Abnormal Perceptions Of Reality The Bell Jar, And Cullen...

Faith Hopperton Ms. Williams 10th Honors Lit 2 December 2016 Abnormal Perceptions of Reality Isolation causes people to spiral into a dark hole of dramatic loss of self worth and often times, the loss of their will to keep living. Humans are social beings, they are not meant to be isolated and feel alone in the world. In Huxley s Brave New World, Plath s The Bell Jar, and Cullen s Columbine, characters suffer from various types of isolation. The three types of isolation are, self-inflicted, social, and forced isolation. Although self-inflicted and social isolation cause individuals to suffer, forced isolation is the most detrimental because there is no escape from the entrapment of forced isolation. Self-inflicted isolation is represented in The Bell Jar. In The Bell Jar the central character, a young girl named Esther, suffers from social isolation. Social isolation manifests itself by isolating a person from society because something about them is different or unsatisfactory in society’s eyes. Esther is a fiery girl who has her mind set out to follow her dream of being a writer. That dream falls short when she comes home from her month long scholarship in New York to her mother, who lets her know she did not get into the writing program she applied for. This causes Esther to spiral into an abyss of depression and loss of self worth. Esther did not like the idea of working under a man or staying pure for her husband. Esther did not have a very good relationship