Sylvia Plath messages

Summary of Sylvia Plath's letters 1940 - 1963: In these correspondences, we reveal after more than 55 years new details about the life of Plath, the talented writer who addresses gloominess and intense emotion. What became her literary talent was the reality of her suffering from depression throughout her life, her loss of her father when she was a child, and her conflicting feelings toward her mother, who also suffered from the same illness. The deeper aspect of these emotions is related to her relationship with her poet husband Ted Hughes, her reactions and feelings, her imagination in discovering his romantic relationship with his mistress Asia Woff, the repercussions of his abandonment of her and their two children, her transformation from denial to anger, then to surrender and sad brokenness, and finally to utter despair that led to her suicide. However, in all these stages, she continued to write the letters she had been committed to since she was a ten-year-old child, most of which are like daily reports to her mother, Orelia Plath, and she stops at her last letter, when she was in her thirties, to her psychiatrist days before her suicide. Quotes from Sylvia Plath's letters: "It's comforting to find someone who talks about thoughts on life and religion. I believe spiritual companionship is very necessary in a world full of superficiality and few attractions." "I think the greatness of nature is a healing for the soul in one way or another. When seeing all the problems of the world, it seems comforting to think, as a kind of change, that this world is no more than dust particles in the vast, immense universe." "What terrifies me now is the feeling of my madness returning, the paralysis of my emotions, the constant feeling of fear and expecting the worst, defeatism and cowardice, mental hospital, brain surgeries."