Résumé:
This study aims to explore the journey of American women from madness to achieve
womanhood. The study analyzes Sylvia Plath’s novel, The Bell Jar ﴾1963﴿, which is published
under the pseudonym, Victoria Lucas. This thesis depends on two literary theories which are
feminism and psychoanalysis. It sheds light on female madness, seeing it as a cultural
construction more than as a physical malady. On the other hand, the work aims to explain the
ways women fight and manage to overcome their madness. One of these ways, the thesis
assumes, is writing which help them spread their ideas worldwide. Indeed, writing proves to
be a valuable strategy to overcome madness and to fight patriarchy. Through writing, females
succeed in fighting the rigid patriarchal structure and in changing the wrong status quo.
