The bell jar movie gwyneth paltrow
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‘Fame will come. Fame especially for you. Fame cannot be avoided. And when it comes You will have paid for it with your happiness, Your husband and your life.’ So (perhaps) the spirit of the Ouija board whispered to Sylvia Plath one evening when she and Ted Hughes were spelling out their futures and she suddenly refused to continue. Hughes uses the speculation to close his poem “Ouija” in Birthday Letters, the book of poetry he wrote about his relationship with Plath. It was started after her suicide in 1963 and published after his death in 1998. It broke his silence about Sylvia, which persisted during years when the Plath industry all but condemned him of murder.
But if there was ever a woman who seemed headed for suicide with or without this husband or any other, that woman must have been Plath, and there is a scene in “Sylvia” where her mother warns Hughes of that, not quite in so many words. “The woman is perfected,” Plath wrote
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Sylvia (2003 film)
2003 British film
Sylvia is a 2003 British biographicaldrama film directed by Christine Jeffs and starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Craig, Jared Harris, and Michael Gambon. It tells a story based on the real-life romance between prominent poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. The film begins with their meeting at Cambridge in 1956 and ends with Sylvia Plath's suicide in 1963.
Plot
[edit]Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1932, Plath developed a precocious talent as a writer, publishing her first poem when she was only eight years old. That same year, tragedy introduced itself into her life as Plath was forced to confront the unexpected death of her father. In 1950, she began studying at Smith College on a literary scholarship, and while she was an outstanding student, she also began suffering from bouts of extreme depression. Following her junior year, she attempted suicide for the first time. Plath survived, and, in 1955, she was granted a Fulbright Schola
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I recently watched the movie Sylvia, the story of the turmoil life that was Sylvia Plath’s. Having recently read The Bell Jar for book club inom found myself fascinated with the woman behind the words.
The movie is mainly about Plath’s life at the point that Ted Hughes (eventual husband) comes into her life. The början of their time together fryst vatten much like a fairy tale of fun romance from meeting each other, to Ted tossing small rocks at her fönster at night. It appears to be the start of something beautiful. However, soon Sylvia finds herself struggling to write the poems she is known for and becomes more and more consumed with her husbands doings.
I really enjoyed seeing this side of the Sylvia Plath story. No, enjoyed doesn’t sound right…. I really appreciated being able to see this side of the story. Having read The Bell Jar and knowing the little bit that I knew about Sylvia and her life, this really pieced things tillsammans between the strange pa