A review by diyuk
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

5.0

Sylvia Path's response towards hospitalisation for psychotherapy and shock treatment - "A time of darkness, despair, disillusion-so black only as the inferno of the human mind can be- symbolic death, and numb shock- then the painful agony of slow rebirth and psychic regeneration" - summarises the book itself.

In her own words, The Bell Jar is an autobiographical apprentice work which she had to write in order to free herself from her past.

"...to the person in the bell jar, black and stopped as a dead body, the world itself is a bad dream. a bad dream."