![]() This descent into personal hell and into archaic terrors of the human psyche is completed by an ascent into Lacan’s Symbolic Order where the horror of the flesh and that of the archaic is converted into a(n electro) shocking narrative that carries both character and reader beyond good and evil, to the uncanny realm that looks so strange yet feels so familiar to all of us. Story, plot, character, symbolism and the network of symbolic oppositions unveil how death and life, father and mother figures generate an interface that ruins Esther’s life so as to rebuild it again. The list of traumas Esther Greenwood, the heroine and narrator of the novel has gone through mark how Esther’s recollection of her past gains significance. ![]() The detailed listings of characters, their emblematic activities (masterplots), emblems and enigmas help us learn what has been going on. We set up the time line of events (the story) and then map the plot or plots that may explain “what may have happened”. This is a narrative analysis of Sylvia Plath’s novel, The Bell Jar (1963). ![]()
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