![]() ![]() ![]() All the so-call social restored had became a huge spiritual cage, a bell jar, which was supposed to be used for observation in scientific field, for women, especially for well-educated, intellectual women. Social convention has legalized and naturalized the ideology of women being inferior to men through major social institutions like church, schools, hospitals, prisons, social media, traditions and even scientific theorists, like Freud. The social order needed to be restored urgently, the constraining power of social ideology on people, especially on women, had been strengthened. With the narration of the unforeseen events she has been through in 1953, she has demonstrated us the fact that the society was marked with post-war traumas. As a female writer with tragedy color, the intention of this novel of Sylvia Plath was to ‘liberate herself from her past’. ![]() As the only full-length novel she left on the world, some of its features such as the nature of autobiography, extreme theme and feminist philosophy have continuously attracted the attention of its readers and scholars all around the world. The novel the Bell Jar was published before Sylvia Plath committed her forth suicide, which was successful eventually. ![]()
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