Emotional Complications in Sylvia Plath’s the Bell Jar

Abstract

Emotional complications are the result of childhood trauma. These kinds of problems will reflect during the teenage period. They are associated with illness. In this novel the protagonist reflects is the darker side of Plath, she is a voice form, from her negative side. She is also the well-bred oldest child in a typical family with two children. She is a budding intellectual who is later a sexually confused adolescent and finally, she becomes a mental patient. She is desperately in need of help to change herself from the state of adolescence into adulthood. She continues to cut herself off from others and also from her own feelings. She always feels all alone. Her world becomes grayer when she finds herself with more conflict. As a result, she becomes depressed about herself.