Revisiting Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar as a feminist response to McCarthyism release_halcdw7bfbdvpiidfokoy567ju

by Maria Laura Arce Alvarez

Published in Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses by Universidad de Alicante Servicio de Publicaciones.

2024   Issue 40, p43-62

Abstract

The present article introduces a feminist and political analysis of Sylvia Plath's novel The Bell Jar, considering it a cultural response to McCarthyism. In order to do that, the article focuses on the importance Plath gives to the Rosenberg's case in the novel and particularly in the relevance Ethel Rosenberg's death sentence had to awaken a female consciousness for the women of the 1950s in America. The female body turns fundamental for a feminist struggle that Plath creates in the novel to deconstruct the imposed female roles that helped McCarthy control the private lives of the Americans. Sixty years after Plath's death and its publication, The Bell Jar becomes a fundamental text for understanding contemporary feminist literature.
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