She told her she hated Jane to such an extent, she didn't want Jane having a good, pleasant life with her uncle. If a woman got divorced, she was being selfish. In response, middle-class women felt further trapped in a marriage. They were too afraid of the social consequences of getting a divorce: social outcast, no friends, people ignoring them.
It soon became the job of a wife in the nineteenth century to create a calm, soothing environment for their stressed husband. Propaganda soon started, attempting to convince wives to stay with their husbands; The idea of divorce, left their husbands stressed and depressed. Viramontes made great use of strategies throughout her novel. The first strategy is the bildungsroman novel, the protagonist at the beginning of the novel is seen by her parents as an outcast for not meeting the standards of what a girl should behave as.
Her self- development is different than those of her sisters. Her marriage is one of her weaknesses. In another instance, a weakness is revealed as she shows concern for her reputation. Greenwood would misbehave — or scream — or cry. Previous Joan Gilling. Next Doreen. Removing book from your Reading List will also remove any bookmarked pages associated with this title.
Are you sure you want to remove bookConfirmation and any corresponding bookmarks? My Preferences My Reading List. The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath. HarperCollins Publishers , p. It exemplifies her feeling of being imprisoned in a world and society she can neither accept nor reject and further reveals the identification of author and protagonist.
Both Plath and Esther suffer from living under this sort of glass bell jar which makes it hard for them to breathe and to break free from the regulations of contemporary society. The author Sylvia Plath herself has experienced most of the events in the novel, including psychological disease, depression and suicide attempts.
Moreover, most of the characters in The Bell Jar are based on people Plath knew and loved, although she often draws caricatures or uses the device of irony when describing them. She can hardly decide which way of life to choose and experiences a strong inner conflict between her wish of leading the life of a poet and that of a loving wife and mother.
Greenwood in the course of the story. In doing so, I will also examine the meaning of maternal bonds in reference to a couple of further female relationships in the novel. For all her life, Esther has got the urge to be her own self, regardless of what others expect her to be. In public, however, she wears a mask, builds up a facade and takes on the roles others expect her to play although her inner self strongly rejects these roles.
Esther never feels integrated, she criticizes the superficial world of cover girls and fashionable magazines.
Nevertheless, she also belongs to this world and works for a fashion magazine in New York. Whereas she rejects the traditional life of a mother and wife, which seems boring to her, she at the same time thinks about what it is like being married and having children. View 1 comment. Write a comment More questions about The Bell Jar…. The Bell Jar. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read.
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