Individual Mobility and the Sense of “Deadlock”

Individual mobility is an outcome of the rapid changes in life; itis revealed in particular literary works within the end of the 19th century. Mobility isclearer in modern time as the individual has become physically freer in his movement.But the individual’s freedom is often conditioned by restrictions. Usually, changestimulates individuals to obtain new structure of feeling; the individual mocks or ragesagainst institutions, or he would comply, suffering rapid personal deterioration as hefaces effective stability or institutions. There is a continuous sense of “deadlock.”Sylvia Plath’s novel reflects the depression of an intellectual young woman who fails tofind her right path muddled by an inconsistent, confusing world around. The opposingideas and standards imposed on women depress and alienate the protagonist from the worldleading her to an eventual attempt at suicide. The variable values the character has toadjust, the protagonist’s reaction toward these values, and her sense of “dead lock” arethe subject of the present article