English 1027F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sylvia Plath, Olive Higgins Prouty, Bildungsroman
6 Mar 2015
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1962 plath"s first book of poetry was published by this point hughes was skyrocketing, Plath was making her way sense of competition was hard for sylvia. Victoria lucas to protect them, novelistic experiment in its own right. Mind under duress esther"s perceptions are exaggerated and distorted. Betrayed american ideal not sure being a writer is something good; something wrong with this, she"s letting everybody down. Betrays the trust they put in here. Ethel and julius were persecuted by america not a single person, an abstract concept. Esther in similar situation: persecuted by no one in particular the grand faceless apparatus of what it means to be a woman in america in 1950s. Couple is electrocuted how esther will be persecuted electrotherapy. Puts esther"s story in a political context becomes a larger parable about nature of selfhood in the modern world suggests we become who we are through an antagonistic relationship with institutions, networks, systems.
