Essays about: "Esther Greenwood"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words Esther Greenwood.

  1. 1. No Need for Penis-Envy : A Feminist Psychoanalytic Reading of The Bell Jar

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Kajsa Erikson; [2021]
    Keywords : The Bell Jar; Sylvia Plath; psychoanalysis; feminism; Oedipus complex; bisexuality; castration; hysteria; melancholia;

    Abstract : This essay analyzes Esther Greenwood’s identity crisis, mental illness, and recovery in Sylvia Plath’s novel The Bell Jar (1963) from a feminist psychoanalytic perspective. The purpose is to understand the cultural and psychological mechanisms behind the main character’s situation. READ MORE

  3. 2. The representations of the female body in The Bell Jar

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Amanda Harris; [2021]
    Keywords : Ecofeminism; trans-corporeality; purity; sexuality; motherhood;

    Abstract : This paper is about the representations of the female body in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. The pure female body, the sexual female body and motherhood (the female body as a mother) are analysed through an ecofeminist perspective. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Impact of Water Chlorination on Faecal Carriage Rates of Antimicrobial Resistant Bacteria in Bangladeshi Children

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Teknisk vattenresurslära

    Author : Esther Greenwood; [2019]
    Keywords : Drinking water chlorination; antimicrobial resistance; ESBL-E; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Can drinking water chlorination reduce the spread of antimicrobial resistant bacteria? Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of today’s most pressing global health threats, accounting for an estimated 700,000 deaths per year (WHO, 2019). The WHO has emphasized the need for effective sanitation and hygiene measures in order to reduce the incidence of infections caused by antimicrobial resistant bacteria (WHO, 2015). READ MORE

  5. 4. SEX AND SUCCESS. A Feminist Analysis of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Agnese Boffano; [2018-01-19]
    Keywords : engelska; Sylvia Plath; The Bell Jar; Feminist Criticism; sexuality; sexual hierarchy;

    Abstract : Sexuality is an subject area that affects the power relations between genders, where one gender uses sex to subjugate and control the other. Sylvia Plath comments on this use of sexuality in her semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar, while also criticising how sex is used to limit women’s success but used to enhance men’s success. READ MORE

  6. 5. "I was my own woman" - Breakdown and Recovery in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Karolina Kitanoska; [2013]
    Keywords : women’s role in the 1950’s and 1960’s; Individuality; identity crisis; housewife ideal; depression; eating disorder; objectification; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : During the 1950’s and 1960’s an unexplainable phenomenon arose amongst middle class women in North America. Women in the suburbs experienced a feeling of emptiness even though they believed they had everything they could ever ask for in life. READ MORE