Lazarus' last laugh: On reading "The Bell Jar"
Sylvia Plath has always been one of my favourite writers. Her life has intrigued me many a times. Somewhere because as a women of the 21 st century I have faced similar moments… of multitasking and balancing career, family , private and public issues and at the same time hunting for a suitable opportunity to hone my skills in. I read her Daddy many years back and loved it. The familiar circumstances of Plath , Virginia Woolf , Anne sexton have always posed in my mind questions about intellectualism and its connection with women. The Bell Jar was published under a pseudonym Victoria Lucas in 1963, a few weeks after her suicide by burning her face in an oven. A more terrible death could not have been thought for such a beauty as Plath married to one of the greatest writers of the time ,Ted Hughes. It is said that Plath did not want the book to be published primarily because she thought it would hurt her mother. The narrative is semi-autobiographical and is based on...