"Death/is an art, everything is like this,/I want to make it especially wonderful." Sylvia Plath's short and dramatic life doomed her to become a sad legend in the literary world.
Plath 1932 was born in a middle-class family in Massachusetts. She is precocious, intelligent, sensitive and competitive, and began to publish poems at the age of 8. From 65438 to 0955, she came to Cambridge University to study, met the poet ted hughes, and fell madly in love. Perhaps the more passionate her feelings are, the more unbearable Plath's betrayal of her husband will be. She committed suicide by turning on the gas in a state of insanity.
Plath joined the "confessional" poetry movement in the late 1950s, and frankly described personal privacy, inner pain, criminal psychology, suicide complex and sexual impulse with simple spoken language and grotesque symbols, which is a model of women's self-expression. Wandering on the edge of sobriety and madness, the magical poem became a symbol of her inner loneliness, anxiety, fear and nightmare. However, her genius did not get the attention it deserved before her death, and she only published a collection of poems, Giant. It was not until his death that his poems were published one after another, and their influence gradually expanded and they were sought after by international literary circles. A number of contemporary female poets in China, such as Yongming Zhai, Tang Yaping and Tang Danhong, have also been influenced by her to varying degrees. Plath also wrote the novel Bell Jar, which described the story of a female college student who was out of tune with society in a relaxed and humorous way according to her own experience. Comedy forms even contrast the darkness and heaviness of spiritual tragedy. Just as Salinger's Good Girl is a must-read for adolescent boys, The Bell Jar has become a must-read for American girls.
After Plath committed suicide, ted hughes was condemned by many people. It is generally believed that he is directly responsible for Plath's death. Over the years, he has been unable to hold his head in public, especially the rise of the feminist movement, which has put him under great pressure. Even more frightening, his affair partner Assia Weaver ended her and her two-year-old daughter and Hughes' lives in the same way six years later.
Although Hughes' cheating was indeed the fuse, Plath never got out of the autistic world of anxiety and struggle. She has been in a state of emotional mania for many years, and the potential impulse to die has plagued her short life. Plath, who is too sensitive and fragile by nature, has been fascinated by Freud's psychoanalysis since she was a girl. It is said that her mental problems began with the death of her 9-year-old father. Later, she tried to commit suicide and was even sent to a mental hospital for cruel electric shock treatment. Death is a shadow that she will never get rid of. Her suicide is a footnote to her obsession with life and death.
In endless pain and guilt, Hughes chose silence to face everything. He even burned some of Plath's diaries in the name of protecting children. But every year on Plath's birthday, he always writes a few poems and continues to communicate with her. Year after year, these poems were preserved by him. It was not until 1997 learned that he had cancer that he decided to publish them. He regarded the Birthday Book as the suicide of this life-and-death event. Two months later, he was freed from this world that he could never forgive.
In Birthday Book, Hughes abandoned his usual technique and adopted Plath's way-talking to record the image of his dead wife and deeply recalled their past. This book is full of intense sadness and pain. Because it involves the peach life of celebrities, this collection of pure literary poems has become an international bestseller without any packaging and publicity.
In addition to studying Plath's works, the literary world and the media have been keen to analyze her death tragedy all the year round and published several biographies. To a certain extent, people's curiosity about Plath and Hughes' grievances has exceeded their concern about their literary achievements. This kind of voyeurism makes the public relish the affair, which cannot but be said to be the sorrow of an era. It seems only a matter of time before their stories are expressed in movies, and movies can best satisfy voyeurism.
This film is basically based on Hughes' birthday letter. Sylvia and Ted's daughter opposed the filming. She even refused to use her mother's poems in movies and wrote poems in an English magazine to express her protest. In her view, these filmmakers simply can't understand the inner trauma of abandoned children, but only turn their mothers' pain into entertainment for people to consume.