Sylvia Plaths The Bell Jar - Feminist Thought :: Feminism Feminist Women Criticism

The Bell Jar - Feminist Thought The Bell Jar This autobiographic novel by Sylvia Plath follows the story of Esther Greenwood, a third year college take aim-age child who spends her summer at a ladys fashion magazine in Manhattan. except despite her high expectations, Esther becomes bored with her work and uncertain about her suffer future. She even grows estranged from her traditional-minded boyfriend, Buddy Willard, a medical student later on diagnosed with TB. Upon returning to her hometown New England suburb, Esther discovers that she was not selected to take a Harvard summer school fiction course, and subsequently starts to slip into depression. Esther finds herself unable to concentrate and perform chance(a) tasks. Therefore she decides to undergo a few sessions with Dr. Gordon, a psychiatrist, and even undergoes treatments of electroconvulsive therapy therapy. As the depression sinks in, Esther becomes obsessive about suicide, and tries to kill herself by front cr awl into the cellar where she subsequently ingested a bottle of sleeping pills. Esthers attempt fails and she is interpreted to a city hospital, and then over to a private psychiatrical institution by the intervention of a benefactor. As Esther begins to recover, she develops a coda relationship with her psychiatrist Dr. Nolan, and eventually leaves the hospital as a modify woman. This transformation, spiritual re opinion or moral reconciliation is exactly the tolerant of happy ending described by Fay Weldon. In The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath ends the curb with the scene of Esther going into meet the doctors of the mental evaluation board. She is standing external the room with Dr. Nolan, observing the people around her and making observations about herself Dont be scared, Doctor Nolan had said.But inspite of Doctor Nolans reassurances, I was scared to death. There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice patched, retreaded and approved for the road, I was trying to think of an appropriate one when Doctor Nolan appeared out of nowhere and touched me on the shoulder. All right, Esther. I rose and followed her to the door..and guided myself by them (the doctors), as by a magical thread, I stepped into the room. (pg.199) This particular assessment is significant to the rest of the work because Esther goes through a drastic lurch in order to get where she is now. At the start of the novel, Esther is seen as in truth intelligent, yet she faces the womans dilemma of choosing between career and family to the ambivalence of remaining a virgin.