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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelAn identity crises in The Bell Jar is a
psychological study on Esther Greenwood, the main
character who undergoes the identity crises.
This study tries to prove that the main character
in Sylvia Plath's novel has an identity crises. Beginning
with the split relationship with her mother and after
that with the society, then, her experiences in New
York and her failure to follow a writing course, all
of those have caused her a psychological conflict,
a feeling of depression, disintegration, and a suicide
attempt. But from those events, Esther succeeds in forming
a new personality to face the problems as a mature girl in
the future.
Through the topic presented in this thesis the
readers will know about Sylvia Plath's experiences when
she has gone through the identity crisis and how she forms
her self-identity through her own experiences.