The Bell Jar exemplifies how violence is almost an inevitable consequence of any sexual relationships between men and women in a patriarchal society where men hold the puppet strings and dangle them in their favor. While it's considered natural for men to have sexual desires and to indulge these desires outside marriage, women are expected to remain chaste until they marry, and when they do marry, sex is all about having babies – it has nothing to do with romance or intimacy. Concern towards rape during the twentieth century, was of less concern with endangerment with a woman’s safety than it was a concern by men the loss of potential marriageable property. In The Bell Jar sex is associated with violence and in ways that blur the line between
