The Bell Jar Plath

In the novel, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath it unveils a woman 's downhill spiral into a dark place. The novel is an autobiographical account of Sylvia Plath 's own life, however the names are changed. The main character is named Esther Greenwood, a young, bright writer who has won a contest to work at a magazine in New York City. While it seems glamorous, this is just the beginning of a terrible illness that takes over this young girls life. I felt a personal connection with this character as she allows the reader to enter into her dark world. This character goes through an amazing transformation from the beginning to the end as you feel her pain. The journey of her rebirth from the woman she was to the woman she becomes shapes her identity.
Gordon. For the for time, Esther explains that she felt scared, and didn 't know what was happening to her. She tried to write a letter to her friend Doreen but when she picks up the pen she can 't make out anything but scribbles. Esther has strong opinions of Dr. Gordon as she doesn 't think anything can cure her. After a few appointments he decides to give her electrotherapy which she describes as being extremely painful. She begins to lose hope in being saved or finding a way out of this dark tunnel. When she decides to attempt to commit suicide she takes the action very delicately. She has begun to think of herself as hopeless and worthless, she feels there is nothing left in life for her. She continues at attempting suicide by drowning herself however she is unsuccessful. "Then I saw that my body had all sorts of little tricks, such as making my hands go limp at the crucial second, which would save it, time and again, whereas if I had the whole say, I would be dead in a flash" (Plath, 130). When Esther decides to visit her dads graveyard you begin to see the pain she still feels from her fathers death. "My mother hadn 't let us come to his funeral because we were only children then, and he had died in the hospital, so the graveyard and even his death had always seemed unreal to me" (Plath, 135). She goes on to tell about all the things she could have done
Unfortunately, Sylvia Plath committed suicide at a young age while battling depression. Depression is a mysterious mental illness because it can happen suddenly and take over someones world immediately. Mood disorders cause people to feel up and down and can trigger at any moment based on a thought, sound, or image. Constant psychotherapy along with medication is valid treatment for this disorder, however the person diagnosed must want the help. This terrible illness is experienced by many all over, and its amazing how people are able to work through it. Although Esther knew she was better, she also knew that her mood could change at any point, and the bell jar could lower once again. Her beautiful writing allows you to connect with her feelings of despair, and be hopeful for the