The birth of a child may be one of the most astonishing experiences in a women's life. For many, it changes their lives in many ways based on their experience throughout the whole process. There are many ways to conceive a child, however in Sylvia Plath's "Three Women", the three most common scenarios are portrayed along with their experiences. It's important that we appreciate the struggles that women go through, as not all of us have to endure it. Giving birth can be a blessing and a curse for many women at different stages of their life but for many of us it's always seen as a great milestone.
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The first voice gives the perspective of what it is like for most women as they give birth. Like most women, she awaits her child and believes it is the best thing that could have happened to her. As the typical woman she portrays what most women would imagine their pregnancy turning out. Furthermore she describes the pains she has to go through during the time she is giving labor but nevertheless it is all worth it at the end. It seems to be her first child, as like the typical mother, she becomes overprotective and wants the best for her beloved child. It is a great portrayal of what a typical childbirth is for many women all around the world.
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In contrast the second voice portrays what it is like to give birth in a very stressful environment and the challenges women face with miscarriages. As a stressed out office worker the second voice goes through many miscarriages and comes to the conclusion that men are the reason of her misfortune. She eventually grows sick just about everything that men do and do not do, such as giving birth to children. Furthermore it is devastating when women are unable to give birth to a child, making them feel useless and lifeless eventually leading them into deep depressions. .
She soon begins to accept the fact that her inability to produce life is overshadowed by her ability to bring death to the world.
Sylvia Plath What was it that drove Sylvia Plath to suicide? What encourages a poet such as Sylvia Plath to produce such intense pieces of writing? ... Sylvia Plath had it all. ... During her adult life, Sylvia attempted suicide three times. ... Before her death, Sylvia was seen as a martyr to women. ...
Sylvia Plath is a writer with a life that generated a lot of interest. ... Sylvia Plath became a sort of a martyr for women's rights. ... They fell in love and married and on October 27, 1932 Sylvia Plath was born. ... During the final three years of her life, Plath abandoned the restraints and conventions that stifled much of her earlier work as she wrote with great speed. ... Sylvia Plath uses these images, of a woman as a scientific object, to show the dehumanizing position of the observation and confinement women endure. ...
"Mirror" by Sylvia Plath shows the shallowness and superficial concerns of women through the personification and the description of a mirror reflecting a woman's life and her character. ... A lake has more depth than a mirror because it's a three-dimensional object but when it comes to reflecting whatever they see they"ll both reflect just a physical appearance. ...
This report will show how three pieces of literature disagrees or agrees with the quote. In the poem, "Daddy", Sylvia Plath says that there are women who find themselves without the equipment to deal with oppressive and controlling men. ... Jut like how Plath used Nazi Germany to her father. ... The poem shows just how women are going to try to change he world. Women look at this poem for help. ...
Sylvia Plath's poem "Metaphors" consists entirely of what its title suggests: metaphors. ... She proceeds exclaim what these three things are valued for: "O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers!" These are at the core, are representative of their strength, or are the framework for the objects in line two and three. ... This also supports that she feels she is performing no more than a chore expected of women, like that of making bread. ... My guess would be that most pregnant women can relate to line seven. ...
She is sent to McLean Hospital (renowned for its famous patients including Sylvia Plath, James Taylor and Ray Charles) where she voluntarily admits herself - little knowing she shall spend the next 18 months there. ... These unusual young women, among a few others, not only become her closest friends, but eventually direct Susanna back to someone she has lost - herself. ... She's still thin and yellow but now she has a three year old son and is working and going to temple. ...
The disorder (a.k.a Manic-Depression) effects an estimated three million (or 1%) of people in the United States with severe manic-depression and 5-6 million with milder forms of the disorder. ... Women are twice as likely as a man to experience major depression, but men and women are equally likely to be affected by this illness. The onset of this disorder usually occurs between twenty and thirty years of age, with a second peak in the mid-forty's for women. ...
There is No "Love Train", "Love Town", or "Love Shack", and As I"m certain Many Women can assure you, Love Never "Grows where Rosemary Goes". ... I will Also Point out That This madness has some function - That is leavens the scale, And removes the rift Between men and Women, when it come to Love. Madness is blind - it effects Men and women in the same way, Causing both to be poetic and hyper-sensitive. ... Today, I Plan To Examine three poems from three different eras, In Hopes of Both Proving That Love will drive One Mad, And also, to discern the types of Madness that can be derived from L...
