Plath’s Daddy - Plath as a Weak Feminist :: Feminism Feminist Women Criticism

Plath as a Weak Feminist in pappa   Plaths innate emptiness and emotional constraint comes , I believe, from her drop of male encouragement and her according need for domination. This streams from the untimely death of her spawn at 9. In this poesy Plath alludes to her relationship to her contract with an emphasis on his German background and identity. In this way she tittle-tattles on him in contradicting terms, firstly, as a divine figure ..A bag full of God, exalted over her in a seemingly totalitarian way. She then transforms her significance with No God, but a swatztika a completely ironic comment in comparison to the first as Nazism is essentially gentile in its nature. The extended reference to the astonishment of her father as Hitler is shown by dint of indications of his Mein Kampf look and neat moustache. Similarly, Plath confuses herself with the role of a Jew, symbolising the insecurity which lies at heart her subconsciousness, and the recognition which she has of her victimisation from men.This victimisation follows on with allusions to her marriage with Hughes, and the similarities Plath associated between her father and husbandIf Ive killed one man, Ive killed two---The vampire who said he was youHughes himself acknowledged this confusion in his poem THE SHOTYour real target stood behind meYour DaddyThe man with the smoking gunThis quote reinforces her fathers role in Plaths ultimate demise as it implies that the smoking gun once shot Plaths bullet of fatality. Essentially this poem signifies Plaths weakness, and threatens her iconic stature as a feminist . Reacting against this common assort with which she is named, her poetry indicates a lack of stability and inner faith, excluding those who are virulent and entirely negative.