Abstract
This research article purports to examine Sylvia Plath’s selected poetry and her only fiction prose The Bell Jar. The aesthetic bulk of literature provided by Plath enunciates to elevate the autonomy of repressed American women and the morbid reality of 1950’s conformist American society, through her female characters. It examines Plath’s selected poetry by extricating the oppressed female position in the society, who were in quest to devise their own identity away from the domains of misogynistic-identity. By exposing the women caught upin the throes against normative gender identity after Cold War, and its deleterious impacts on them. Hence, portraying the patriarchal constraints and gender stereotyping that became an obstacle to an iconic nineteen-year old Esther Greenwood’s dreams under a symbolic “bell jar”. This bell jar, indicates the stifling patriarchal constraints, where Esther is imprisoned under its glass dome. Eventually, aggravating her mental health, and leading her life towards desolation, emptiness and identity crisis
Sadia Zahoor,, Saima Manzoor. (2020) A World under Men’s Duress: Gender Stereotyping, Patriarchy andMental Turmoil in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jarand Selected Poetry, The ELF Annual Research Journal, Volume 22, Issue 1.
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