who was unworthy,un worthy people remained untrustworthy like swastika.She said about her husband that he was more like a fascist and authoritarian.All her dreams became shattered and her purpose of marriage ended in fiasco.Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932, in Boston, Massachusetts as the daughter of German immigrant parents. Sylvia Plath was a gifted and troubled poet, known for the confessional style of her work. Her interest in writing emerged at an early age, and she started out by keeping a journal. Her father was a professor of biology at Boston University,and had specialized in bees.He has been charachterized as authoritarian and died of diabetes in 1940 when Plath was eight years old.Her mother,Aurelia worked at two jobs to …show more content…
She wrote this novel to escape from her frustrations as a struggling poet, as well as to reveal her complex and troubling story to her readers and the world as a whole.It was a release of emotions or catharsis.
Plath “became, as if refined by the pain, the poet she had always dreamed she would be.” Plath, along with the many inconsistencies of her mental health, could “certainly be difficult, and unquestionably the presence of Hughes, a major poet in his own right, accelerated Plath’s development as a writer” (Grossman 2).
Sylvia Plath had many reasons for her composition of The Bell Jar. Her novel “deals with Esther Greenwood’s life in the 1950s,” which is really Plath’s reflection on her own life during this era (Boyer 200).
Through her writing she wanted to escape from her overwhelmingly racing mind. Telling her story through young Esther gave Plath the relief that her voice would finally be heard. Her poetry and essays are the depiction of her whole life experiences,her hatred for her husband has been clearly shown in the famous poem
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The happy couple were married in June of that same year. “Colossus”, her first collections of poems,was published in England in