Madness of identity.

• Main Author: Lee, Wan Yun.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/35250
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The idea of madness is a common theme in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted. In The Bell Jar, a gradual insight of how Esther Greenwood falls into madness is depicted while in Girl, Interrupted Susanna shows her life in a mental institution and the people s...