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- Sylvia Plath
- She was also known as Victoria Lucas

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She was born on 27 October 1932.

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-She was American.
- She was born in Boston, U.S.A

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She was a writer and poetess and wrote some stories and essays.

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- She showed great talent since childhood and published her first poem when she was 8.

- Her father was a  University professor and he died in that time

- Her mother sacrificed her own career for her father's and for that she was envious of
Sylvia´s.

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She lived in the 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s.
In this time was The movement for civil rights in United States.

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Similarities and differences with the character

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Similarities and differences with the character

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- Unlike the film´s characters , Sylvia had a less complicated life  because her father was known and her mother was also a writer.

- She was successful and was known. Even though she gave up, and this didn´t happen in the movie, because the women always fought for what they wanted

- A similarity is that both Sylvia and Katherine were encouraged to study

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- She got a prestigious scholarship to study literature in Cambridge, England, where she met her husband.

- She was the first poet to win a posthumous Pulitzer prize in 1982 for The Collected Poems

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- Sylvia not only loved writing, but she also painted, played the piano and continued to publish poems and stories in American magazines, this way she got some success.

- Her first published title was “The Colossus”  on 1960. It was  described as conventional and without drama

- Her main book is her novel: "The Crystal Bell" on 1963 autobiographical and signed as Victoria Lucas

- After this book, Sylvia became a feminist icon.

- Ariel is her last poems´s book.
It was published posthumously on 1965 and It contains some of her most famous poems.

- All her life she wrote diaries that were published after her death.

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- Sylvia had 2 children and she lived with them in London in a rented flat.

-  She tried to divorce her husband Ted Hughes because he was cheating on her.

-  On February 11, 1963 she suicided by suffocating herself with gas.

- When she died, her husband managed the edition of her complete poetry.

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- She felt the female condition as a prison: "My great tragedy is to have been born a woman," she wrote, because she didn´t want to be a submissive woman like her mother.

- She was a depressive person and she tried to suicide when she was in a college.

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In my opinion, Sylvia was a very lonely and depressed  person.
She wasn´t happy and nobody understood her.
I think that she had all her life to find happines and her suicide was a stupid idea.