The vampire's victim
Date Submitted: 12/18/2001 21:49:21
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 5 pages (1347 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 5 pages (1347 words)
The poem "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath is a dramatic and allegoric scene of suffering and turmoil endured by Plath's character while fighting against the destructive forces embodied in her vampire-father and vampire-husband. Axel catalogues the character as the replica of a person who suffered the Elektra complex: "Here is a poem spoken by a girl with an Elektra complex" (51). As the readers gradually move through the poetry, we feel the heroine intense, spiritual living. Also …
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…is psychically finished, depleted" (Nance 129) but completely mature.
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