![]() ![]() She likes to subvert religion and traditional ideas of good and evil by naming both God and Lucifer. She knows they want to see her suffer, so she’s offering herself up for the torment, she’s either given up or has adopted a masochistic approach. This is a holocaust reference, she’s calling her doctor her enemy because nazi doctors performed terrible experiments on jews.ĭo not think I underestimate your great concern. She speaks as if she’s the show monkey at a carnival and for those scandal craving, peanut eating people, there must be a fee, to look at her scars and hear her heartĪnd there is a charge, a very large chargeīut the fee must be really high to let them come close enough to her and talk to her or touch her or take away pieces of her for sheer amusement She’s making a deliberate mockery out of her personal drama because that’s what the world is doing to her. To the same place, the same face, the same bruteįor the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge Life doesn’t feel as real to her as death does but further on she says that it’s easy to do it and stay put, that she could die quietly, but she needs death needs to be theatrical because life isn’t. She wants to experience the reality of being dead, feel the intensity of the hellish experience of it. She closed herself tightly and escaped into the realm of the dead for so long that maggots started feeding on her flesh, but she returned, only to find they’re treating her like a prized commodity and objectifying her like common grave robbers.ĭying is another thing she was great at like all the endless things she excelled at. She says the first time she tried to kill herself, it was an accident, but the second time, she didn’t want to come back at all. ![]() All the private thoughts and dark secrets shall be scrutinized by one and all. Every speck of her will be drawn out and judged publicly. She’s addressing the crowd passive-aggressively, her flesh hasn’t grown back yet so she is still skin and ones but she says she’s the same woman who died painfully in obscurity, who’s coming to life is creating ruckus. Nevertheless, I am the same, identical woman.Īnd pick the worms off me like sticky pearls. they’re making a spectacle of her for the crowd to watch She feels worthless to a point where she believes it’s not even worth it to destroy each decade, she’s living decades of a life she’s grown to deem absolutely and completely worthless over every 10 year cycle, she accumulates all the trauma in her life and then dies, and reawakens a new woman, ready to take on the world – her anger and hatred increasing with each regeneration. Each time she wakes up, she’s a different person, or so she feels. She says that now resurrected, she’s smiling, humans live till 90 approx and she commits suicide every ten years so she compares herself to a cat with nine lives. She says that in a day, all these symptoms of death will cease to exist and she will be fully alive again like a miracle.Īnd like the cat I have nine times to die. Her flesh has been eaten at by the grave and her breath is sour ( a metaphor of the wounds she walked with). ![]() She has just come back from death and still looks a lot like it. She asks the reader if he’s scared of her when he sees her. The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth? But her skin feels like a reminder of terror. She says she’s a walking miracle like Lazarus. Plath feels like she’s living through a personal Holocaust. Nazis were said to use body parts of the dead Jews to make artifacts such as : lampshades, linens and paperweights as an ultimate act of reminder of the cruelty that was once inflicted. The Nazi torture was still fresh in mind. The horrors of the Holocaust weren’t too old when Plath was alive. An understanding and appreciation in collaboration with : Loveena Sharma ![]()
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