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The vampire's victim
Title: The vampire's victim
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 1403 | Pages: 6.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
The vampire's victim
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 …showed first 75 words of 1403 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1403 total…she is psychically finished, depleted" (Nance 129) but completely mature.
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Plath, Sylvia. Daddy 1996. The Harbran Anthology of Literature. 3rd ed. Eds. Jon C. Statt, Raymond E. Jones, and Rich Bowers. Toronto: Nelson, 2002. 348-51.
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