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It's a very relaxing game. You can open it and do flower collecting challenges to spend hours. Environments look absolutely lush, the art ad draw distance and lighting are one of the best you'll experience. Looks like a painting most of the time.
Or you can do challenges like hunting a wolf with dynamite or knifing a bear to death.
Or just do some outfit challenge like eliminating all players from the table on poker, arm wrestling or getting a perfect shot in horseshoe game.
Literally hundreds of things to do, and they all feel refined in the gameplay department.
One negative I will say though is mission structure us BORING. Doing errands for random people from mission one to end basically and they do get kind of repetitive but you don't realise while playing because the RAGE engine + Euphoria + Rockstar's bullet damage system makes them very satisfying.
I am so close to 100%ing this and will get around to it soon. I really hope GTAV has similar challenge system from this game, it's just so much fun and gives it substantial longevity long after the missions are over.
Last edited by masteratt; 11-15-2011 at 03:32 AM.
I've not even finished the main campaign yet, and I've had it for close to 2 months now. It's the tedious nature of the mission structure and my irritation at the fact it's so sparsely populated with settlements, something that would be fine were it not for the GTA3 style of NPC's going about their business within these settlements.
The main character's story is being revealed too slowly. So, either the attempt at a mysterious character has been poorly handled, or he's just a tedious character: he was involved with a gang and is now legit... *yawn*
It doesn't feel like a game that belongs in this generation. I played the shit out of - and thoroughly enjoyed - GTA4, but this game is just too lacking in the kind of dynamic gameplay that the absence of the trappings of a city should facilitate.
Flower picking? That would be absolutely fine if I could get my witchdoctor on and combine them into cures. Hunting animals would be more interesting if I could hang tokens of my spoils in my homes. There are RPG-esque roots here, roots that could have made this game blossom with a little more focus than "Western GTA". If they wanted an RPG, they should have put in the effort and made one. If they wanted an action/adventure game, they should have given us set-pieces and a character that can climb hills. What we got was something that blandly languished somewhere in the middle.
It pains my lobes to have to listen to a character that, when he talks on ideas of religion and philosophy, sounds agonizingly out of place. I don't believe for one second that a character like John Marsden, in the early 20th century, would have the religious ambivalence of a 21st century stoned sixth former.
It's a real pity because I really loved Red Dead Redemption and I entered into this game with a great deal of enthusiasm. That's now gone, and all I'm left with is a cautious sense of hope.
Originally Posted by Eddie Izzard - Dress To Kill
You don't eat pigs, we don't eat pigs,
It seems it's been that way forever.
So if you don't eat pigs and we don't eat pigs,
Why not not eat pigs together?
I think they did ok for a first time open world Red Dead game. Now they can expand next gen and give us those bigger settlements and hopefully more interesting missions. Overall i loved it but i dont think the Housers hould write the story for the next one.
As for Undead Nightmare now that i did not like. So repetitive and so boring. The missions were also so so bland. They did great in The Ballad of Gay Tony expansion but this was piss poor for me.
we could have had that this gen if all consoles had gone for blu-ray or an equivalent. DVD crippled this gen and i've always said that
Just so you know Red Dead is probably in the top ten best looking games this gen. Thats the 360 version. The PS3 version is very inferior. Blu Ray will help with content but the PS3 architecture has just been a mess to try and exploit the advantage of Blu Ray this gen. Thats why only PS3 games seem to do it. Also DVD doesnt matter anymore because multiple discs can be installed on 360. If GTA V comes out on one DVD you know you can only blame Rockstar this time around and not MS.
Im actually praying for PS4 to be announced soon so we can be done with these shitty PS3 ports.
just so you know, it's not that simple. devs are going to consider how many Arcades are out there first. that cuts their potential down quite a lot and regardless of the many posts on the fact you can buy a hard drive, that's not good enough. if MS had gone with HD-DVD this generation would be littered with Uncharted 2 quality games. as usual Sony handed this gen to devs and as usual MS fucked it up (deliberately, as Sony said)
anyway, i've had enough of this type of discussion. i simply can't believe people haven't worked it out yet. i'll leave the last word for Sony:
"I think what [Xbox Europe boss] Chris Lewis was referring to was something that we've known about for quite some time, that we've been dealing with, and trying to deal with – in the spirit of competition, more than anything, we look for ways to give our consumer reason to have the PS3. I think what Chris and the other representatives at Microsoft are doing is protecting an inferior technology. I think they want to dumb it down and keep it as pedestrian as possible so that if you want to do anything for Blu-ray or you have extra content above 9 gigs or you want to do anything of that nature, you'd better sure as heck remember that Microsoft can't handle that," Dyer began with his all-out attack.
"And that's a huge problem with them. It first started on the smaller pubs, and we can talk about what's happened on XBL and the policy they have there that requires publishers to have a whole litany of things in order to get onto their network or they have to go through and be published by Xbox, by Microsoft, which essentially lets them dictate how long they'll be exclusive and whether or not they own the IP, etc, etc. They – for instance, if you want to be able to do something on XBL, you need to have an office, there's all kinds of restrictions. We don't do that. We don't have any kind of policy like that."
"Here's the thing... It's now progressed to not just be these smaller indie pubs that are obviously very easy to kick around. It's moved up the food chain. It's gone to B and A level publishers to where Microsoft now demands - they sent out something, and I'm reading directly from this - and I'm sure you've seen this: 'Should content not be shipped simultaneously with competing platforms in all regions where the content is available, or should the content and features available on the Xbox 360 not be in parity with versions on competing platforms, then Microsoft reserves the right to not allow that content to be published for Xbox 360 or released on Xbox Live marketplace.' So potentially any time we've gone out and negotiated exclusive content of things that we've announced at things like DPS or E3, publishers are getting the living crap kicked out of them by Microsoft because they are doing something for the consumer that is better on our platform than it might be perceived on theirs."
"So from a creativity standpoint and what we are doing to try to make it better for the consumer, our view is Microsoft's doing everything they can to eliminate that because they have an inferior technology."
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Funnily enough, I agree....funnily because agreeing with this you might think I didn't enjoy the game but I did.....More the extra challenges than the missions though.
And yeah, first thing I tweeted after playing this game for a while to Rockstar was "you guys should make an RPG", this game really gave the sense that's kind of where the game design was headed but they didn't go full way but even half-designed RPG present in Red Dead is amazing so if Rockstar take the time to make a western RPG, it'll blow minds.
Anyway I guess my summary for this game would be, good with missions, great with the extra stuff.
And yes PS3 version isn't as good as 360 (my brother got it so I have personal comparison), but I wouldn't say "very inferior", 360 just looks a bit sharper and cleaner due to higher res. But PS3 version isn't going to make you puke or anything, it still looks fantastic and the 'soft rendering' of PS3 actually adds a nice touch in some areas.
100%'ed the SP Fantastic experience, hunting felt so awesome. And they really need these type of challenge system in GTAV, so damn addictive.
I can Platinum the game but there are some annoying MP trophies (as with all Rockstar game...). Might get around to them eventually, go to trophy site and get a boosting partner most likely.
Been trying to get to 100%, at 91.1% right now. Haven't had a whole lot of time in the past few months. The Social Club stuff helps greatly for this.
Yeah that 100% page is fantastic. LA Noire one was awesome help as well. When I started my 100% quest I was thinking how crazy I was, but before you know it you get it done. The only tedious part is animals sometimes don't spawn for the hunter challenges but reading the Wikia page helped a lot for finding a few ke spawn locations.
The eco system in this game is so great and varied it's hard to have a set way of doing things (outside of a couple of animals who literally keep spawning in one spot).
Got the Three Consecutive FFA wins. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO lucky though, got in a lobby with a guy who seemed AFK 90% of the time. I dunno what he was doing but I got it thanks to him. Maybe he is just a nice guy who idles in FFA lobbies to help people get trophies lol.
Only two left for Platinum now, 10 assists during a hideout raid (harder than it sounds) and the max rank one. Not a big fan of MP or doing hideouts over and over so levelling up has been a big pain. I played in most 2,3,4times XP events though so I am at 45.
Anyone up for helping me with the Assist one?
Last edited by masteratt; 05-16-2012 at 04:42 PM.
It's been a while since I played it so I might be rubbish, but I'll lend a hand helping you with the assist trophy.
Originally Posted by Eddie Izzard - Dress To Kill
You don't eat pigs, we don't eat pigs,
It seems it's been that way forever.
So if you don't eat pigs and we don't eat pigs,
Why not not eat pigs together?
All you have to do is, watch who I am shooting in the arm/chest whatever, and as soon as I hit a guy, get a perfect headshot so he dies instantly, because if he doesn't die with your shot that comes after mine, it doesn't count as assist for me. We do that for 10 dudes and I got the trophy.
Two things:
When is the soonest you can be on?
Any trophies you want that I can help you get?
Never mind got it. Ps3Trophies.org is a great community. With a BlackOps zombie trophy and now this, minutes after you post in a thread you get at least a couple of people helping you and in both cases they were very cool dudes.
Now just got to grind to MP Level50 and *bling*, Platinum....Not looking forward to that, as I don't like replaying hideouts over and over or playing competitive.
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A cute islandy place with friendly waitstaff who allowed us to view the lobster broil! Wed. night all you care to eat lobster with garlic butter salad, potato and carrots. What a feast. A few feet from the beach and well worth it!!!
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Celeste's Staff once again went above the call, my wife and I were treated every meal and everyday with smiles, great food, very attentive workers. We were there during a slow spell on the island and one day as we walked into the restaurant I could hear clapping and a small "yay"... I peeked in the kitchen to ask and... More
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Day One: Welcome to Ecuador!
Your guides will meet you at the Quito Airport, and then we're off to the Swisshotel. For the rest of the day you are encouraged to relax while your body acclimates to the altitude of the city, approximately 10,000 feet above sea level.
Day Two: Equatorial Line Visit, Imbabura and Otavalo Indian Market
Today we drive north from Quito to begin our first bike ride along the ciclo-way. Riding along a beautiful wide trail, we'll pass over el Chiche river and be treated to stunning views of the gorge and surrounding dry forest. After, visit the iconic Equatorial line monument and straddle both hemispheres. Continue on to Imbabura for lunch at Hacienda La Merced Baja in Zuleta Valley. Later, we'll ride through picturesque villages to the town of Otavalo, where we'll explore the famous markets known for the hand weaved products of the indigenous residents. Enjoy an intimate dinner amidst the mountain surroundings at Hacienda Pinsaqui.
Meals: Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner
Destinations: Equatorial Line Visit, Imbabura, Otavalo
Accomplished: 15 miles / 24 km
Day Three: Cuicocha Lake Hike
This morning we'll set out to hike around Cuicocha Crater Lake, which, at 3,070 meters, is a nature reserve, located on the slopes of the larger Cotacachi Volcano. This ecosystem is a combination of Paramo and Andean forest where you can find unique local flora such as pumamaqui, quishuar, chilca, bromarea, fushia, lupins, calcelaria, and other colorful Andean flowers. After hiking, we'll hop on our bikes and ride to lunch in the town of Cotacachi. Explore the local leather shops in Cotacachi before returning to Quito for the evening. Tonight you are free to explore the city on your own.
Meals: Breakfast / Lunch
Destinations: Cuicocha Crater Lake, Cotacachi Volcano
Accomplished: 14 miles / 23 km
Day Four: Hike Frigate Hill
Today we're off to the Galapagos. Board a morning flight to Baltra and transfer to San Cristobal Island. Enjoy a welcome lunch upon arrival and briefing before the adventure begins. Hike out of town to visit the San Cristóbal Interpretation Center for a general understanding about the islands. Then explore a unique dry forest. Our route leads us to Frigate Hill along trails of lava rock, featuring splendid views of the coastline and Puerto Baquerizo Moreno. Keep your eye out for local wildlife like magnificent frigate birds or blue-footed boobies. This evening we'll enjoy a waterfront dinner at Casa Opuntia.
Meals: Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner
Destinations: San Cristobal Island, Frigate Hill, Puerto Baqueirzo Moreno, Carola Beach
Accomplished: 2.6 miles / 4.5 km hiked
Day Five: Kayak and Snorkel on San Cristobal
Today, prepare for a full day of water activities! We'll begin in ocean kayaks paddling along the coast and exploring coves, like Darwin Bay, that are full of local wildlife. Upon reaching Playa Ochoa, continue on to nearby Isla Lobos on the lookout for marine iguanas and sea lions. Finally, arrive in Leon Dormido, the jagged remains of an old tuff cone and home to thousands of sea birds. Here we'll be treated to excellent snorkeling, and, for certified divers, one of the best dives in the islands. We'll return to our hotel for our last evening in San Cristobal.
Meals: Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner
Destinations: Darwin Bay, Playa Ochoa, Isla Lobos, Leon Dormido
Accomplished: 5 miles / 8 km kayaked
Day Six: Coastal Exploration of Tintoreras and Isabela Islands
Start with a short flight from San Cristobal to Isabela Island. We'll head out on mountain bikes to explore the beautiful coastline with its stunning scenery and fascinating fauna. Visit El Muro de las Lágrimas (Wall of Tears), a historic site that dates back to the era between 1946 and 1959 when Isabela Island was used as a penal colony. Continue along the coast, exploring the expansive white sand beaches, mangroves and brackish lagoons. Enjoy a boat ride to the Tintoreras, a set of small islets that are filled with wildlife and home to the Galapagos penguin. Tonight we'll dine at Iguana Crossing.
Meals: Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner
Destinations: Isabela Island, El Muro de las Lágrimas, Tintoreras
Accomplished: 8 miles / 13 km
Day Seven: Volcano Discovery Hike in the Isabela Highlands
From Puerto Villamil, we'll drive up to the highlands where the road ends and set off into a world of recent geological history. Walking on dirt trails, we'll arrive at the rim of the Sierra Negra Volcano, which last erupted in October 2005. The rim encloses a huge lava-filled crater and offers views to the other volcanoes, the Perry Isthmus, and beyond. Feeling adventurous? Continue the hike up to Volcano Chico to observe the puffing fumaroles and extraordinary lava formations. Ride downhill to Campo Duro, passing coffee plantations and orange trees. Finally, return to Puerto Villamil to relax at our beachfront hotel.
Meals: Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner
Destinations: Puerto Villamil, Sierra Negra Volcano, Campo Duro
Accomplished: 14 miles / 23 km
Day Eight: Tortuga Island Boat Trip
Enjoy a scenic boat ride out to the small horseshoe-shaped Tortuga Island. Once here we'll explore Tortuga's brackish lagoons, snorkel in Loberia Grande, and visit the wonderful sea bird sanctuary. In the afternoon we'll return to Isabela for an optional hike. Choose to join your guides on the hike or spend your afternoon relaxing on the white sandy beaches. We'll regroup this evening for dinner at the hotel featuring local specialties.
Meals: Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner
Destinations: Tortuga Island, Loberia Grande
Day Nine: Hike with the Giant Tortoise at El Chato and Divine Bay Kayaking
Begin the day with a quick boat ride from Isabela to the Santa Cruz Islands. Upon arrival, we'll transfer to the El Chato reserve in the highlands of Santa Cruz Island. These highlands are the natural habitat of the incredible Galapagos tortoise, and we'll learn all about these lumbering giants during our hike. After lunch we'll set off to paddle our kayaks around Divine Bay. Glide through turquoise waters that wind through high-walled lava channels, where white-tipped sharks and rays cruise beneath the surface. This evening we will dine at one of Puerto Ayora's fantastic restaurants before settling down at the Angermeyer Waterfront Hotel.
Meals: Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner
Destinations: Santa Cruz Islands, El Chato, Divine Bay, Puerto Ayora
Accomplished: 2.8 miles / 3.6 km hiked
Day Ten: Charles Darwin Research Station
Today we'll visit the Charles Darwin Research Station to learn about conservation and management efforts in the archipelago. Then it's time to say goodbye to the Galapagos and transfer out to Baltra for our flight back to Quito.
Meals: Breakfast
Destinations: Charles Darwin Research Station
Day Eleven: Adios Ecuador!
Relax and enjoy your last Ecuadorian breakfast, pop into the old town or head off to the airport to continue your journey or head home. The day is yours to enjoy.


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By Bryan Walsh
June 21, 2011 http://www.time.com/time/health/article/...40,00.html -snip- But while news of Earth's impending doom can sometimes seem exaggerated, there's one environmental disaster that never gets the coverage it really deserves: the state of the oceans. Most people know that wild fisheries are dwindling, and we might know that low-oxygen aquatic dead zones are blooming around the planet's most crowded coasts. But the oceans appear to be undergoing fundamental changes — many of them for the worse — that we can barely understand, in part because we barely understand that vast blue territory that covers 70% of the globe. -snip- Why is the rate of carbon being absorbed by the oceans so disturbing for marine scientists? Let's put it this way: the rate of carbon absorption right now is far greater than the rate seen some 55 million years ago. That was when the last globally significant extinction of marine species took place, when 50% of some groups of deep-sea animals were wiped out. We can try to restrict fishing, and we can work to protect sensitive coral reefs and other habitats for marine life. But if we can't figure out a way to curb global carbon emissions, we may alter the oceans beyond their ability to heal themselves — at least in ways that will support marine life as we know it. Despite the scary IPSO reports — and scores of others like it that have been published in the past — the oceans seem likely to continue to get less attention than they need and deserve .... -snip- ### |
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The creator of it and Adult Swim agreed to upload it to Adult Swim's youtube channel.
The episode wasn't allowed to air because of all the swearing in it. The plot is that Dexter removes his and Dee Dee's rudeness and it manifests into evil clones that curse up a storm.
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PONZA - There's no such thing as an undiscovered island in the Mediterranean. Or any other sea or ocean or bay or lake or other body of water in the world. Everything has been pretty much mapped and GPS'ed to death by now.
And you couldn't say this island is "off the beaten path," either, given that two ferry lines deliver hundreds of people a day from the port of Anzio, a one-hour train ride from Rome. But it definitely feels like a place that gets overshadowed by bigger, more famous cousins such as Sardinia and Capri.
It's just as well, as it's a treat to be in a place that doesn't appear to take itself too seriously. I've been here only a couple hours but the place feels decidedly working class, with tattered, battered boats in the harbour draped with fishing nets and floats and not laded with cases of Cristal or Dom Perignon.
There are lovely pink, blue and peach pastel buildings rising in the hills above the port, but the buildings just off the water's edge have almost as much paint peeled off their fronts as they do anything that sticks. But I like that.
And, as the girl at the front desk of my hotel, the Grand Hotel (a tad presumptuous given the fact my room is maybe 8 by 12 feet) Chiaia Di Luna, pointed out, it's not about the port. Or the promenade that sits just above the water. Or about the pizza or the restaurants or the inexpensive clothing shops or the souvenir stands selling garishly painted coral with blue dolphin shapes and a thermometer for seven Euros. No, it's about the water; blue-green Mediterannean magic that surges in and out of grottoes and laps against twisted, dark rocks and quietly rolls into the bay next door with chalky-cliffs that drop perfectly straight down from a height of a perhaps 200 feet or more and form a perfect half-circle.
It's a beautiful spot, even on a slightly murky evening with more clouds than sun on the horizon.
The town is just a town, but the cliffs and the grottoes and the water are beckoning me for a boat ride on Saturday. And I just might respond.
Anna Maria, the girl at the front desk, who grew up in Connecticut and speaks perfect English, thank goodness, tells me the island is mostly populated with Romans and Italians, with a sprinkling of folks from Northern Europe. A magazine I spotted on the boat on the way over had a spread on celebrity sightings, and mentioned that Jude Law and Sienna Miller were here a couple weeks ago.
The hotel here, the Almost Grand Hotel Chiaia Di Luna, does have a very nice pool with a deck all around it. Nice views of the harbour, too. Today they were quietly playing some Euro-beat versions of North American songs, including Stevie Wonder's wonderful "Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing" and, something I might not forgive them for in my lifetime, a bizarrely hip-hop flavoured version of "Free Fallin' by Tom Petty."
On the other hand, there was an intriguing song with a lovely Spanish guitar and electronic bird sounds, complete with that scratch-the-record/backward sound that deejays often use in dance halls, or whatever they're called these days, and, yes, that might possibly the worst description of a musical number in the history of western civilization...
Anyway, this is a cool spot. And if you're ever in Rome and need a quick, seaside break, I highly recommend it.


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A young filmmaker eager to document an unexplored element of the contemporary music scene achieves auditory enlightenment while discovering the duality of existence in director Les Claypool's seamless mockumentary. Electric Apricot is a band for the ages. Fearless in their musical experimentation and never afraid of breaking new ground, the band seeks to achieve a higher consciousness through music. When an aspiring documentarian sets out to prove there's more to modern music than the charts would suggest, what he discovers is a musical universe teeming with unbound creativity and limitless potential. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Subsequently beaten to a pulp by Wendy's rough-and-tumble girlfriend, Micki (Allyson Sereboff), and in desperate need of a steady job, disgruntled Arbie applies at the Chicken Bunker despite the fact that Wendy and Micki have launched a tireless campaign against the restaurant. But something supernatural is stirring in this poultry paradise; the spirits of the dead are not pleased that their eternal slumber has been interrupted. As the employees of the American Chicken Bunker begin dying a series of increasingly gruesome deaths, restaurant owner General Lee Roy (Robin L. Watkins) does his best to cover up the scandal and keep his customers in the dark. Meanwhile, the restless demons of the Tromahawk tribe vow to take revenge on the fast-food-loving masses by infecting every last piece of genetically modified poultry that is served at the Chicken Bunker. Perhaps if Arbie can prevent their curse from reaching beyond the drive-through window, he can save the world from a fate worse than trans fat and finally win back the girl of his dreams. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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What began as a construction-paper film short evolved into a veritable pop-culture phenomenon for Trey Parker and Matt Stone's outrageous animated comedy series, SOUTH PARK. Centered on the hilarious misadventures of four potty-mouthed grade-schoolers in the perpetually wintry environs of South Park, Colorado, the series skewers the vagaries of the modern American cultural landscape with politically incorrect humor and satirical plotlines ranging from homophobia and terrorism to boy bands and talking poo. This collection presents 10 episodes chosen by Parker and Stone as the series' best: "AWESOM-O," "Best Friends Forever," "Casa Bonita," "Good Times with Weapons," "Red Hot Catholic Love," "The Return of the Fellowship of the Rings to the Two Towers," "Scott Tenorman Must Die," "Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset," "Towelie," and "Trapped in the Closet."
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In a rare and refreshing reversal of roles, filmmakers put the powerful Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA for short) under the microscope for inspection in Academy Award-nominated director Kirby Dick's incisive look at stateside cinema's most notorious non-censoring censors. Compelled by the staggering amount of power that the MPAA ratings board wields, the filmmaker seeks out the true identities of the anonymous elite who control what films make it to the multiplex. He even goes so far as to hire a private investigator to stake out MPAA headquarters and expose Hollywood's best-kept secret. Along the way, Dick speaks with numerous filmmakers whose careers have been affected by the seemingly random and sexual-content obsessed judgments of the MPAA, including John Waters, Mary Harron, Darren Aranofsky, Wayne Kramer, Kevin Smith, Matt Stone, and Atom Egoyan. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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The Bell Jar (The Sixties in America)
The Work
In The Bell Jar, Esther Greenwood, a nineteen-year-old girl from a small eastern town, was an excellent student who won many awards including a college scholarship. As a contest winner, she received a one-month appointment as a college representative to the editorial board of a well-known New York fashion magazine. Her month in New York provided many maturing experiences, but emotionally, she still felt very insecure. Esther did not believe that she had the skills necessary to fulfill a traditional woman's role. She was bothered by society's double standard and different social expectations for men and women. She was drawn to the life of change and excitement enjoyed by men, the life she associated with a writing career. She felt, however, pressure to settle down, marry, and have children. Her self-doubt coupled with the awareness of differing role expectations laid the foundation for an internal conflict that resulted in depression. Because she could not eat or sleep, she was referred to a psychiatrist, who suggested shock treatments. These treatments did not relieve her condition, and she began to contemplate and later attempt suicide. With the help of a benefactor, Esther was treated at a private asylum with insulin and electric shock treatments. As her condition improved, Esther moved to less restrictive environments and was accorded more privileges. She described her relief as the "bell jar lifted." Upon her release,...
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Places Discussed (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
*New York City
*New York City. Approximately the first third of The Bell Jar is set in the urbane, cosmopolitan environs of Manhattan, where Esther Greenwood—a young, ambitious college junior from a sheltered Boston suburb—is a summer intern for Mademoiselle magazine after winning a writing contest. Filled with aspirations of entering a magazine publishing career after college, Esther welcomes the opportunity to get her feet wet in a major New York publishing house a full year before her graduation from college. However, shortly after she settles in New York, a host of disillusioning events tarnishes her view of the city and her romantic dreams of seeking fame and fortune there. Although painfully aware that she is "supposed to be having the time of [her] life" in Manhattan, Esther cannot cope with the intensely competitive, highly chauvinistic atmosphere of New York publishing in the 1950's. She suffers an emotional and physical collapse that ends in her return to her mother's home in suburban Boston weeks before the scheduled end of her internship. Esther likens her untimely breakdown and forced retreat from the city of her dreams to "watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction."
*Boston suburbs
*Boston suburbs. Esther's family home, to which she returns from New York. Rather than providing her with the peace and quiet she needs to regain her bearings...
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Form and Content (Masterplots II: Juvenile & Young Adult Literature Series, Supplement)
The Bell Jar traces college student Esther Greenwood's trip to New York City, awarded to her for her literary skills, and her subsequent breakdown. Esther narrates how, unsuccessful both professionally and socially in New York, she falls into a depression that leads to an obsession with suicide and finally to a serious suicide attempt. She feels, she says, like a person in a bell jar, breathing her own sour air and looking out at a world distorted by the curved glass. The tale reflects in its form Esther's psychological deterioration, as the chapters become shorter and the transitions blur as she moves toward her major breakdown. The narrative then becomes coherent again as Esther, through hospitalization and the concern of a sympathetic female psychiatrist, Dr. Nolan, gradually works her way back toward mental health.
The story begins in New York, where Esther is one of a group of young women who have been awarded guest editorships at a fashion magazine in New York. Esther has always been a top student and a scholarship winner, but she finds herself unprepared for the challenges of the city. She cannot bond with her fellow award winners, not the wild Doreen nor the innocent Betsy nor any of the others. Moreover, she finds herself unable to accomplish anything. Her editor is critical of her work, and she does not succeed in losing her virginity, one of her goals. Flashbacks describe her relationship with her former boyfriend, Buddy Willard,...
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Form and Content (Masterplots II: Women's Literature Series)
From the first page of The Bell Jar, with Esther Greenwood describing a day in New York City during the summer of 1952, when she is a guest-editor of Mademoiselle magazine, author Sylvia Plath vividly re-creates the perspective of a depressed, highly intelligent, sensitive young woman who feels herself losing contact with reality. This oppressively introspective atmosphere is relieved, however, by Esther's sardonic and incisive insights into life's unfairness and the often-amusing accounts of her own gauche experiences.
Esther has spent her adult life up to this summer between her junior and senior years of college in intellectual study and competition at a prestigious university. Although the round of parties, plays, and professional writing opportunities working for the magazine seems to mark another success in her life, instead she is experiencing a feeling of frustration and failure as she faces the choices of life beyond college.
Torn between her personal needs and society's expectations, Esther is assessing her past life, especially the value of studying for academic awards, her present desire for personal fulfillment as a woman, and her need to choose a professional career for the future that will both support her financially and fulfill her aesthetically. Her inability to find solutions that will include all of her needs is driving her into a reclusive mental state. Before she leaves New York City at the end of...
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Context (Masterplots II: Women's Literature Series)
The Bell Jar was first published in England in 1963 under the name of Victoria Lucas; it was published in the United States eight years later. It is one of the early novels to handle self-consciously three of the major concerns in the women's movement: a woman's place in society, the development of her creative ability, and the place of femininity in the life of an artist. The fact that the novel was published after the author's suicide heightened the implicit message: There are few role models in society for the creative woman.
Sidonie Smith, in A Poetics of Women's Autobiography: Marginality and the Fictions of Self-Realization (1987), emphasizes the choice women writers have to make between social ostracism and developing a voice of their own. In The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination (1979), Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar state the conflict clearly: "For a woman-artist is, after all, a woman—that is her 'problem'— and if she denies her own gender, she inevitably confronts an identity crisis as severe as the anxiety of authorship she is trying to surmount."
George Stade, in his essay "Womanist Fiction and Male Characters" (1985), believes Plath to be the first of a line of female authors in whose work "the rejection of men in all their ways is at last explicit." Not one of the males in The Bell Jar—Buddy Willard, Marco,...
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Historical Context
Absence of Feminism in the 1940s and 1950s
It is impossible to fully understand The Bell Jar without a realization of the relative absence of feminism in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. Both decades were fairly prosperous ones in American history, and women's social and financial standing usually hung on their husbands' occupation and respective income. Although more than six million women went to work when America was engaged in World War II, after the war ended, many were encouraged to leave the work force. Dr. Benjamin Spock, who published the book Baby and Child Care, once even proposed that the federal government subsidize housewives to discourage them from entering into the work force. In Modern Woman: The Lost Sex (1946), authors Marynia Farnham and Ferdinand Lundberg argued that women who worked sacrificed their essential femininity. While, of course, many single women worked out of economic necessity, they were not encouraged to show naked ambition or to stay in the work force indefinitely. A married woman—with or without children—who earned as much as her husband was rare.
Of course, women who worked in menial or low-paying jobs were less of a threat to mainstream America. Hence, in The Bell Jar, Mrs. Greenwood encourages her daughter, Esther, to learn shorthand, because that skill will at least guarantee her some kind of job after college.
In 1963, Betty Friedan's The...
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Literary Techniques
An accomplished student and teacher of fiction, Sylvia Plath had at her disposal the full arsenal of literary techniques, and she employs many of them in The Bell Jar. For example, most of the Buddy Willard episodes are recorded in a series of flashbacks, and Plath also uses the technique of "defamiliarization" (so coined by the Soviet critic Shklovsky), by means of which the reader is invited to regard his stale "reality" in fresh and disturbing ways.
However, the novel's most-discussed technique is its "doubling," its use of polarities — like the negative and positive poles of electricity — to shed light on characters and events. Electricity itself is used in this way: early references to the electrocutions of the Rosenbergs serve to foreshadow Esther's electroshock sessions. Similarly, nearly every character in the novel has his double. For example, the egregiously abstracted Dr. Gordon is contrasted to Dr. Nolan; the asexual (or perhaps homosexual) Constantin to the rapist Marco; and rebellious Doreen to conforming Betsy. Most important, Esther herself encounters a series of personal doubles, as suggested by the recurring mirror imagery in the novel. The most crucial such double is Joan Gilling, who, like Esther, has been an academic achiever and the near-fiancee of Buddy Willard; Esther must finally refute Joan's sullen retreat into lesbianism and suicide.
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Compare and Contrast
1950s and 1960s: As recently as 1950, men received approximately 76 percent of all degrees conferred in the United States. At the Master's level, men received roughly 2.5 times as many degrees as women.
Today: In 1993, men received approximately 46 percent of all degrees conferred in the United States. Since 1986, women began receiving more Master's degrees than men, and the pattern continues.
1950s and 1960s: In 1960, about 59 percent of single women were part of the American work force, about 32 percent of married women belonged to the work force, and about 42 percent of "other" (widowed, divorced, separated) women belonged to the work force.
Today: In 1994, About 68 percent of single women were part of the American work force, about 61 percent of married women belonged to the work force, and about 48 percent of "other" (widowed, divorced, separated) women belonged to the work force.
1950s and 1960s: The concept of date rape did not exist; if a woman went on a date with a man and was raped, she did not have any legal recourse.
Today: Many more women are successfully suing men for date rape.
1950s and 1960s: National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) on suicide in America can never be entirely accurate or reliable, as many people who attempt or commit suicide often conceal their intention. Their families often conceal the suicide, too. However,...
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Topics for Further Study
Explore some of the current career opportunities for females that did not exist in the 1950s.
What are some of the circumstances that might lead a person to consider suicide? What are some indications that a person may be contemplating suicide? What can you do to intervene? Investigate the debate surrounding assisted suicide and argue one position.
If a bright young person comes from a family without much money, how can that person improve his or her chances of obtaining a higher education? Is it better for that person to work full-time and put off college for a while or to work part-time and study part-time? Back up your opinion with some solid research.
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Literary Precedents
Viewed as a sensitive youth's initiation into the ills of the world, The Bell Jar stands squarely in a tradition that looks back to works like Voltaire's Candide (1759) and such examples of the Kiinstlerroman ("artist novel") as James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). Among more recent works, the novel has prompted comparisons with Hannah Green's best-selling I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1964), an altogether less subtle story of an impressionable girl's stay in a mental hospital. Most commonly, however, Esther Greenwood has been likened to Holden Caulfield of J. D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye (1951). But Charles Newman points out that Esther, unlike Holden, is locked in the serious conflict "between a potential artist and society, rather than the cult of youth versus the cult of middle age." Newman himself places Plath's work in the tradition of New England Transcendentalism and Calvinism, "a religious asceticism which reappears in an aesthetic guise." In this sense, for example, Buddy Willard sparks Esther's contempt when he exposes himself to her, violating thereby his authoritative, masculine role.
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Several of Plath's short stories and essays are collected in Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams, and Other Prose Writings (1977). Most of Plath's short stories are slick, conventional tales which she wrote to pander to the very women's magazines she lampoons in The Bell Jar; accordingly, they hold little interest for admirers of the novel and the poetry. An exception is the surreal title story, first published in 1968 by the Atlantic Monthly and included in The Best American Short Stories: 1969 (1969). In "Johnny Panic," a young clerk in a city hospital types up transcripts of interviews with psychiatric outpatients. She quickly becomes a connoisseur of these recorded dreams and visions, which she sees as the inspiration of Johnny Panic, the common author of all nightmares. Finally, the clerk herself is trapped by a sinister hospital administrator and put on the electroshock table, where she is "shaken like a leaf in the teeth of glory." The clerk, who sees herself as "Jeremiah vision-bitten in the Land of Cockaigne," bears obvious similarities to The Bell Jar's Esther Greenwood and to the persona of the Ariel poems.
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The Bell Jar was adapted into a well-intentioned but forgettable 1979 film (directed by Larry Peerce for Avco Embassy; screenplay by Marjorie Kellogg). The motion picture, starring Marilyn Hassett as Esther, is largely faithful to Plath's plot, but the film was almost universally panned for its wrenching alterations in the novel's characters: Buddy Willard (Jameson Parker) becomes a sexually aggressive square, the fashion magazine editor (Barbara Barrie) is a brittle closet lesbian, and Esther's psychological woes are milked dry for sensationalism. Mary Louise Weller (as Doreen) and Julie Harris (as Esther's mother) were generally praised for their performances.
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Media Adaptations
The movie The Bell Jar, based on Sylvia Plath's autobiographical novel of the same name, was directed by Larry Peerce and starred Marilyn Hassett, Julie Harris, Anne Jackson, and Barbara Barrie. Released by Avco Embassy in 1979, it was neither a critical nor commercial success, in large part because the script does not examine the reasons for Esther Greenwood's depression and mental breakdown.
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What Do I Read Next?
Linda Wagner-Martin's Sylvia Plath: A Biography, published in 1987, provides a balanced portrait of the writer, examining both her depression and talent.
J D. Salinger's novel Catcher in the Rye, published in 1953, examines the troubled adolescence of Holden Caulfield and the phoniness he detects in most adults.
Sylvia Plath's collection of poetry, Ariel, was published posthumously in 1965 and contains some of Plath's most haunting work. With the publication of these poems written toward the end of Plath's short life, the author soon acquired a cult-like reputation.
Eileen Aird's Sylvia Plath: Her Life and Work, published in 1973, is a good book for students unfamiliar with Plath's poetry and reputation.
The Colossus (1960), Sylvia Plath's only collection of poetry published during her lifetime, has many of her poems written in the 1950s.
Sylvia Plath's The Collected Poems, published in 1981, includes all of Plath's verse, including many formerly unpublished pieces. It won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 1982.
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Bibliography and Further Reading
Paula Bennett, My Life a Loaded Gun, Beacon, 1986.
Lynda K. Bundtzen, "Women in The Bell Jar Two Allegories" from Plath's Incarnations Women and the Creative Process, University of Michigan Press, 1983.
Rupert Butler, "New American Fiction Three Disappointing Novels—But One Good Time," in Time and Tide, January 31, 1963, p. 34.
C. B. Cox, editorial in Critical Quarterly, Autumn, 1966, p. 195.
Louis Dublin, Suicide: A Sociological and Statistical Study, Ronald, 1963.
David Holbrook, Sylvia Plath Poetry and Existence, Athlone, 1976.
Laurence Lerner, "New Novels," in Listener, January 31, 1963, p. 215.
M. L. Rosenthal, "Blood and Plunder," in Spectator, September 30, 1966, p. 418.
Robert Scholes, review in New York Times Book Review, April 11, 1971, p. 7.
Stan Smith, "Attitudes Counterfeiting Life: The Irony of Artifice in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar," in Critical Quarterly, Autumn, 1975, pp. 247-60.
Patricia Meyer Spacks, "A Chronicle of Women," in Hudson River, Spring, 1972, p. 164.
Tony Tanner, in his City of Words: American Fiction, 1950-1970, Harper & Row, 1971.
Robert Taubman, "Anti-heroes," New Statesman, January 25, 1963, pp. 127-28.
Linda Wagner-Martin, The Bell Jar: A...
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Suggested Readings
Aird, Eileen. Sylvia Plath: Her Life and Works. New York: Harper & Row, 1973.
Alexander, Paul, ed. Ariel Ascending: Writings About Sylvia Plath. New York: Harper & Row, 1985. The essays in this volume concentrate on Plath as a craftsman. The two essays "Esther Came Back Like a Retreaded Tire," by Robert Scholes, and "Victoria Lucas and Elly Higginbottom," by Vance Bourjaily, offer interpretations dealing solely with The Bell Jar.
Alexander, Paul. Rough Magic. New York: Penguin Books, 1991. As thorough a biography as one could wish.
Allen, Mary. "Sylvia Plath's Defiance: The Bell Jar." In The Necessary Blankness: Women in Major American Fiction of the Sixties. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1976.
Alvarez, Alfred. The Savage God. New York: Random House, 1971.
Axelrod, Steven Gould. Sylvia Plath: The Wound and the Cure of Words. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. In the preface, the author describes his work as "a biography of the imagination." The index indicates several references to The Bell Jar. The chapter "A Woman Famous Among Women," proposing Virginia Woolf's influence on Plath, offers an interesting...
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