Complete 6 page APA formatted essay: Exploring Depression In Sylvia Plaths The Bell Jar.Download file to see previous pages Incapable of fitting into the loud and glaring New York City or the oppressi

Complete 6 page APA formatted essay: Exploring Depression In Sylvia Plaths The Bell Jar.

Incapable of fitting into the loud and glaring New York City or the oppressive environs of Boston, she, later on, fell into serious depression and suffers a mental breakdown. Depression in The Bell JarSylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar intensely demonstrates the episode of depression as an episode of the self, and how important rhetoric is to the well-being of the self. Plath’s portrayal of her experience with depression can be interpreted as a story of traditional-female rhetoric and how feminist rhetoric can contradict and wrestle with it. This novel can be interpreted as a depiction of various conflicting rhetoric at the heart of a woman’s self.At the beginning of the story, there is a scene that shows the self-suppression of female depression. Esther and Doreen stumble upon several boys, and they decide to go to a bar. It quickly became obvious that the more likable of the boys were hooked on Doreen, whereas Esther regarded the other boy to be socially miserable. In such uncomfortable social setting Esther utters some declarations about her self-worth:I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before… I felt myself shrinking to a small black dot against all those red and white rugs and that pine paneling. I felt like a hole in the ground. Esther further proclaims, “The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silent of silence.”. Although she was breathing, she had a feeling of alienation from a known and perceptible self.