Sunday, November 2, 2008

Bell Jar Plath One good Paragraph

Plath's The Bell Jar is a story about Esther who's journey takes her through inner problems that bring her to a Special World she desires to escape from. Obstacles and Threshold Guardians cause ordeals such as her losing of virginity and need to be taken to the hospital. She begins to see things more independently, realizing she does not need to stay at the Asylum. The ordeal to leave the asylum and go to college is a whole different ordeal that she must go through. The story's sequence of events are similar to Vogler's Hero's Journey with the Ordinary World, then taking her to the Asylum or Special World, where she meets mentors like her caretaker who commits suicide adding to the many obstacles in her path. She then gets the her Road Back and reward by finally leaving the Asylum.

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