Quotes from the texts Sylvia Plath’s poems and The Taming of the Shrew
‘It can sow,it can cook,it can talk, talk, talk’. These are typical stereotypes of women in the 1960′s, considering that Sylvia Plath was a feminist she was obviously angry at these thoughts so therefore expressed her anger through her poem. (Poem Applicant)
‘At twenty I tried to die, And get back, back, back to you. I thought even the bones would do.’ This shows her deep depression and anger at her life. Also show how mentally unstable she was because on the mentally ill would try to kill them selves. (Poem Daddy)
‘I made a model of you, A man in black with a Meinkampf look’. This shows that she was trying to recreate her fathers image in someone else who resembled him. (Poem Daddy)
‘Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I’m through.’ This woman is obviously showing mixed feeling about her father because earlier on she said she was willing to die to get back to her father, and now she hates him. Or maybe she is just expressing that she has finally gotten over his tragic death. (Poem Daddy)
Hortensio ‘From such devils, good lord deliver us’. Hortensio is referring to Katherina as a devil for the way she acts is truly beastly. (Act 1 Scene 1 The Taming of the Shrew)
Petruchio ‘That hearing of her beauty and her wit, Her affability and bashful modesty, Her wondrous qualities and mild behaviour’. This is Petruchio talking about Katherina who he so loves and wishes to marry. (Act 2 Scene 1 The Taming of the Shrew)
Petruchio ‘Good morrow, Kate, for that’s your name, I hear’ Katherina ‘Well have you heard, but something hard of hearing: They call me Katherina that do talk to me’ This from the start of them meeting shows that Katherina is not quite a nice person actually I think it would be adequate to say she is being a bit of a shrew (hence the name).
Katherina ‘You have show’d a tender fatherly regard, To wish me wed to one half lunatic’. This shows Katherina’s first thoughts about Petruchio. (Act 2 Scene 1 The Taming of the Shrew)
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Women were often punished by society for standing up for themselves before the 1960’s when women’s rights were introduced into the modern society. As I have explained in my first quote from Plath’s poem Applicant, that Plath felt very strongly on the fact that women were treated like rubbish and seen as something to ‘use and abuse’. Also the way that she expresses her feelings and thoughts through repetition in her poetry e.g ‘At twenty I tried to die, And get back, back, back to you’. this shows the constant striving to get her feelings and point across, it also suggests that she is so full of emotion she cant even structure her words and sentences correctly. Also she uses comparisons, comparing her mother to the Greek mythical creature Medusa.
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