The Bell Jar and Top Girls

The tam-tam sway by Sylvia Plath and diadem Girls By Caryl Churchill twain(prenominal) feature maternal quality and wedding as unity of their primary(prenominal) themes even though the texts were found at different points in date. The Bell Jar was create in 1963 around the time of the publication of Betty Freidans womanish Mystique. The Feminine Mystique stated that the ideal housewives of the sixties were a myth as each one of them were secretly unhappy but never spoke by around their unhappiness due to misgiving of not abiding by the affectionate normality of the time. This handstal picture of displacement in the social norm is what Plath bases the experiences of whiz Esther upon and what lastly drives Esther into mental instability. Motherhood and labor union is seen to be a discover factor in the conjunction of which The Bell Jar is found ,and is saluteed as one of the things that suppresses female person individuation when Esther is asked to be Mrs Bud dy Willard as if she is project by Buddy and not her own person. Even though Top Girls is set in 1980s England while Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister, it hand overs direct correlations to the ideas shown in The Bell Jar. Just as the bell jar itself portrays maternity and marriage to be a hindrance to Careers In the diverseness of Dodo Conway, Top Girls protagonist Marlene symbolises the other option women exact in the choice mingled with a career and a family. Marlene, unlike her sister Joyce, is shown to have given up her tyke for the chance to pursue a career as if having both is impossible; a solidifying like Jaycee is in The Bell Jar. This essay will suggest 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 demolish the female identity of the women. In The Bell Jar Plath uses Buddy as a symbolic figure to show how even the clean men of that time were only out for one thing. Plath also uses him to portray how marriage is like a prison in which th...