Sylvia Plath

is the actual performing of death instinct that leads to the real death. Nevertheless, aggression be able to repress with a defense mechanism that our unconsciousness builds to reduce the destructive impact toward our life. Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath are great poets which written thousands of poems. Their poems are frequently about love, times, religious, nature, death and human or society. Nonetheless, most of their poems concern on death. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, a nineteenth-century…

hospital setting as patients are neither provided medical or surgical treatment. The nurture therefore is not instilled within the regime as the prime reason for the institution is to emotionally and psychologically destruct the ‘patients’. Similarly, Sylvia Plath’s mental health condition is perceived as a form of disability as it evidently impacted her outlook on life. The clinical depression which she endured had led to her first suicide attempt and ‘regular insulin and electric shock under…

Unfortunately, Women in the 1950’s were classified as modern day slaves to men in many ways. Women were seen as homemakers, which means they took responsibility of running the household and taking care of it, this was also known as a housekeeper. Some of the tasks that gave women this title were cooking, cleaning and taking care of their children, this was just some of the handful of jobs the women had to do and this is how they earned their respectful name as inferiors to the men in this era.…

what if the narrator is not as reliable as we think? What if the narrator lies and gives us information that is not actually true? How are we supposed to know what’s going on in the story and with the characters? Authors like Charlotte Gilman, Sylvia Plath, and Edgar Allan Poe have changed the way we view the narrator in some of their pieces. Works like An Occurrence on Owl Creek Bridge, Daddy, and Yellow Wallpaper make us question if we should blindly believe every piece of information given…

money, to a machine churning out a valuable product. The mentality that the narrator possesses is made apparent when she calls herself, “a means”(line 7). This notion is revolutionary in Plath’s work as author Margaret Uroff notes in her article Sylvia Plath on Motherhood. Uroff states, “The view of the woman as a vessel through which the man provides himself with heirs is everywhere denied in the creative act”(391). The thought of a woman being anything but ecstatic about pregnancy was…

whale connects to the author’s suicidal death. Although sources do not know the cause of her loss, poems often reveal thoughts of the author on certain situations such as society’s cruelty. Sylvia Plath points out the opinionated people in the world by describing the mirror as “unmisted by love or dislike” (Plath 3). In Nineteen Eighty-Four, Winston also attempts to regain his memory about his past. This shows his detachment to Oceania’s control through his efforts to figure out what happened…

Initiation In Sylvia Plath’s short story “Initiation”, Millicent did not join the sorority which is shown through how she doesn’t want to be told what to do and her thoughts after she talked to the old man. Because of the sorority that Millicent wants to join she will not be able to do certain things such as talking to people and wearing what she wants to wear. Millicent is not allowed to do anything without asking her big sister: “You can't say anything unless your big sister asks you…

This changes the audiences’ preconception of the nature of sexual consent and the influence of it upon their own world. Sylvia Plath was a martyr of the Second Wave feminism as her writing induced this questioning of the conventional values surrounding sexual consent. The Bell Jar confronts the issue of sexual consent when Esther is sexually assaulted by a wealthy man she is…

Carol Ann Duffy’s enraged Medusa and Sylvia Plath’s abusive The Jailer involve women in damaged relationships both physically and emotionally. Duffy’s persona is an unhappy wife who is jealous of her husband’s mistress and this jealousy transforms her metaphorically and physically into the mythical creature, Medusa. This persona is used to victimise this women, Duffy uses this persona to evoke empathy for the character to show she is clearly distressed and suffering. Compared to Plath’s persona…

Application for Slavery In Sylvia Plath's poem "The Applicant", a male marriage applicant is being interviewed for his quality as a suitor and his willingness to accept the girl being offered for marriage by the narrator. While the young man is being grilled by the narrator, he does not near experience the harsh narrative treatment that the prospective bride receives, being purposefully deprived of both gendered pronouns and choice of action as part of the arrangement. Plath uses metaphor and…