Ted Hughes

women to make themselves look good. Specifically, Sylvia Plath was oppressed in her literary life by Otto Plath and Ted Hughes. These two men influenced her writing in many different ways. Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy,” reflects the biographical context of how growing up with her father and her relationship with her husband affected her writings. Sylvia Plath’s father inspired her writings by their “bond” and his death. Otto is always spoken about in a negative way. In John Rietz’s article, Sylvia Plath states, “He was an auto-crat. I adored and despised him, and I probably wished he were dead. When he obliged me and died, I imagined him that I killed him”…

presentation of women is a prominent theme in both Rebecca and Birthday letters. In Rebecca the narrator is shown as chained by the gender roles of her society. Written in 1938 Daphne Du Maurier breaks the conventions of society by creating a character and a story line that was deemed socially unacceptable at the time. In contrast Birthday Letters shows the biased interpretation of Ted Hugh’s and Sylvia Plath’s relationship which led to Sylvia becoming a feminist icon for many. Both texts…

Plath, had “an authoritative attitude” towards his children. He always treated Sylvia badly until he died when she was eight years old. Growing up without a father for the rest of her life made her cringe even more. Feeling like she was her father’s accident, all she wanted was to find someone like him to make her feel better. That’s when she found her husband, Ted Hughes, at Cambridge University. Plath and Hughes married in 1956 and moved to the United States. There, they took jobs at Smith…

“The Minotaur”, metaphor is used in a variety of ways. Hughes takes a domestic incident, and transforms in into an exploration of the difficult relationship between himself and Plath, his wife. Though this exploration, Hughes uses the myth of the Minotaur as a creative starting point from which he draws his metaphors. By titling the poem “The Minotaur” Hughes draws on the historical context of the myth. This is particularly effective in assisting the poem to explore “haunting memories of his…

The poem “Tulips” was written after her stay at a mental health treatment center for a suicide attempt, which was also the basis for her only novel, “The Bell Jar.” The poem goes into more depth about how the hospital made her feel free from her life and troubles until the ‘tulips’ are made present in the story. The feeling of freedom is from the distance away from her distant and unloving husband, while the restricting feeling that comes from the tulips is from the ‘presence’ of her husband…

Daddy and Lady Lazarus are poems written in 1963, by Sylvia Plath and were shortly released after her death. Sylvia Plath is a famous American poet born in October 27, 1932. Plath was really depressed since at the age of 10 after her Father's death. She tried to commit suicide multiple times and failed.Plath's famous Poems “Daddy” and “Lady Lazarus” are mainly influenced on her depression and her complex relationship with her Dad and her husband Ted Hughes. Ted hughes leaving Plath left her…

depression in her poems was caused after her husband, the poet Ted Hughes, left her for another woman. Plath’s writing style has always been criticized for being excessively autobiographical and because of her continuous suicidal suspicion. However, Plath has never been criticized for the irony of the poem “The Applicant” compared to the rest of her poems. “The Applicant” talks about a consumer based society, condemned by Plath for objectifying women. She starts the poem directly speaking to…

Silvia Plath (1932-1963) was born in Boston. She had a complicated relationship with her father, who died from diabetes when she was 8. She later said that his death was the reason for her emotional turmoil in her adult years. Her mother was an English teacher and she encouraged Plath to write. Plath published her first piece in the newspaper around the time her father died (“Silvia Plath.” 1046-1047). She attended Smith college and her junior year she won a prize from the Mademoiselle…

Sylvia Plath established a brilliant academic record and exhibited talent both as an artist and as a writer, publishing her first short story in Seventeen magazine soon after finishing high school. Her academic and literary successes continued after her admission to Smith College in the fall of 1950. The recipient of several prestigious scholarships, she performed impressively in her college courses and published her works in several national magazines, earning, among other accolades, a summer…

disturbing and painful images that will captivate ones imagination. I believe most of the pain and resentment in Sylvia Plath’s work came from her depressed life plus her failed marriage. Plath was a great poet born 27 October 1932, in the popular city of Boston, Massachusetts. Her depression started at a young age, which she expressed in her diary. At age 21 was her first attempt at suicide by overdosing on a sleeping medication. After recovering while still at a young age of 24, Plath would…