Women Should Write Themselves
A Study on Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” and “Ariel”
Those authors contributed equally.
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.220706.033How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Sylvia Plath; “Daddy”; “Ariel”; The Laugh of the Medusa; Hélène Cixous
- Abstract
In the poems “Daddy” and “Ariel”, Sylvia Plath breaks with the tradition of male writing rules in terms of both language and writing perspective, contrasting the images of ‘father’ and ‘mother’ under a patriarchal society. Hélène Cixous in her work The Laugh of the Medusa emphasizes that women writers should write about themselves, and that a fundamental feature of women’s writing is to always include the image of the ‘mother’ in their work. This paper focuses on these two aspects to explore Sylvia Plath’s approach to her writing as a female writer and the image of ‘mother’ in her poems “Daddy” and “Ariel”. The study will provide readers with a new perspective on how female writers employ different modes of writing from those formed by men, and how female writers write about themselves.
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- © 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Yuefei Chen AU - Xiwen Chi PY - 2022 DA - 2022/07/14 TI - Women Should Write Themselves BT - Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange(ICLACE 2022) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 160 EP - 163 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220706.033 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.220706.033 ID - Chen2022 ER -