revised plath paragraph

In the poem “Daddy” Silvia Plath uses Holocaust imagery to show 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. Plath compares herself to Jews from the holocaust and you can see that in the quote, “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.” This quote reveals the kind of mistreatment Plath feels she has received from men because Plath illustrates her being the victim as Jews shown when she says “ Chuffing me off like a Jew…..” and her father being the mistreating German Nazis. Also the quotes “I thought every German was you” represents the kind of fear she had from these she men she compared to as German Nazis. Jews were afraid of Nazis because of the horrible treatment they put on them and when she says this line it compares the same fear men have made her feel. It also says “A Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz…” Here 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.


How I revised this paragraph was first I checked the grammar and spelling and changed any mistakes. Then what I did to improve the content was I explained the quote I used in more depth and I introduced the quote since in class it was said to not just “drop quotes” which is what I did in the first paragraph. These are really the only changes I made to improve my paragraph.