"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.... I have longer to please the dead than to please the living here" (Antigone, 85-89). ... Even while walking down to the road, under guard, to her tomb where she would be imprisoned, she openly proclaims, "O tomb, my bridal-bed-my house, my prison cut in the hollow rock, my everlasting watch! I'll soon be there, soon embrace my own, the great growing family of our dead my arrival may be dear to father, dear to you, my mother, dear to you, my loving brother, Eteocles" (Antigone, 978-988) Under the worst circumsta...

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Any woman noticed pushing the domestic convention of the period was harshly ridiculed and always reminded of her inferiority within the "man's world". ... A sort of walking miracle, my skin Bright as a Nazi Lampshade, My right foot A paperweight, My face is a featureless, fine Jew linen ("Lady Lazarus" 4-9) She makes use of Nazi imagery when she explains her suicide attempts and subtly names her doctor as a Nazi. ... By writing this poem, Plath points out how her entire existence is controlled by a man. ... Each character within this story displays a varying amount ...

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