• G. Sherwin

This paper explores Sylvia Plath’s poems. Sylvia Plath belongs to a period where women were dominated by men. It was a patriarchal society where women were not given permission not even to share their opinion. Sylvia thought of how women are under the power of men and feel suffocated and wanted to come out of men’s control. Most of Sylvia’s poems contain aggression in a male dominated society. She wanted women to be in progressevie the society. Sylvia Plath was considered to be the most powerful confessional poet. Most of the poems of Sylvia Plath portray gender roles. The reason behind her writings about gender roles was because of her father’s death and her divorce from her husband. Bawer said that “Plath was the mouthpiece of a movement embodying an independent woman oppressed by man in her whole life”. Her writings do not talk about her position as a single mother rather talk for all the women who are forced into a domestic setting. Her writings depict the mindset of the society during that time.

Gender roles, suicide, negativity, male - female relationship, perspectives

"Gender inequality in Sylvia Plath’s poems", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.705-710, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAG06150.pdf

"Gender inequality in Sylvia Plath’s poems", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp705-710, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAG06150.pdf