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Title: The Bell Jar Lecture Notes
Description: Degree level lecture notes from a Durham University lecture on the Bell Jar and its Cold War context.
Description: Degree level lecture notes from a Durham University lecture on the Bell Jar and its Cold War context.
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The Cold War and ‘The Bell Jar’- Sylvia Plath
Interested in ‘The Bell Jar’ not due to its broad political relations but its autobiographical elements
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Decision for career meant no possibility for family, and vice versa- one or the other, limited choices
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Led to second
wave feminism of 60s and 70s
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Mrs Willard makes mats and rugs
out of worn out suits, doormat is immediately made filthy after being crafted
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Plath’s work intermeshes with global, political and literary history
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‘I never feel so much myself as when I’m in a hot
bath’
On her back, naked and half under water- classic set up for a horror film
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Interesting she should feel most herself when everyone else is dissolved rather than having someone else
there to recognise you
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Most private experiences of adulthood- sex and childbirth- are subject to public observation and voyeurism
in the novel
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, a weird inversion, being thrust down her throat
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‘Martian honeycomb’- how would one possibly know what that looks like? Not only is it a Martian
honeycomb, it’s a ‘weird green Martian honeycomb’- what would a normal one look like?
UN we all come together like worker bees for the common good, yet it is just a product of the imaginationmartian- suggests a problem which runs through the novel, how the national and international are supposed
to relate
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She doesn’t recognise herself- ‘I looked yellow as a chinaman’, ‘I noticed a big, smudgy-eyed Chinese
woman staring idiotically into my face
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Self failing to recognise itself
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It was assumed West would immediately win the Cold War- the arms race was on
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Public nervousness about a woman and mother- there were two children left behind
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Esther character who seems to have a double identity- American woman and foreign other
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Esther Ethel Greenglass Rosenburg- Ester Greenwood seems to reference Ethel Rosenburg’s full nameEsther inability to read herself might be due to this troubling fact
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McCarthyism etcshe’s living in a time of deep concern of secret agents, spies around the corner, conspiracy and people
planning sedition from within
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Adlai Stevenson who talks about how motherhood and marriage brings you back to the ‘great issues of our
day’ and places ‘upon you an infinitely deeper and more intimate responsibly than that born by the majority
of those who hit the headline sand make the news’- Adlai Stevenson imagines the domestic as a front line in
the cold war rather than removed from it
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The paradox of privacy is that it is both an absolute value in the US, but an absolute value you must be
willing to give up at any time- ‘nothing to hide, nothing to fear’ type thing
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Naming names, right to privacy, invocation of the right to privacy could make you look very guilty
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Google ‘The Kitchen Debate’
The reward for being a woman who can suffer is maybe a man will light a cigarette for you
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James Joyce Finnigan’s Wake- notoriously difficult book to read, to the text that weekly reading groups often
discuss it a page a week- the book Esther has been assigned, has tried to read and panics, can no longer read
anymore
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Title: The Bell Jar Lecture Notes
Description: Degree level lecture notes from a Durham University lecture on the Bell Jar and its Cold War context.
Description: Degree level lecture notes from a Durham University lecture on the Bell Jar and its Cold War context.