Mingshi Zheng Professor Bostick English 2 08 May 2015 The Feminism of the Yellow Wallpaper In the 19th century‚ male chauvinism was the dominant social idea in America. In the domestic environment‚ women had to obey to men. Women could not violate what men asked them to do and this oppressive environment had important impacts on how women perceived themselves and their roles in society. It was very unfair to all the women at that period of history. Nevertheless‚ with the gradual emergence of feminism
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From The Bell Jar‚ by Sylvia Plath‚ you can tell that Esther has many problems‚ yet it isn’t until you get deeper into the novel that you notice this originates from self-esteem issues. From the beginning‚ Esther has a critical eye on society and the people in her life‚ this contrasts from almost all of the characters in the book. Most of the other characters are portrayed as smug and conceited‚ being unaware of current events and eerily involved in others‚ as well as‚ their own social lives. Esther’s
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Woman today would find themselves lost in the times of the mid-1900’s society. Through the novel The Bell Jar‚ the reader will experience society’s expectations of women‚ their relationships with men‚ and how they follow right along with what the main character’s beliefs. The reader will learn to understand that there are punishments of society when one does not do what they should. The search for her identity and the acceptance of her truth has inspired women in future generations. Through the character
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the expectations of women have changed. During the 1950s‚ women had an extreme amount of pressure from society to be the "perfect" woman. In her novel‚ The Bell Jar‚ Sylvia Plath’s character Esther Greenwood is sent to a mental institution and later tries to commit suicide as a result of the societal pressures inflicted upon her. The Bell Jar was set in the northeastern United States during the 1950s. During this time period there was an expectation that women
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In Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar‚ the appearances of color in the story gives the readers some of the idea how the characters’ are throughout the novel. The most interesting thing is when the color in the novel appeals to the abnormality of the personality and emotions of each character. Esther Greenwood‚ the main character in The Bell Jar‚ has a very significant mental development from the beginning of the story. Her mental breakdown is affected by the other characters and the environment. In this
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The Yellow Wall-Paper is a story about a woman that knows she is sick‚ mentally (Stetson‚ 647). Her husband‚ John is a physician and he believes she can get better over time but in order for her to get better they had to move to a house that was fairly secluded from the town (Stetson‚ 647). John ensured that she would only be able to stay in her room which he had picked for her at the top of the house where she would not be able to do anything other than sleep and look out her window (Stetson‚ 647)
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‘The Catcher in the Rye’ and ‘The Bell Jar’ are two comparable bildungsroman novels that handle the topics ‘loneliness and madness’ in ways typical to modern American Literature‚ techniques including irreverent humour and terse prose. Yet it must be considered that Plath and Salinger depict altered views on loneliness and madness. Whilst both authors are attentive to the superficial values of 1950’s America‚ Plath’s novel is individualised as it seems to focus on the darker side of society‚ inclusive
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In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story The Yellow Wallpaper‚ the female protagonist veers from the majority of patriarchal societies because of her distinct feelings of frustration‚ alienation‚ and emotional and creative repression within this social formation. Ultimately‚ in order to escape this early twentieth century state of mind‚ the female protagonist goes insane. However tragic this may appear on the surface‚ the suggestion of deliverance from her restricted environment is one of freedom
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Final Essay Through the feminist lens‚ equality‚ dehumanization‚ and stereotypes are seen within The Bell Jar‚ A Streetcar named desire‚ and A Farewell to Arms. The time period and author of each book are major reasons to why stereotypes are so strongly enforced. The time period of these novels 1940 to 1960’s was a time when women didn ’t have much status‚ men were superior and women were only housewives. Based on the gender‚ the author comes across these aspects differently by how they characterize
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Sylvia Plath’s semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar‚ demonstrates the startling effects of an oppressive patriarchal society on a bright and accomplished woman. Esther’s descent into madness can be attributed towards 1950’s America’s absurd expectations of women‚ the pressure women place on each other and the patronising attitude of the medical world. All throughout the novel‚ characters such as Esther’s own mother‚ Buddy Willard and Mrs. Willard all exist as manifestations of the suffocating
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