Hello Darkness My Old Friend

"Hello darkness, my old friend

I've come to talk with you again"-Simon & Garfunkel

The lyrics of the Sounds of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel play exactly to the tune of The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. Esther, a constant fighter of depression, time and time falls into slumps in which she is not emotionally capable of doing anything. She finds herself often in a state in which all she can see is darkness, she cannot take joy in anything and at a point, Esther simply becomes entranced with the subject of death. She even goes as far to poll people for inspiration on this subject, when she casually asks Cal, "If you were going to kill yourself, how would you do it?" (156 Plath) However he does not pick up on the seriousness of this question and never recognizes the danger that Esther is in, no one does, because they only one she talks to, is the darkness inside of her. The only thing she thinks about is how much of an utter mess she is, slowly undoing herself. By the end of the novel, to Esther, darkness is no stranger; in fact it is more a friend that she revisits time after time.  For months she examines the possibility of her death again and again, considering outcomes and ways to finally end it. She eventually gives in to her temptations and attempts suicide multiple times. However, she after months of physiological help she is able to rid herself of the darkness and returns to her normal life on a more hopeful note. Yet it is doubtless that the demons inside her never truly left and she will inevitably have to revisit the darkness for a final time.