SYLVIA PLATH’S JOURNALS’ CORRELATION WITH THE FILM SYLVIA

Year 2021, Volume: 5 Issue: 1, 69 - 82, 27.06.2021

Nevin Faden Gürbüz

Abstract

This article aims to examine the relationship between Sylvia Plath’s Journals and the movie Sylvia, directed by Christine Jeffs and written by John Brownlow, and how effective the film was in voicing and bringing memories to the screen. Sylvia Plath’s Journals has both an autobiographical text and a literary text aspect, as it was written by the poet Plath, who has a literary personality aspect. By drawing at-tention to how the movie Sylvia relates to the work of Journals, it will be investi-gated to reveal the effects of the film adaptation on literature and readers as a result of social representation and to what extent it is an effective form of communication. In addition, it is aimed to explore which tools and methods are used while reflecting the women’s roles, psychological and intellectual thoughts that appear in Journals. The analysis, adapted from diaries and Plath’s turbulent life, has brought to light the particularly salient aspects of the poet, her psychological problems, and encourages the examination of the various perceptions that emerge among daily readers and film audiences.

Keywords

Sylvia Plath, Journals, poetry, autobiography, film

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