lives and experience it in different ways as well. Some people may consider this the best transition in their lifetime‚ and others may struggle through it hitting a rough patch. Characters Holden from The Catcher In The Rye and Esther from The Bell Jar are those of the less providential through out this life lasting transition. Having this book written in first person‚ you get to follow along on their journeys cheering them on long the way. Holden and Esther are very parallel characters. They experience
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Catcher and The Bell Jar " Two Coming of Age Novels While J.D. Salinger ’s The Catcher in the Rye and Sylvia Plath ’s The Bell Jar are two entirely different novels with different themes at first glance‚ both tell tales of teenagers who are coming of age and learning responsibility. In The Catcher in the Rye‚ Holden Caulfield has been kicked out of school and is trying to decide what he wants to do with his life. In The Bell Jar‚ Esther Greenwood tries to kill herself and is trying to figure out
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and women. In some scenarios‚ the American dream never becomes a reality. In J.D. Salinger’s novel‚ The Catcher in the Rye‚ Holden Caulfield displays the failure of the American dream through a male’s perspective; In Sylvia Plath’s novel‚ The Bell Jar‚ Esther Greenwood displays the females. Holden and Esther have deprived themselves of the idea of the American dream and undergo severe life changes through losses‚ failures‚ and alienation. At the beginning of Holden’s story‚ he mentions the death
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icon in the literary world‚ comes from a broken background which serves to further explain the path her life eventually took. While events from the formidable childhood years of Sylvia Plath set her up for struggles during and after college‚ The Bell Jar and Holocaust poetry continue to provide the basis for understanding Plath the author and intrigue critics to this day. "I feel like an outcast on a cold star‚ unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. I look down into the
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How do we breathe? Clara and Dominic have both produced a statement‚ upon how the bell jar represents the way we breathe‚ our respiratory system. Clara states that the model is correct as it shows that we breathe because the diaphragm moves up and down‚ on the contrary Dominic says the model is incorrect as we breathe with our ribs. My conclusion on who is correct is that Clara is correct because the diaphragm does move up and down when we breathe‚ however‚ Dominic‚ in a sense‚ is also correct
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Morgan Messenger IB English The Great Gatsby and The Bell Jar each portray two outlooks on the world through the use of different characters and the way that they see reality. Generally‚ no two people see the world in exactly the same way‚ but these two texts exaggerate two completely different realities in each. Authors implement this idea in order to create interest‚ controversy and tension between characters. Both F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sylvia Plath create two or more entirely different
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When one thinks of sex the thoughts of love‚ passion and romance come to mind along with it. However‚ in The Bell Jar and On the Road this is not the case. Both works display a great deal of sex‚ but it is just sex-nothing more‚ just meaningless sex. There is a great detachment from any expressions of love and passion in the stories. The Bell Jar takes a deep look into the place of sexuality in 1950s American culture. While in this time it is considered a norm for men to have sexual desires and
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Isolation and Alienation in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar Kate Finnegan In Sylvia Plath’s modern novel‚ The Bell Jar‚ the main character Esther isolates and alienates herself throughout the book because she mentally ill. Because her descent into a deep depression is slow and she leads a productive life when the reader first meets her‚ this descent seems rational to the reader in the beginning. Esther has an artsy soul. She is a writer and dreamer. When she does not make it into the writing program
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In both the Bell Jar and Catcher in the Rye‚ we meet characters whose personalities not only establish their situations but clash with the very foundation of the society that they live in. With both settings in a more conservative time‚ the expectations upon these young adults are more focused on gender schemas and societal consistency‚ causing these characters to find hypocritical loopholes through a system structured by privilege‚ class‚ and gender. As both stories are set around the early 1950s
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In The Bell Jar‚ Esther is constantly comparing her qualities with other characters. During her stay in New York‚ she is comparing herself to the contrasting individuals of Doreen and Betsy. Doreen belongs to the upper middle class: she is very self-confident and noticed
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