http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/the-bell-jar Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:55:13 -0400 Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:55:13 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/111/examining-oppression-through-the-lives-and-stories-of-sylvia-plath-and-charlotte-perkins-gilman By Sandra L. Meyer - Sylvia Plath‘s The Bell Jar is about a young woman named Esther Greenwood entering college in the early 1950’s, a time before the second wave of the women’s movement had been implemented. Esther has dreams of becoming a famous writer while most of the women around her dream of finding a husband. Esther does not fit in with these women - no matter how hard she tries she knows she is meant for something more than domestic life. Her struggles between the world she knows and the world she wants create an inner turmoil that eventually sends her to an institution where she receives... Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:45 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/111/examining-oppression-through-the-lives-and-stories-of-sylvia-plath-and-charlotte-perkins-gilman