"From the tip of every branch like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked [...] I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig-tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make ...

The closing line of Sylvia Plath's novel "The Bell Jar," "I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am," encapsulates themes of identity, self-discovery, survival, ...

The Bell Jar was totally groundbreaking when it was first published in 1963 for its honest depiction of mental illness SYLVIA Plath’s The Bell Jar has gone down in history as a novel that was ...

SYLVIA Plath's The Bell Jar has gone down in history as a novel that was light-years ahead of its time. The only novel written by the troubled poet before her untimely death in 1963, The Bell Jar ...