Essays on Plath

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After conducting analysis of the literature, it is possible to provide the following classification of the managerial and medical approaches towards the drug and alcohol treatment of aboriginal women: drug treatment, development of the personal skills among the target population as well as practical implementation of the therapeutic strategies, which are mainly based on the cultural and social contexts of such women. There is a considerable difference in terms of availability of such services for the Aboriginal populations and non-Aboriginal populations. For instance, those women, who are not referred as representatives of indigenous population, have an access to the ...

"Lady Lazarus," a poem written in tercets, seems to face two realities: her own, and her perceived connection to the the Jews who had to face the worst types of torments imaginable. We may never know the full extent of what Jews and other minorities had to face during this time, but this dimly toned poem certainly tries to show an almost telepathic glimpse into their pain. The first tercet looks to be based on autobiographical fact. "I have done it again./

One year in every ten/I manage it--" (all quotes are directly from Lady Lazarus, Plath).

Here, the tone is immediately ominous. The poet has done something. This is rarely a good thing. ...

Literature is the reflection of the contemporary society. Early 20th century was generally known as the modernist era in art and literature. The contemporary society was majorly affected by the fatality of World War I and World War II. During the period, the whole generation had become very pessimistic about everything. They were trying to find the meaning of life and their existence due to the political situations and horrified incidents such as holocaust, concentration camps, and the drop of nuclear bombs on Japan. The feeling of nothingness, futility is very strong in contemporary English literature. The literature of ...

Almost sixty years have passed since this great woman, Sylvia Plath passed away, but she stays in our hearts and her poetry inspires us daily. The poetess formed her unique literary image, her confessional poetry and conceptual metaphorical structures in her works are still considered to be great due to the complexity and emotional degree of saturation. If she knew that she would be among the greatest poets of the United States she probably would not lead such depressing way of life and eventually would not end up her life by killing herself. She would write more stories and ...

Most of Sylvia Plath’s works are propelled by “inexorable and often terrible forces driving through her mind and bodyThe forces are fears, or nightmarish impulses towards brutality or suicide” (Knickerbocker 346). These dark emotions are present and felt in her works, alluding to the kind of life she lived before her suicide when she was just 30. There was nothing much that can be learned about her personal life which exposed her in the kind of sufferings that her works have alluded to, but her poem “Daddy” talked about a German father who was a Fascist and died ...

John Steinbeck’s seminal short story, The Chrysanthemums, leaves a lasting mark in the core of the minds of the avid readers with its intricacies of expression and quintessence of literary technique. It needs to be noted that the very title of this story works as a symbol of the journey of life of the female protagonist of this story. A close scrutiny of the narrative would enable one to have a better idea of how the flower represents the emotions, nature and life of Elisa. Through the symbolic representation and association of the chrysanthemums with Elisa, the author ...

In the Victorian period The Woman Question was a widely discussed topic, and engaged many Victorians, both male and female. The ideal woman of that age was associated with tenderness, understanding, innocence, domestic affection and submissiveness. The woman had to maintain the status and integrity of her husband, being always the devoted and pleasing angel in the house. Coventry Patmore supported the idea that women should be extremely pure and selfless in his popular, best-selling long poem “The Angel in the House” (1854). A woman that failed at such responsibilities was labelled either mad or hysterical. During the Victorian ...

What makes this poem so striking for the reader is the theatening imagery and the tone of anger and hatred that Plath expresses. Despite the title and despite references to factual details abut her father’s life, I thnk this poem gains its power from its almost paranoid feeling s of hatred and anxiety felt by all women towards men in positions of authority – fathers, husbands, rulers – men with power. As such, it make astonsihing leaps of imagery, some of which are genuinely shocking and disturbing, and which mean that the poem can be read as a lamnet for the ...