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Comparing The Bell Jar And The Yellow Wallpaper

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Sylvia Plath’s 1963 novel ‘The Bell Jar’ and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s 1892 short story ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ both feature a female protagonist that experiences a provoked descent into madness and hysteria as a result of the prolonged and unjust treatment of women situated in a society dominated by the male authority figure. This societal oppression is a proven factor in the deterioration of the mental and physical health of both protagonists and therefore impacts their lives as well as the choices they make. Plath’s The Bell Jar can be seen as a bildungsroman tale of the young Esther Greenwood, entering college in New York in the early 1950s. Esther’s dreams of becoming a professional writer and desire for sexual exploration outweigh her
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