Freedom and responsibility : motherhood, community and madness in Morrison and Plath.

• Main Author: Pang, Yu Ming.
• Other Authors: Andrew Corey Yerkes
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::American
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/42527
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In Toni Morrison’s Beloved, the idea of freedom is rooted in the privilege of gaining responsibility, while freedom in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar equates to the shrinking of responsibility. Yet the contrasting ideas of freedom in both novels cause the characters to become mentally unstable and ostr...