2006-08-05 08:04:09 · 24 answers · asked by muckinfuppet 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Other - Arts & Humanities
She was depressed so she stuck her head in the oven.
2006-08-05 08:13:22 · answer #1 · answered by roxy10 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Oh, nobody really knows why anyone kills themselves. Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath's widower, wrote a book of poems called "The Birthday Letters," which may give some insight. What he did was write a poem each year on Sylvia's birthday after she died. Also, her autobiography "The Bell Jar" gives some insight into her mental illness/instability...which could help complete the puzzle of why she killed herself. In addition, her and Ted's daughter, Freida Hughes, has been publishing poetry and stuff for a little while now, so maybe some of her work sheds some light on it. Freida lives in Australia, I believe. Ted died a few years back.
Sylvia Plath had depression and other mental-health complications off and on throughout her life. She felt controlled and manipulated by her husband. She was highly sensitive and had somewhat of an inferiority complex.
It seems that her suicide was impulsive. She put a bowls of milk on each nightstand of her two children, placed wet towels (I believe it was) at the bottom door cracks (to hinder fumes), turned on the oven, put her head inside, and died of gas inhalation/lack of oxygen. Because she ended her life while her children were asleep and in the house, it seems fairly impulsive. But whoever knows? She may have planned it that way. Yet it appears spur-of-the-moment, or else you'd think she'd wait for a time when she was alone.
2006-08-05 15:12:27 · answer #2 · answered by Gestalt 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Many people think because she had a chemical imbalance, she was quite depressed because of her fathers death when she was a child and many other problems stemming from her childhood and after her husband left her she went over the deep end, stuck her head in the gas oven covered under the doors and killed herself.
She's one of my favorite writers, read the Bell Jar it's slightly autobiographical
2006-08-05 15:10:03 · answer #3 · answered by unknwndreamer 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Depression.
2006-08-05 15:07:56 · answer #4 · answered by brogdenuk 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe she finally succumed to her depression and put her head in the oven
2006-08-05 15:07:03 · answer #5 · answered by starikotasukinomiko 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
depression killed her, and maybe some love triangle type of issue, too, but I may be thinking of a Bronte and not Plath.
2006-08-05 15:08:27 · answer #6 · answered by bradley L 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
She was crazy! Crazy in a bad way! Totally unempowered and misunderstood! She had a true victim mentality. Her suicide was her way to get back at all the people that hurt and misunderstood her!
Depression was a big factor as well. I believe her preceptions also may have played a role in her choice to kill herself. Very sad, as she was a gifted writer.
2006-08-05 15:09:07 · answer #7 · answered by citizen ex 2 · 1⤊ 5⤋
if Sylvia Plath were alive today, she'd stick her head in a microwave oven
2006-08-05 15:10:59 · answer #8 · answered by Broc C 1 · 0⤊ 5⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Plath
It is thought she never got over the loss of her father.
She suffered for years with clinical depression
2006-08-05 15:09:34 · answer #9 · answered by paul c 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was permissible under an extreme form of poetic license.
2006-08-05 15:08:04 · answer #10 · answered by Grist 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋