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Analysis of Plath's "Daddy"
Plath’s poem "Daddy" describes her feelings of oppression from her childhood and conjures the struggle many women face in a male-dominated society. The conflict of this poem is male authority versus the right of a female to control her own life and be free of male domi ....
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.... says "If I’ve killed one man, I’ve killed two–" most likely meaning that all men are the same and ridding the world of one is equivalent to ridding the world of both.
She is also killing off the mature childish ideas of her father being her husband (Electra complex), and ridding herself of those feelings. In line 72, "The vampire who said he was you / and drank my blood for a year / seven years, if you want to know" describes her husband and the ability of male power to strip a woman of her sense of self. (Plath was married to her husb ....
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