The bell jar depression quotes

But in this instance, after a successful bout of electroshock therapy (guided by the female Dr. Nolan), the bell jar is lifted and Esther feels relief. The novel has been banned and challenged because it deals with mental illness, suicide, and the female experience.

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Look what can happen in this country, they’d say. A girl lives in some out-of-the-way town for nineteen years, so poor she can’t afford a magazine, and then she gets a scholarship to college and wins a prize here and a prize there and ends up steering New York like her own private car. A motif particularly prevalent within the first half of the novel involves foo specifically Esther Greenwood’s relationship with food. What caused her to be depressed were the social restrictions placed upon women of her time, her own insecurities over her identity, and the pressure she receives from all of her close ones.

While Esther’s self-destructive compulsions are irrational, Plath skillfully relates her tale in a way that makes Esther relatable. Chapter 1) Esther reflects on how a long hot bath restores her spirits. However, despite her inner turmoil and her knack to color every thought with shades of black, dark blue, and gray, her work is amazing and so insightful into the world of depression.

Even the bell jar itself is a suffocating tomb, an airless place where the soul dies, if not the body.

After reading Bell Jar , it dawned upon me, that my own demons might not be so different from those described in the book, and that my own life was somewhat reflected in that story. Yet that was my ending, all we can do is hope for the better. Growth Through Pain and Rebirth.

Instead of undergoing a progressive education in the ways of the worl culminating in an entrance into adulthoo Esther regresses into madness. We identify with it, an are horrified. I wondered why I couldn’t go the whole way doing what I should any more.

This made me sad and tired. There is nothing else in her. To the person in the bell jar , blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself it the bad dream. The bell jar hung, suspended. Esther completes her first successful electroconvulsive treatment, and her paralyzing depression begins to lift.

The jar has not disappeare but she feels that she is no longer trapped under it without hope. I was open to the circulating air. All the heat and fear had purged itself.

I felt surprisingly at peace. Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.

Draft of letter to Richard Sassoon. With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.

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