Essays about: "the bell jar"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 12 essays containing the words the bell jar.

  1. 6. Madness or Femininity – A Woman's Options : A Feminist Analysis of Mental Illness in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Author : Michaela Cedergren; [2020]
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  3. 7. SEX AND SUCCESS. A Feminist Analysis of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Agnese Boffano; [2018-01-19]
    Keywords : engelska; Sylvia Plath; The Bell Jar; Feminist Criticism; sexuality; sexual hierarchy;

    Abstract : Sexuality is an subject area that affects the power relations between genders, where one gender uses sex to subjugate and control the other. Sylvia Plath comments on this use of sexuality in her semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar, while also criticising how sex is used to limit women’s success but used to enhance men’s success. READ MORE

  4. 8. The Destructive Performance - A Feminist Reading of Three Texts Written by Sylvia Plath, Margaret Atwood and Doris Lessing

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Johanna Molin; [2018]
    Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman and Doris Lessing’s “To Room Nineteen” are three literary texts in which the three protagonists seem to play a role which makes them miserable and suicidal. This essay explores what elements that are involved in making these women unhappy and self-destructive. READ MORE

  5. 9. "I was my own woman" - Breakdown and Recovery in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Karolina Kitanoska; [2013]
    Keywords : women’s role in the 1950’s and 1960’s; Individuality; identity crisis; housewife ideal; depression; eating disorder; objectification; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : During the 1950’s and 1960’s an unexplainable phenomenon arose amongst middle class women in North America. Women in the suburbs experienced a feeling of emptiness even though they believed they had everything they could ever ask for in life. READ MORE

  6. 10. Power play in The Bell Jar and "The Yellow Wallpaper" : How power play is manifested towards the protagonists in The Bell Jar and "The Yellow Wallpaper"

    University essay from Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL

    Author : Ana Vujovic; [2011]
    Keywords : power play; mental illness; recovery; treatment; patient-caregiver relationship; Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Sylvia Plath; Reet Sjögren;

    Abstract : Abstract This paper will attempt to analyze how similar forms of power play are manifested towards the protagonists in both The Bell Jar and “The Yellow Wallpaper”. The aim of the essay is to investigate how power play affects the protagonists’ relations with their caregivers and how it affects their treatments. READ MORE