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The Female Vs society in Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar” | ||
| journal of the college of basic education | ||
| Article 1, Volume 14, Issue 61, 2010, Pages 133-140 | ||
| Author | ||
| T. A. Maha Kadum Kareem | ||
| Abstract | ||
| In a biographical note by Lois Ames, Sylvia Plath says about her novel, The Bell Jar, “….I’ve tried to picture my world and the people in it as seen through the distorting lens of a bell jar.” In this autobiographical novel, the heroine is looking at people through this distorted lens. The novel describes the oppressive and patriarchal society in which the main character, Esther Greenwood, lives. Her career to be a poet is ambitious according to the standards of the 1950’s American society because it was a field dominated by men at that time. Thus, her struggle is that of a female who tires to find and prove herself in a masculine world. Materialistically and socially, she is poor according to the social standard. She cannot but use her talent as a poet in order to go on living; hence she depends on keeping her scholarship and winning prizes. She lives in a society where women’s life is constructed according to certain standards that curb women’s ambitions, which Sylvia Plath has rejected strongly. | ||
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