Congratulations, you have been accepted into the final round of Auditions for the part of Sylvia Plath. For this audition you are required to act out the following scene, from the script attached.
The part of Plath will not be an easy role, so I have some suggestions on how you should play this role. I also recommend that you read some of Plath's and Hughes' poetry to get some ideas as to their opinions of each other.
Plath was a very complicated person. She started out with a rough childhood, stemmed mainly from conflict with her father. He was badly wounded by the war, not necessarily physically, but emotionally, he talked almost incessantly about the war, specifically the conflict between Germany and Poland. The effects of the war, and her father, can be seen strongly in Plath's poem - Daddy where she explains her feelings toward him. She saw him as a Hitler like German extremist, and demonstrates a fear and hatred towards him, she tells us that even after her father's death, when she was ten. In spite of her fear and hatred, she was unable shed any memories of him, and this drove her into depression; she was still under her fathers control from beyond the grave. .
Hughes' The Minatoar compares her father, and his influence over her, with the ancient beast, the Minatoar, through the use of a metaphor. He believes that it is her father who has ruined her, their marriage, and their children. In this poem he also portrays her as a highly volatile, unstable and short tempered person, she destroyed a sentimental piece of furniture, because he was twenty minutes late to look after their children.
In another of Hughes' poems, My Paris, he discusses his experiences and point of views from their honeymoon. In this poem he is highly critical of her, complaining of her apparent inability to find the deeper meaning of various things. He saw Paris as a war broken place, and was solemn and mindful in his comments on the surroundings.
Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts. ... Sylvia attended Smith College. ... When she got out, she went to England to study at Cambridge and met her husband Ted Hughes who was also a poet in 1956. ... Sylvia had found out Ted was having an affair with another lady, and later that year she separated from Ted and moved to London. ... Plath, or if she passed away. ...
Ted Hughes Biography Ted Hughes was born on the 17th of august 1930 in Mytholmroyd in west Yorkshire. As a child Hughes spent a lot of time with his brother on the moors shooting birds. ... At the age of seven, Ted's family moved to Mexborough which was a coal mining town in South Yorkshire. ... In 1954 Hughes married Sylvia Plath. ... This book won the New York Poetry Centre's First Publication Award, while his next book, Lupercal, was released in 1960. 1962 brought about the separation of Ted and Sylvia which culminated in Sylvia's suicide in 1963. ...
A Haunting Plath American poets are "dime a dozen", but one such as Sylvia Plath are hard to come by. ... Sylvia Plath led and interesting childhood and teenage years, and put an abrupt end to her live in 1963. Sylvia Plath led an interesting life; especially during her years as a child and a teenager. ... When she was released she went to England on a scholarship; while she was there she met Ted Hughes, an English poet, and they were married almost instantly (Kehoe 90). Due to Sylvia and Ted's marital tribulations, she committed suicide at an early age. ...
Sylvia Plath What was it that drove Sylvia Plath to suicide? ... Sylvia Plath had it all. ... Garrett-3 One thing that definitely influenced Plath was her husband, Ted Hughes. ... Not long before her death, Ted Hughes began having an affair. ... Many believed that Sylvia's husband, Ted Hughes, was the cause for Sylvia's suicide. ...
Sylvia Plath was a great American poet gaining her fame and recognition in the twentieth century, after her death. ... She uses a lot of violent and harsh imagery in her poems, metaphors and descriptions on how she struggles to escape oppressive male figures in her life, like her father Otto and husband Ted Hughes. ... As she grows older, Sylvia tries to fill the hole her father left by searching for an authoritative and powerful male figure, like Ted Hughes. That's why in the movie "Sylvia", Plath's mother tells Ted that Sylvia loves him because she fears him, "I think you've f...
In this case, Nazi imagery is used to conflate the father image of 'Daddy' explored in the poem's opening with her husband Ted Hughes. ... In this way, Hughes makes use of the familiar image of a worshipper in both poems to explore his guilt in the demise of Sylvia Plath. ... Uniquely, the poem is one of the few in Hughes work which does not make use of Sylvia Plath as a muse, instead adopting the second person pronoun 'you' to directly address Otto Plath. The poem describes the entangled images of Plath and Hughes created in Sylvia Plath's poetry. ... Hughes us...
Sylvia Plath, a complex poet, a complex mind. The life of Sylvia Plath began on October 27, 1932 and was abruptly ended on February 11, 1963. ... The work that Plath produced just before her death was published many years later by her husband, Ted Hughes. ... Sylvia Plath is most definitely not exempt from this stereotype. ... "Flute Notes" and "The Stones" are two poems that Ted Hughes said spoke with her true voice. ...
She met Ted Hughes, a British poet, there and they married on June 16, 1956. ... In July she found out of Ted's affair with Assia Wevill, and in September Ted and Sylvia separated. ... Hughes lover Assia Wevill, mimicked Plath's suicide in 1969, by gassing herself as well as the young daughter, Shura, she shared with Hughes. ... The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath was published just a few years ago. This included exact transcripts of Plath's journals stretching from 1950(six years before she met Hughes) to 1960. ...
Sylvia then moved to England to study at Cambridge, where she met the poet Ted Hughes. They got married in 1956 and had a turbulent relationship ("Sylvia Plath"). ... As stated above, the life of Sylvia Plath definitely affected her writing and the way she wrote poetry. ... " This work refers to her father's death and may also have linked to her estranged husband, Ted Hughes. ... In conclusion, many of Sylvia Plath's poems have been affected by her past and what she has been through. ...
Sylvia Plath's poetry is well known for its deeply personal and emotional subject matter. ... (Perkins, 591) Sylvia's father, Otto Plath, was a German immigrant and an entomologist who specialized in bumblebees. ... Plath's relationship with her husband, poet Ted Hughes, was not much healthier. ... Plath had been subservient and coy towards Hughes, deeply loving and admiring him. Hughes took Plath for granted and left her when he was no longer interested. ...
