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Diagnosis, How do I Accept This? I Don't Know Anymore. Is he Leaving me? Should I Seek Help? When to Leave Therapy? Help Me Please. What is Going On With Me? Her own terrifying world occupies her thoughts completely. Though inexperienced, Esther is also observant, poetic, and kind. SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. Character List Esther Greenwood Mrs. Greenwood Buddy Willard. The Bell Jar is the story of the hardships of a young woman named Esther who is clinically depressed and who struggles to keep up with the world around her.
Esther struggles with succeeding in school. Esther must battle through several obstacles in order to move on with her life. She also feels like she does not fit in with society. In order to understand the themes of the novel, one must learn who Sylvia Plath is. Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, in Boston. Some say that The Bell Jar is a semi- autobiographical novel because Esther and Sylvia share many of the. Have you ever expected yourself to be exactly what society wants and imagines you to be?
She is only nineteen and expects everything in her future to be perfect, but as any normal young women coming into society she is overwhelmed with expectations and goes into depression. While in depression, she starts going on all these dates with random men, then the last man she is with tries to assault.
Esther understands that her situation is better than that of most girls and is incapable of even understanding why she is upset with her life. Esther feels that she is not like others at her age or even like others in New York.
She prefers to be alone, and she purposely leaves her friends during her night out to get away from all of the commotion. She later thinks about all of the dreams she has and …show more content… Esther feels limited by society everywhere she goes. The severity of her illness escalates quickly, but realistically. Alyssa A lot of times depression lasts for years and years. It's impossible to fit all of it into a novel, and so my guess is that Plath was taking the most memorable or important parts of her life with depression and putting them together in this story.
Ayesha Fayyaz Yes i have gone through this and i go through frequently. And sometimes i m very normal but sometimes i just lay, paralyzed wishing the earth to swallow me whole. I really want sometimes to be left frozen on earth because i know if someone started talking to me i would shed into tears.
This terrifying dark thing eats me from inside. View 2 comments. Jillian Allen I am going through the recovery process of a mental breakdown because of clinical depression and anxiety, and I can tell you it is very much like this.
The smallest, most seemingly-unimportant thing can push you right over the edge because you are always so close to the edge. You feel so empty that it's like a hollowness residing in your chest; you don't know what to do with it, you don't know what to do with anything.
A rejection like Esther receives can really push you over the edge of "handling it" into "crumbling". I describe clinical depression as feeling like you're stuck in quick sand. You're slowly sinking until you no longer really care enough to struggle against the inevitability you're facing, so you give up. You aren't worried for your own life you don't see anything to be worried about because you don't value your own life enough to panic, and no one else can value it for you.
You start to succumb to it all because you can't focus on anything, you can't eat, can't sleep, you cry for what seems like no reason and it isn't out of sadness. You don't want to bathe, you can't focus on anything you know you need to do. All responsibility goes out the window because nothing really matters to you anymore, and you are just so exhausted all the time.
You feel as though you just want to crawl into the chest of every person you meet and go to sleep there for a very long time, like maybe they can do the living for you. It is terrifying in hindsight, but you aren't terrified as you're going through it because all you are feeling is a very vivid emptiness.
It's emptiness, but it let's you know it's there. You can feel the hollowness inside of you, it almost feels like you're already dead, like you're a zombie.
This book chronicles this remarkably well because Sylvia Plath suffered from the same issues she wrote about. It may seem illogical how quickly Esther breaks down but that is only because she was pushed over an edge where she could no longer handle the depression, but it had always been there. That is how it happens. You are drowning in the quick sand, but you aren't fully drowned, you aren't completely under until the last second. You're coping, then you're not.
Dianna I can relate. I don't think there is any way to explain it to someone who has not experienced it. Veda This answer contains spoilers… view spoiler [I think it was something that had been building up for years and years, maybe even her whole life. It might seem rushed because the novel begins in, what seems to be, the middle of her story. But even before she was assaulted, nearly raped which seems to be the triggering point for her deep depression and suicidal state , Esther's experiences in New York are not positive ones: she questions herself the entire time, she doesn't fit in, she feels like a complete failure.
It's probably much easier to pinpoint these negatives if you yourself can relate to Esther's mental state. It's very difficult to explain, otherwise. Creep I really got the feeling of 'building up' from this book. From the very beginning there was a definite emptiness to Esther, and that progressed throughout the story.
Sometimes a descent into madness is like a wild storm, it comes from nowhere and destroys everything in its path, hence the 'sudden' feeling. Maybe that was Sylvia's point though? Not everybody can pick up on the descent into insanity until it's too late - and then it seems to be happening all at once?
I don't know, an interesting thought but. You can be up one second and down the next. My downs are mostly triggered by such small things as a wrong word or a wrong glance. In my case — disappointment and feeling of worthlessness.
Samv It seemed sudden. I think because Plath meant for us to feel as lost as Ester. The story might seem rushed but the feeling is very accurate. Spoilers Ahead You become disinterested in things dropping out of school , then anxiety follows her inability to choose a summer project or decide on her future , then you act irrationally her weird ideas, and seemingly random and misplaced bouts of anger and irritability , you try new things that may be out of character or against the grain losing her virginity , and you basically just self-destruct in all these little ways, one after the other, without really thinking about it.
Once it starts, it progresses quickly. Something in New York must have set her off.
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