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- Title
How does the use of the Holocaust as a metaphor in "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus" by Sylvia Plath compare in her development of the definition of self-identity?
- Authors
Cattel, Megan
- Abstract
An essay is presented which investigated the comparison on the use of the Holocaust as a metaphor in Sylvia Plath's two poems "Lady Lazarus" and "Daddy" on her definition of self-identity. It explores the two poems which reflects her childhood interactions with her father and the pressure of the male domination to her life. It discusses the hidden unhappiness of Plath's internal struggle of individual mentality and self-identity to public light which were uncovered in the two poems.
- Subjects
HOLOCAUST, 1939-1945, in literature; PLATH, Sylvia, 1932-1963; LADY Lazarus (Poem : Plath); DADDY (Poem : Plath); IDENTITY (Philosophical concept); MALE domination (Social structure); 21ST century (Literary period)
- Publication
Plath Profiles, 2012, Vol 5, p406
- ISSN
2155-8175
- Publication type
Essay