problems that led to her downfall and is doomed to repeat herself.
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Bonds Diana S. "The separative self in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar" Facts on File 1990. 24 Feb. 2011 http://fofweb.com |
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Joan's death eliminates Esther's possibility of tenderness.
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Bonds Diana S. "The separative self in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar" Facts on File 1990. 24 Feb. 2011 http://fofweb.com |
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| By the end of the novel Esther has isolated herself |
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Werlock, Abby H. P., ed. "Plath, Sylvia." The Facts On File Companion to the American Novel. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2006. Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://fofweb.com |
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Plath's poems are imaginative and metophoric
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Werlock, Abby H. P., ed. "Plath, Sylvia." The Facts On File Companion to the American Novel. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2006. Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://fofweb.com |
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"The Bell Jar recounts a young woman's search for indentity, her rebellion against convention, mental collapse, and recovery."
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Werlock, Abby H. P., ed. "Plath, Sylvia." The Facts On File Companion to the American Novel. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2006. Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://fofweb.com |
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Definition
taught in many high schools and college courses and continues to sell steadily in many countries.
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Werlock, Abby H. P., ed. "Plath, Sylvia." The Facts On File Companion to the American Novel. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2006. Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://fofweb.com |
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| The mental breakdown and suicide that Plath attempted while at Smith is what she wrote The Bell Jar on. |
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Werlock, Abby H. P., ed. "Plath, Sylvia." The Facts On File Companion to the American Novel. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2006. Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://fofweb.com |
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| while married to Ted Hughes Plath typed his manuscripts |
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Werlock, Abby H. P., ed. "Plath, Sylvia." The Facts On File Companion to the American Novel. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2006. Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://fofweb.com |
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depicts the pain of adolescence and has been compared to J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye.
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Werlock, Abby H. P., ed. "Plath, Sylvia." The Facts On File Companion to the American Novel. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2006. Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://fofweb.com |
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Esther Greenwood and Sylvia Plath went through therapy and electroshock treatments and manage to return to a normal life.
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Werlock, Abby H. P., ed. "Plath, Sylvia." The Facts On File Companion to the American Novel. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2006. Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://fofweb.com |
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unlike Esther who got a happy ending, Plath died.
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Werlock, Abby H. P., ed. "Plath, Sylvia." The Facts On File Companion to the American Novel. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2006. Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://fofweb.com |
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left Hughes when she found out he was cheating on her.
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Werlock, Abby H. P., ed. "Plath, Sylvia." The Facts On File Companion to the American Novel. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2006. Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://fofweb.com |
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a film version of The Bell Jar was made in 1978
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Werlock, Abby H. P., ed. "Plath, Sylvia." The Facts On File Companion to the American Novel. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2006. Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://fofweb.com |
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takes place over a six month time period
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Werlock, Abby H. P., ed. "Plath, Sylvia." The Facts On File Companion to the American Novel. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2006. Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://fofweb.com |
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chronicles Esther's breakdown, suicide attempts, and hospitalization.
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Werlock, Abby H. P., ed. "Plath, Sylvia." The Facts On File Companion to the American Novel. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2006. Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://fofweb.com |
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the settings are in NYC and Boston at the peak of the cold war
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Werlock, Abby H. P., ed. "Plath, Sylvia." The Facts On File Companion to the American Novel. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2006. Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://fofweb.com |
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seen as a coming of age novel and portrays teen angst.
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Werlock, Abby H. P., ed. "Plath, Sylvia." The Facts On File Companion to the American Novel. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2006. Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://fofweb.com |
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"unflinching portrayal mental illness and medical establishments"
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Werlock, Abby H. P., ed. "Plath, Sylvia." The Facts On File Companion to the American Novel. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2006. Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://fofweb.com |
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| Esther is pressured to conform to society and her family's expectations. |
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Werlock, Abby H. P., ed. "Plath, Sylvia." The Facts On File Companion to the American Novel. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2006. Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://fofweb.com |
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Esther goes through a mental rift and identity crisis.
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Werlock, Abby H. P., ed. "Plath, Sylvia." The Facts On File Companion to the American Novel. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2006. Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://fofweb.com |
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the novel being in first person allows Esther to describe her breakdown and makes the illness understanable.
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Werlock, Abby H. P., ed. "Plath, Sylvia." The Facts On File Companion to the American Novel. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2006. Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://fofweb.com |
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As Esther spends more time in the city she begins to feel more directionless.
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Werlock, Abby H. P., ed. "Plath, Sylvia." The Facts On File Companion to the American Novel. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2006. Bloom's Literary Reference Online. Facts On File, Inc. http://fofweb.com |
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The fact that she feels she must perform to survive leads to her breakdown eventually.
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