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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Commentary Essay for Sylvia Plath’s Bell Jar. Sylvia Plath? Have you heard of her? Well‚ Sylvia Plath is a well-known poet‚ novelist and author. Plath was born during the great depression influencing her writing style. At a very young age she lost her father and since then she began lose faith. She also became ambivalent about religion all throughout her life. Plath was a very smart student and was accepted into Smith College in America. During her stay in college she was accepted as an editor
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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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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
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Bell Jar is narrated from Esther’s perspective‚ forces us to understand her point of view and see that‚ viewed from some angles‚ her actions seem almost reasonable. Esther wants to save herself by destroying herself. If there is no one interested in listening to her nor willing to offer her a helping hand she feels alone in her struggle and by suicide she could help herself and at the same time get the attention and immortality that many artist thrive for. After few attempts of
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The Bell Jar‚ by Sylvia Plath There is a specific difference between the gender and sex of an individual. The gender of a person refers to whether they identify as male or female socially. The sex of an individual regards their internal organs and chromosomes. In the 1950’s‚ the people of America were divided into extremely specific groups of male or female. Depending on a persons gender group‚ they were expected to follow certain rules and theories of living. In the novel The Bell Jar by Sylvia
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