paragraph on Plath- original

In the poem “Daddy” Silvia Plath uses Holocaust imagery to her relationship with men in her life. Her comparisons of the holocaust and her past male relationships, mostly pertaining to her father and husband, articulates the cycle of abuse she has experienced with the male figures in her life. “I thought every German was you. /And the language obscene/ an engine, and engine/ Chuffing me off like a Jew. A Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz, Belsen. /I began to talk like a Jew/ I think I may well be a Jew.” Here Plath shows her comparison of her being the victim as Jews were and her father being the mistreating German Nazis. She is comparing the trauma of oppression these men in her life have made her experience and relating it to the trauma of the genocide of the Jews. But it is more a relation to the felling rather than the actual physical treatment Jews had. Through Plath’s imagery she is trying to get sympathy from her readers about her situation and in the Holocaust Jews were sympathized with because of there horrible treatment form the Nazis. The imagery portrays her feelings of abuse she has felt through the years of her life from the men she was supposed to have trust the most.