- Radiohead, "Creep"
The novel The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath is the story of Esther Greenwood, a
young woman who struggles with depression and suicidal thoughts. Many of the feelings Esther experiences
throughout the novel are echoed in these lyrics from the song “Creep” by
Radiohead. Esther, too, feels out
of place and "weird". She first
starts noticing these feelings when she is working in New York at a prestigious
fashion magazine, and she describes it like this: “I guess I should have been excited the way most of
the other girls were, but I couldn’t get myself to react. I felt very still and
very empty…” (Plath 3).
Clearly, Esther feels a disconnect between herself and others. This is a theme that continues
throughout the novel as her depression worsens—she eventually comes to think of
herself as existing separately from the rest of the “normal world”, trapped
under the imaginary bell jar for which the novel is named. Indeed, her feelings of strangeness and
apartness are mirror images of the feelings expressed in the song.
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