that can be replaced as easily as the kitchen mat that represents the insignificance of Mrs.
Willard (Bonds 54). Esther only manages to free herself temporarily. She feels better at the moment, but The Bell Jar is still hanging over her head. She has not succeeded in fulfilling her aspirations but instead learned how to live in the world of her time, gained control and confidence in her decisions and came to terms with her complicated personality. This outcome can be considered an important achievement and a kind of liberation.
Atwood’s Surfacing appears to be less ambiguous than the other two works. Giving up her sanity exempts the Narrator from the bounds of civilization, its conventions and demands, and allows her a more profound access …show more content…
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Willard (Bonds 54). Esther only manages to free herself temporarily. She feels better at the moment, but The Bell Jar is still hanging over her head. She has not succeeded in fulfilling her aspirations but instead learned how to live in the world of her time, gained control and confidence in her decisions and came to terms with her complicated personality. This outcome can be considered an important achievement and a kind of liberation.
Atwood’s Surfacing appears to be less ambiguous than the other two works. Giving up her sanity exempts the Narrator from the bounds of civilization, its conventions and demands, and allows her a more profound access …show more content…
“Untangling the Roots of Modern Sex Roles: A Survey of Four Centuries of Change.”
Signs 4.2 (1978): 237- 252. JSTOR. Web. 27 Nov. 2012.
Bonds, Diane S. “The separative self in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar.” Women’s Studies, Vol. 18
(1990): 49- 64. Web. 27 Nov. 2012.
Budick, E. Miller, “The Feminist Discourse of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar.” College English, 49.8
(1987): 872- 885. JSTOR. Web. 27 Nov. 2012.
https://is.muni.cz/th/361412/ff_b/Bachelor_s_thesis_Vostinarova.txt
Gilbert, Sandra M., and Gubar, Susan. The madwoman in the attic: the woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination. New Haven: Yale UP, 1984. Print.
Hall, Caroline King Barnard. “Chapter 2: The Bell Jar.” Sylvia Plath. Boston: Twayne, 1978. Print.
MacDonald, Michael. “Madness and Healing in Nineteenth-Century America.“ Rev. of A Generous
Confidence: Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Art of Asylum-Keeping, 1840-1883, Nancy Tomes. Reviews in American History 13.2 (1985): 211- 216. JSTOR. Web. 27 Nov. 2012.
Niederhoff, Burkhard. “The Return of the Dead in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing and Alias Grace.”
Connotations 16.1-3 (2006-2007). Literature Resource Center. Web. 27 Nov. 2012.
Oikkonen, Venla. “Mad Embodiments: Female Corporeality and Insanity in Janet Frame’s Faces in …show more content…
pag. Web. 27 Nov. 2012.
Perloff Marjorie G, and Sylvia Plath. “‘A Ritual for Being Born Twice’: Sylvia Plath’s 'The Bell
Jar'.” Contemporary Literature 13.4 (1972): 507- 522. Web. 27 Nov. 2012.
Peterson, Jeanne M. “No Angels in the House: The Victorian Myth and the Paget Women.” The American
Historical Review 89.3 (1984): 677- 708. JSTOR. Web. 27 Nov. 2012.
Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar. London: Faber and Faber, 1966. Print.
Showalter, Elaine. “Nervous Women: Sex Roles and Sick Roles.” The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture 1830-1980. New York: Penguin, 1987. Print.
Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll, and Charles Rosenberg. “The Female Animal: Medical and Biological Views of Woman and Her Role in Nineteenth-Century America.” The Journal of American History 60.2 (1973):
332- 356. JSTOR. Web. 27 Nov. 2012.
Tolan, Fiona. “Guilt and Innocence in the Community and the Self: An Examination of Mutual
Responsibility in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing.” British Journal of Canadian Studies 17.1. (2004):
105- 118. Literature Resource Center. Web. 27 Nov.