Part one of term paper
Sylvia Plath was born to middle class parents in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts; she published her first poem when she was eight. Her father was a professor of entomology, when he past away he left psychological scars on Sylvia when she was eight. Her mother worked teaching in a medical/secretarial program at Boston University. By the time she ...

Part two of term paper
... pills (LW, pg36). After a period of recovery involving electroshock and psychotherapy she was left in the “real word”(GR, pg23). She later described this experience in the novel, The Bell Jar. On February 11, 1963, Sylvia Plath killed herself with cooking gas at the age of 30. Esther Greenwood attended College on a scholarship, earned top grades and majored in English just like Sylvia. Her life at the beginning seemed to be full of potential and goals, but as her thoughts and emotions ar ...