The Impact of Virginia Woolf’s Feminism on Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, with special Reference to To The Lighthouse

The present study falls into three chapters, an introduction, and a conclusion. The first chapter,” Two worlds and teo stges of feminism” describes that underlying cultural and social conditions that constituted the backgrounds of the fictional worlds of virginia woolf and sylvia plath. Understanding those elements that contributed to the shaping of the minds and sensbilities of the two writers, formed their reactions, and informed their artistic outputs, is necessary for a deeper reading and appreciation of their works.The second chapter, ” Mothers and Dughters,” deals with the influence of the writers’mothers. Both To the Lighthouse and the Bell Jar are mother texts, in which the two writers treat their obsessed relationships and their ambivalent feelings towards their mothers. She continued to hear her mother’s voice almost daily, She says; but after finishing To The Lighthouse. she writes, ”I ceased to be obsessed by my mother.The third chapter discusses issues related to ” Female creativity”. Discussions of Woolf’s ideas of the female literary tradition, women’s internalization of patriarchal stereotypes of themselves, the psychological effect of negative masuline critical reception of women’s writings, the use of anger in women’s writings, and woolf’s introduction of the female sentence are folloewed by close reading of the two novels.