a contemporary perspective. They will evaluate the history in accordance with the needs and style of contemporary literary movement. 1989:43.
2.2 Dynamic Structuralism
The first steps in carrying out a literary analysis is to identify the elements that are in the literary works. These are important because they are the raw data that are
going to interpreted in the study. These elements consist of character, plot, setting, theme, background and so on. The theories that are going to be used to analyze this
literary work will help peel as much detail as possible in order to gain new meaning and conclusions.
Etymologically speaking, structure came from word, structura Latin, means form or building. Structuralism is an understanding of elements of the structure itself.
Definitively, structuralism gives attention to the analysis of elements in literary works. The elements of prose are theme, conflict, setting, characters, plot, point of
view, and style of language. According to Mukarovsky and Felik Vodicka, literary works are the process of communication, fact of semiotic, consists of sign, structure,
and values. The analysis of literary works should focus on the work itself without attention to things outside of work called extrinsic. This can be done by way of close
reading, which is reading in detail. Structural Analysis aims to unpack and explain as carefully, as
precisely, as much detail, and in-depth and entanglement all elements and aspects of literature that together produce a
comprehensive meaning. Teeuw 1984:135
In dynamic structuralism, according Mukarovsky, the chain of relationship is between four factors: the creator, literature, readers, and reality. Manifested as a sign
of literary works in its intrinsic structure, in conjunction with the reality, society,
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creators, and readers Teeuw, 1984:190. From the description above, before applying dynamic structuralism in studying
The Bell Jar, the researcher has to look at structural aspects that consist of plot, character, setting, theme, style, and point of view. From these aspects, the researcher
will discuss about the phenomenon of female social construction and the main character’s struggles of social oppression in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar.
2.3 Feminism
