| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第4-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-11页 |
| CHAPTER ONE Introduction | 第11-21页 |
| 1.1 Sylvia Plath and The Bell Jar | 第11-12页 |
| 1.2 Literature Review | 第12-16页 |
| 1.2.1 The Bell Jar as an Autobiographic Novel | 第12-13页 |
| 1.2.2 The Bell Jar as a Feminist Manifesto | 第13-14页 |
| 1.2.3 The Bell Jar: from the Perspective of Psychoanalysis | 第14-16页 |
| 1.3 Introduction to the Present Thesis | 第16-21页 |
| 1.3.1 Theories on Discipline and Punishment | 第16-19页 |
| 1.3.2 Significance of the Research | 第19-20页 |
| 1.3.3 Structure of the Thesis | 第20-21页 |
| CHAPTER TWO Discipline toward Esther | 第21-39页 |
| 2.1 Confinement---the Panopticon | 第21-30页 |
| 2.1.1 Victorian Society in the Cold War Era as a Panopticon | 第22-24页 |
| 2.1.2 Home as a Panopticon | 第24-27页 |
| 2.1.3 Asylum as a Panopticon | 第27-30页 |
| 2.2 Surveillance-the Form of Omnipresent Power | 第30-35页 |
| 2.3 Punishment | 第35-39页 |
| CHAPTER THREE Esther’s Subjectivity under Power | 第39-53页 |
| 3.1 Docile Bodies: Docility of Esther and Other Female Characters | 第39-43页 |
| 3.2 Loss of Subjectivity in the Form of Alienation | 第43-48页 |
| 3.3 Esther’s Resistance to Reconstruct Subjectivity | 第48-53页 |
| 3.3.1 Retaining of Subjectivity | 第48-51页 |
| 3.3.2 Reconstruction of Subjectivity through Rebirth | 第51-53页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR Conclusion | 第53-56页 |
| WORKS CITED | 第56-59页 |
