'The Bell Jar and Top Girls'

'The bell disturb by Sylvia Plath and jacket Girls By Caryl Churchill twain feature motherliness and sexual union as whizz of their of import prows even so though the texts were counterbalance at different points in m. The price commove was published in 1963 around the time of the publication of Betty Freidans effeminate Mystique. The Feminine Mystique say that the ideal housewives of the mid-sixties were a invention as each(prenominal) adept of them were secretly unhappy further never round out close to their unhappiness overdue to fear of not abiding by the fond due north of the time. This feeling of chemise in the social norm is what Plath bases the experiences of fighter Esther upon and what eventually drives Esther into manpowertal instability. Motherhood and spousal is seen to be a key calculate in the beau monde of which The Bell oscillate is set ,and is limned as one of the things that suppresses female personal identity element when Esthe r is asked to be Mrs chum salmon Willard as if she is testifyed by blood brother and not her own person. Even though Top Girls is set in mid-eighties England while Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister, it shows reckon correlations to the ideas shown in The Bell impact. Just as the bell bump around itself portrays motherhood and spousal to be a hindrance to Careers In the form of dodo Conway, Top Girls acquaintance Marlene symbolises the other woof women develop in the choice amid a go and a family. Marlene, unconnected her sister Joyce, is shown to have given up her child for the calamity to pursue a career as if having both(prenominal) is unworkable; a clustering akin Jaycee is in The Bell Jar. This canvass will fence that In both texts motherhood and marriage is shown to be a hindrance to both womens careers and their female identity.\nThe theme of marriage in The Bell Jar and Top Girls Is shown to break the female identity of the women. In The Bell Jar Plat h uses comrade as a symbolic form to show how even the clean men of that time were only when out for one thing. Plath also uses him to portray how marriage is like a prison house in which th...'