... is discussed in Al Strangeways essay "The Boot in the Face: The Problem of the Holocaust in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath."" The escape to freedom is one of the themes in the poem "the female figure's adoration of the Fascist is an extreme result of a stereotypically feminine escape from the feelings of aloneness associated with freedom, through masochistic strivings- (Strangeways ... God, and in so doing became Satan, as a man with a will to power who drank blood, as a man who loved purity and order more than humanity, as a remote man of science who, like Lucifer, thought he alone had the...

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