He talks about how she was killed, which was by drowning. He says, ‘I can see her drowned body in the bog, the weighing stone, the floating rods and boughs’. He sees, in his mind, the girl being drowned, how she was held under the water by a heavy stone. The ‘rods and boughs’ would have been used for flogging the girl, and this is a disturbing thought for the reader. Heaney says, ‘she was a barked sapling that is dug up’, using this natural image to contrast the previous sinister images he had created.
Her use of words in ‘Elm’ is also interesting. “Faults” could be emotional and/or physical and this shows the psychological states explored throughout Sylvia Plath’s work. “Malignity” symbolises evil and the intensity of how disturbed her life was.Another poem by Plath that I found to be personal on an intense and disturbing way was ‘Mirror’. It is clear as Plath looks into the mirror that she is unhappy, watching her age. A mirror never lies, but Plath cannot find solace in what she sees.
Its just I cant help thinking about this girl-destroying her life so horribly.’ This shows Sheila feels commiseration and sensitivity towards Eva and her death which comes across as genuine regret when she realises she could be linked to her suicide. Mr Birling interrupts her questioning by becoming even more aggressive when trying to defend her daughter. The phrase ‘why the devil do you want to go upsetting a child like that’ that he uses shows he is more concerned that his daughter has been affected by feelings of guilt and shame for what they might have done to Eva Smith. He doesn’t realise the depth of the familys involvement and still feels able to be bitter and outspoken towards the inspector. However, this does impact the inspector at all because he continues his questioning with Sheila further.
Naguib Mahfouz made the reader understand the suffering of the women in our society. He tried to show us the tragic position that the young girl had in the short story "The Answer Is No". Also he succeeded in analyzing the psychology of the young girl, and how she could overcome the trap that the man put her in. The short story is entitled "The Answer Is No" because the young girl revolted against the male-dominated society, her weakness, and also to the future love and the past that she had by saying "NO". When she was raped, she didn't understand what had happened to her, and she was shocked and every inch of her body was trembling.
One of the reasons for this critical designation as a poet of failed relationships is poems about failed relationships, like "Daddy." This symbolic poem epitomizes the failed relationships in Plath's life and certainly contributes to her representation as a poet of failed relationships. This is perhaps the most honest reason why she is considered a poet of failed relationships, it happens to be the truth. However, people would not have been so aware of her relationships had they not known about her suicide, and then further prodded into her life. Here are a couple other reasons to consider.
During her trail scene, she is accused of being a whore and it is at this point in the play that she gains a voice. In this scene Vittoria exploits the constraints held over women by men. She refused to listen those talking in Latin, “I will not have any accusations clouded/ in a strange tongue” and begins to personate masculine virtue. As Vittoria speaks she is damned because she breaks her silence, her bad reputation is her ‘public fault’. A women who publicly speaks ultimately becomes a public women and is guilty of public sexuality: she is publicly accused of being a whore in this scene.
The One Who Suffered the Worst In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s book The Scarlet Letter, Hester’s character suffers far worst than the other two major characters because her sin became part of who she was and how everyone saw her as. Though I believe that Hester suffered the most, other people believe that Hester didn’t suffer as much because of the way she handles her problems; such as, keeping both Dimmesdale and Chillingworth’s secrets , refusing to let them take Pearl from her, and not hiding from the public after her sin is revealed and she is punished. Nonetheless, while Hester does tolerance her suffering better than the other characters, this also shows that she suffered the worst too. In fact, Hawthorne gives frequently evidence of this throughout The Scarlet Letter. Some of the evidence he gives is the constant reminders that she will live with her sin the rest of her life, her relationships with Chillingworth and Dimmesdale, and how she deals with her sin and the result of it.
By Curley’s wife talking to a mentally unstable person Lennie she seemed to take advantage of him by flirting a little bit with him. Lennie seems a little questionable by all that she was doing but he was going along with it until she says, “ I get lonely, you can talk to people but I can’t talk to nobody but curly” (Steinbeck, 87). This quote shows loneliness because even Lennie is having a hard time to communicate with Curley’s wife because she doesn’t seem confortable with him. As they keep talking Curley’s wife lets out all that she had hurting her inside to Lennie, she tells him everything because her husband never wanted to listen to her which made her loos her companionship. As Lennie keeps talking to her in his mind he feels that she is very confused into her self by this entire happening she gets herself into trouble.
She can only understand Tommy's note in terms of her experience, which has been very traumatic; so, she reacts with as much revulsion to the note as she does to her unpleasant memories. She can only think of male-female relationships in terms of
‘Creative metaphor are those which a writer/speaker constructs to express a particular idea or feeling in a particular context’ Examine how Plath uses metaphor in Lady Lazarus. Plath uses metaphor in her ‘confessional’ poem Lady Lazarus in order to convey her emotional, physical and psychological struggle with depression. The poem could be interpreted as her attempt to understand or give voice to her suicide attempts. ‘Metaphor is important because of its functions- explaining, clarifying, describing, expressing…’ Plath uses metaphors not only to express her mental struggle, but also the reactions of others to it. She highlights through imagery the lack of willingness and understanding people show and their ignorance when it comes to mental health issues.