Duality Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath’s and Adrienne Rich’s are similar in the characters’ sufferings and fragmented duality or "divided self". Plath’s poem portrays the oppression women had to suffer in a society dominated. Throughout the poem we see the double vision in the narrator’s search for his identity. Rich’s poem shows the reader the prejudice she had to face in a non-Jewish society through her refusal to accept her Jewish heritage. She is afraid to participate and interact with other ethnic groups. They are dealt with their society's ignorance. Their characters were met with hostility. So, they tried to hide their feelings from the outside world and live in accordance with the society's guideline. This division of their persona is not only caused by the persecution and prejudice the characters face from the ignorant and racist people around them, but is also caused by the way their own people portray themselves. The inner struggle within themselves creates a daily issue in …show more content…
Therefore Aunt’s fingers “flutter’ when she stitches. She feels uneasy with the . As Uncle, the ‘massive weight’ of ring repressing her life. The ring presses her finger, and she cannot stitch freely, as she lives her husband’s life, she has uneasy feeling. Like Plath who is disturbed by her father, Aunt Jennifer’s husband’s systems and rules locked her in prison her. Eleanor says, From that cage she tries to escape herself from reality and stitching tigers. She wants to get out of her society’s norms and wants to live freely as tigers, because nothing can take freedom from them.
At the end of the poem Rich informs, Aunt Jennifer is saying after her death, the wound of her hand will show her excessive hard work to make her husband happy. As a wild animal, her life stuck in a marriage like, and her husband locked her. After her death, her needlework will exist on earth. Her stitching is a symbol of her sensation, her desire for freedom and also it’s a sign of her broken dreams.

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