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A 3 page paper which discusses the works of Sylvia Plath. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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find her own identity amid the chaos of depression and insanity. Her poems "Daddy," Lady Lazarus," and her novel "The Bell Jar" are all illustrations of a sense of loss,
a search for identity, and often a lack of hope. The following paper examines these three works and discusses these themes, or symbolic images in the works. Sylvia Plath
Daddy: In this poem we see that the narrator is deeply missing their father, a man who was taken from the narrator when she was only ten years old. There
is a powerful sense of loss in this poem, but also a powerful sense of darkness, depression and confusion concerning the narrators identity. As one author notes, in reference to
the possibility that the poem not only discusses Plaths father but other people in her life, "The anger that permeates the poem is so intense and comprehensive that it seems
logical to suppose that all the major figures in the poets life--those who had betrayed her or failed her in some way, father, husband, and mother--should be included in it"
(Phelps). In this poem we see how the narrator wishes she could be with her father, but at the same time she describes her father as a Nazi and herself
as perhaps a Jew. This presents us with imagery, symbolic references, to the confused state of Plath in terms of her own identity. She was clearly of German and perhaps
Austrian descent, but yet there is still obviously something that disturbs her about her heritage and thus we symbolically see her trying to rid herself of this cultural heritage she
is obviously not proud of. Such lines as the following speak of this tension, this fear, this oppression with images that make one think of a concentration camp: "I never
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