Sylvia Plath is a writer with a life that generated a lot of interest. The interest that followed Plath was a result of her highly personal writings that eventually lead into her suicide. Her works closely reflect her life, and by understanding the events in Plath's life her poetry and prose becomes clearer to the reader. Sylvia Plath became a sort of a martyr for women's rights. Since the Bell Jar had a female character that wanted more than her set female role, it is considered an early feminist text. She struggled to reach a professional goal and her main character, Esther sees herself as s...

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. When reading her work I am marveled by the gloom and melancholy of it, as well as touched and understanding exactly what she means by it. Most of her work is very dark, as her mind was. Her life, work and depression have fascinated many people for decades. Her childhood, and early years were ideal, and did not favor those of a person who would suffer such a case of depression as hers. She was born on October 27, 1932, she grew up in a middle-class family, in a town near Boston. She had a brother named Warren, and parents Otto and Aurelia Plath. Her parents married and were very happy for mos...

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