Collect Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar And Poems (Writers And Their Works) Expressed By Rachel Haugrud Reiff Disseminated As Script

really enjoyed reading this book, Its a nice, easy read for those who are just starting to learn about Plath, The analysis of her works are well written

and easy to digest, Its not incredibly detailed, however the author cites many great sources if a reader wants to broaden their research, The Bell Jar is my Bible, and Sylvia is the one person I feel like I know completely even though we've never met.
Her poetry is too beautiful for words as well, It was not what I was expecting, I guess I should have read a few more pages in the book before I picked up this book at the library.
I thought It was your typical classic book with an intro about the author's work/life, Nope this book was just one long intro, I was not happy at first since I needed to read the story for a research paper comparing a colombian poet to sylvia This is for a spanish paper.
Afterward I'm glad I read it, The opinions in this book were interesting and now I feel a little more informed about the story, I really want to read The Bell Jar now, I bought Sylvia's other books Crossing The Waters and Ariel, On the flip side I like to typically read intros/critiques after I have read the said book, For fear of letting those opinions taint my own view of the book, I also like the element of surprise, Timeless. Exquisite writing. Plath writes with such a familiarity it is easy to see how certifiably insane thoughts can be seen as sane.
This book should be read by every woman, Oldie but a goodie. Very informative, I read this right after I read the Bel Jar, and after I finished this I felt more informed about the book my review of the bell jar still stands.
Still not a fan However I did take off some because this book puts Plath in a progressive, feminist "light" that portrays the Bell Jar as a womens rights manifesto, but completely ignores the overt racism in the book It's not feminism if it doesn't include all women!! And, unfortunately, it seems as Plaths works just pertains to white feminism.

I did find the organization of the autobiography/analyses very satisfying and fluent, so, three, . Thoroughly depressing, but somehow uplifting and hopeful all at once Found a lot of similarities to myself and Esther Greenwood, not sure if thats a good thing.
Beautifully written The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath,pages. This is an interesting, wellwritten story by the poet/author who eventually commits suicide, Actually, it is a text about her journey into mental illness, The story is not easy to read, but is worth reading if you enjoy stories from the authors own point of view.
Three.

Some new insights into insanity, schizophrenia and suicide, A perfect recipe to lead a happy life, I could never had a more ideal beginning of my day, Good, for an overview of her life, Offers an evenhanded approach, by considering multiple explanations for the cause of her suicide, Less bias than I've read in other places, It's not a very deep discussion, but gets the job done as a secondary source for the high school student, which is the target audience.
Romanticized Depression: Insightful, dark, insane, . very Sylvia. Beautifully written. Very depressing. very disturbing "I am. I am. I am. " this book was so insanely good and drew on a lot of parts of mental health that aren't talked about.
for a woman who had an extremely tough life, plath makes some very good points about life and the fact that people who are suicidal don't always want to be.
read this if u want to stare at a blank wall forhours Still reading, So far not at all what I expected, which was a maudlin looking glass into one woman's descent into madness.
Beautifully written. Loving it so far. Getting to my backburnered books, This is a beautiful heartrending story of descent into depression, or perhaps a bipolar condition, during the early part of theth century.
Definitely partbiographical, and inevitably the knowledge of the tragic ending of Plath's life only weeks after she wrote this colours perceptions of the work.

The Bell Jar itself is an insightful tale of how an apparently successful 'A' grade student, who seems to have everything for a happy life, can be betrayed by her own brain chemistry, as well as by the social expectations of her time.

Esther seems set for a happy and successful life, She excels academically, and seems likely to be able to develop a good career, But she suffers inner turmoil, possibly to some extent situational after her father's loss, She also feels inadequate, despite her track record of academic success, Perhaps something of 'high achiever' syndrome nothing she does is good enough, And quite possibly, there is the chemical element involved, the failure of brain chemicals to provide the right balance, She makes a suicide attempt, experiences suicidal ideation, and is treated at two different hospitals by two different doctors, At the second of these, a college acquaintance who is also being treated and who seems to be recovering, kills herself.

Throughout the book also runs the thread of the problems of being an intelligent woman in these times, when a woman was primarily expected to give up her own aspirations to marry, have children, and support her husband's career.
Men are so much more important than women! Plath experienced plenty of all these issues in her own short life.
She wrote this story from the heart,
Her poem 'Daddy' is one of her later poems, Its relation to the novel is pretty clear, I'm not going to analyse it here, I suggest you read it for yourself, The terrible ways in which she was torn by her love and hate for the father who really did die when she was onlyyears old, is heartbreaking.
Her sense of abandonment, and her comparison of her feeling for him with those for her husband, has to be read and felt for what it is.
RIP Sylvia.
Dont know what to rate this, . still thinking about it. Reminds me of 'Awakening' by Kate Chopin, . . but this somehow is more "awake", Will reread this I think, . . too many layers, too many themes for me wrap my head around, But, Plath seems, honestly like a wiser, braver, sparklier, tragic soulsister, A biography of writer Sylvia Plath that describes her era, her major worksthe novel The bell jar and her poetryher life, and the legacy of her writing.
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