Present the way in which imprisonment is presented in The Bell Jar Essa

Present the way in which imprisonment is presented in The Bell Jar The bell jar is an inverted glass jar, generally utilise to scupper an object of scientific curiosity.Present the way in which imprisonment is presented in The Bell JarThe bell jar is an inverted glass jar, generally used to display anobject of scientific curiosity, contain a certain kind of gas, ormaintain a vacuum. For Esther, the bell jar symbolizes madness. Whengripped by insanity, she feels as if she is inside(a) an airless jar thatdistorts her perspective on the world and prevents her from connectingwith the people around her. At the end of the novel, the bell jar haslifted, but she can sense that it fluent hovers over her, waiting todrop at any moment.The narrative technique used in The Bell Jar is a first personnarrative. flat away we get the idea of imprisonment throughelements of the unhappy narrative voice in the early chapters. Thefirst fourth dimension of Sylvia Plaths The Bell Jar alerts the indor ser to theconflicts that will be dealt with in this semi-autobiographical novelIt was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted theRosenbergs, and I didnt know what I was doing in New York. Thespeaker will promise us in the next few sentences that she is stupidand that she feels sick, and that she is preoccupied with death.Like Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye, this young, college age,girl-woman is experiencing an adolescent crisis. When Esther Greenwoodtells us in the first sentence that this is the summer theyelectrocuted the Rosenbergs, we get a picture not only of thatsummers being nauseating, sultry, and death-oriented, but that thisyoung girls attitudes and life experiences are ... ...e Plath uses characters such as buddy Willard, employa clever writing technique to show his relationship with others, howpeople viewed him, his actions and physical description. Through Buddywe can have a better reasonableness of Esthers situation. Plath usesthe technique of flashback for suspense and to delay the plot. A lotof similes and metaphors are used to contribute to imprisonment. Forexample similes reflecting the 1950s yellow as cinnamon.Overall, I think that Plath is trying to convey the idea that womenwere being placed in a constricted role in society live as if in abell jar, able to see the outside world of exciting work andself-determined men, but unable to live it. People suffering fromemotional affection are also living as if under a bell jar, isolatedfrom others and unable to escape the distortions of their view of theworld.