ENGL 3550 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Erectile Dysfunction, Electrotherapy, Zeugma And Syllepsis
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Engl3550 lecture 15: sylvia plath, lady lazarus and the bell. More commonly, plath"s work is read for gender: what personal traumas, social conditions, and double standards women face and how they overcome them (or do not) Jewish references: reaches for jewish culture, beliefs, history to create her first person voices. In lady lazarus, the speaker accumulates personae, but her main persona is jewish. Details of images drawn from the historical workings of the holocaust - attach the speaker to concentration camps. I may be japanese : in relation to victimhood, reference would have brought about the image of the bombing of. Hiroshima and nagasaki - this was taken out in the final published version, but is a good example of how she fuses personal and cultural experiences of trauma. Some experience is drawn from her own life, some come from outside experiences. Emphasis on jewishness in the bell jar is briefer, but implanted and runs through the novel.