Striving for Freedom from Patriarchal Authority——A Comparison of Poems “Diving into the Wreck” and “Daddy”

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10.2991/ichess-16.2016.38How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Patriarchal authority, feminism, struggle, freedom

Abstract

This paper discusses the similarity and difference on female’s resistance against patriarchal authority between poems “Diving into the Wreck” and “Daddy”, which were written respectively by American women poets Adrienne Rich and Sylvia Plath. Having suffered in male authority and control, the female speakers made their efforts to strive to control their own life and be free of male domination, but in a way of sharp contrast. Rich made positive and optimistic practice, while Plath, more pessimistic and negative, went astray in self-destruction. Anyway, after the process of suffering and struggling, Rich and Plath have finally reached the freedom they want.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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