Unveiling Gender Roles: Analysis of The Bell Jar by Slyvia Plath in terms of 1950s American Society

Batuhan Bülbül

Istanbul Aydın University

In literary criticism, gender roles have always been under discussion from a variety of perspectives. Especially in 1950s American Society, after World War II within the effects of disillusionment, there have been overwhelming changes in society in terms of culture and politics. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath as a novel narrates these important compendiums in terms of gender roles by considering the new transformative culture of the USA. Thus, Plath strongly narrates these issues from such a perspective that the reader of the novel can obtain new perspectives towards relevant issues. Therefore, this paper aims to analyze the novel The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath in terms of gender roles from a feminist perspective by considering 1950s American Society, sexual double standards, identity of women, and the very discussion will be done within a perception of Simone De Beauvoir’s The Second Sex.

Article link: https://www.asianinstituteofresearch.org/JSParchives/unveiling-gender-roles%3A-analysis-of-the-bell-jar-by-slyvia-plath-in-terms-of-1950s-american-society