On October 27, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts Sylvia Plath was born. She was an …show more content…
This book was not published in the United States until 1971. The Bell Jar novel has become a classic of American literature. Only did you know this novel has been translated into twelve other different languages. The Bell Jar was written while she was struggling with her mental illness. This novel was based on her life and her own experiences and for young women’s mental breakdowns. In the book it says “The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”(Plath) This shows that she was in deep heavy heartedness and that she was struggling. Sylvia felt like she had to write this book not only because of her divorce with Ted but because she felt lonely from the world and doubted her future with discouragement. The title of her book has a very powerful meaning not just to her but to those who knew her and who were around her. It symbolizes madness because she feels as if she is stuck inside an airless jar. Not only that she finds herself betrayed by her husband. Ever since this book was published she became known as one of the best American woman of poets in the 20th