Feminist Writing In Mirror

Feminist Writing In MirrorFeminism is undeniably one of major themes in her song. The interest essay will similarly be discussing the feminist writing personal manner of Sylvia Plath, specifically as presented in her song Mirror. An ambitious charr writer, Sylvia Plath was sustenance in an era that defined a charwomans role in a male dominated society. She felt imprisoned in this society. The styling that has led to the perseverance of her art and its relevance to society can be attributed to some(prenominal) factors and techniques mutual among her poetry (SAT, 2008).Plath has been considered a deeply honest writer, whose ceaseless self-scrutiny has given a unique load of view to psychological disorder and to the theme of the feminist-martyr in a patriarchal society. (Liukkonen, 2008)Mirror emphasizes on a number of aspects and issues such(prenominal) as women go through discouragement and lone transmission channelss. Freedman discusses Plaths use of the reverberate as a symbol of female passivity, subjugation, and Plaths own conflicted self-identity caused by neighborly pressure to reconcile the competing obligations of artistic and domestic life. (Freedman, October,1993)Mirror narrates the interactions with a narcissist woman. However the woman is probably Sylvia Plath herself as at the frontmost stanza, low sentence of the meter it states clear that I am silver and exact. (Plath, 1961). silver medal is the ambiguity of Sylvia. This woman also keeps on searching her reflection whether in the reflect or the lake. The Mirror boasts, I contrive no preconceptions. (Plath, 1961). The first five sentences of the first stanza are to proclaim that the woman in the poem is always that truthful as well as faithful. It is related with Plaths basis story. For instance, Plath could have accepted the fact of Ted Hughes unfaithfulness and have blamed herself for the declining of her beauty. As a result, she wrote Mirror to describe the pain of an agi ng woman from the liars of guys and the scent of a beauty-declining woman.The Mirror then reports what it usually does it reflects the pink, with speckles on the opposite wall. (Plath, 1961) Here, Plath uses a pink discolor wall to fight her three-year-old age. Joshua also go with this statement, where he comments approximately It is pink, with speckles, and a connection to a freckle-faced child is apparent, implying blemish-free crust and the mirrors own youth (Newtown, 2009). Normally, green would be used instead to represent young. Anyway, the pink might stupefy in from term of pink of health and this colour has represented the femininity. This is justified because in the next line I have looked at it so long I think it is a fictitious character of my heart (Plath, 1961), it mentions that it has gazed at that wall for a long period. It is saying that in her entire life, she has been expected to act equal a female and she has been doing it for so much so now she thinks it must be part of her. She is the woman as male-defined suppositionl or as the ideal manqu, the woman who desires to wait forever the young girl (Freedman, October,1993). The preceding lines Faces and evil separate us over and over. (Plath, 1961), has expounded the despair of loneliness and misery of her come-and-gone relationship, which she never acquire the fruition of a soul- satisfying true love.In the second stanza, again the woman search for her reflection from the lake. But this time, it portrays a phenomenon where woman denies the reality about her physical seeance. The poem says Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me. Searching my reaches for what she really is. (Plath, 1961). The woman is wretched with her appearance and evades from it as she could non accept the reflected appearance of her. It is further explained where it says thus she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon. (Plath, 1961). She keeps herself away from truth of the reflection but preferred to cerebrate the sweet talks and the praises of the moon or candles. In this case, moon or candles might refer as those people who deceive her, praising how beautiful she is, but in fact she is no protracted. However, she is still enjoyed living in those liars or should say she choose to believe those lies. Here arise another(prenominal) feminist issue, which is woman always chooses to accept what is fake but as long as it is worth to believe, rather than to face the reality, the truth or the facts. Just identical Sylvia Plath, she refuses the fact that in her time where women were still imply to do those traditional roles which were cook, clean, and care. Eventually, she has caused too much stress and tensions in the armed combat of her rights, and eventually she committed suicide in 1963.Anyhow, the woman is always beingness reflected faithfully for which the lake would expect gratitude. However, it is practically rewarded with tears and an agitation of hands (Plath, 1961) . This clearly shows how reluctant, dissatisfy and helpless for a woman to accept the faithful report, but the mirror or lake is still very important to her. Mirror discusses the vastness of itself in a womans life. In Mirror for instance, we find a poem of two stanzas where the entire second stanza preoccupies itself with a woman and her relationship to her mirror, which we come to see is really the womans relationship to the view of herself.(SAT, 2008) Freedman stated that for many women writers, the search in the mirror is ultimately a search for the self, often for the self as artist (Freedman, October,1993). I am important to her. She come and goes. (Plath, 1961), this sentence shows that Plath was always looking into the mirror to search for herself. She struggled from an identity crisis of sorts and piece gazing the reflection in the mirror, it could have to deal with her searching for herself. Another microscope stage of view will be the woman indulges herself with hope that she wishes to see herself to appear young and beauty again in front of mirror or lake, that why she keeps on coming and going. However she has disappointed again and again. It clarifies that women do care about their appearance a lot. Joshua also agreed with this statement, where he wrote The mirror is important to the woman, and yet recognizes that she comes and goes as she pleases (Newtown, 2009).This idea is further explained when darkness invade into the womans life. Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness. (Plath, 1961). As mentioned above, the darkness represents the depressions, the loneliness. As day passes, her youth declines and the figure of her age increase. The woman is despair and distressed with her life. This is because she has no one to love her and her life is at the end point where she realizes her youth is passed and yet she got nothing but a failure marriage. In short, the idea here is the scent of a woman with a series of unsuccessful love who had poured in so much time so much hope but eventually never obtains a moderately output whereby she also lost her beauty. It is rather a complicated feeling for a woman when she could not get justified with her efforts in maintaining the relationship.The idea is explored further in the last two lines, where it says, In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman / Rises toward her day after day, like a awesome angle (Mirror 633). The woman in the poem is no longer a young, beautiful woman she is aging, and in the womans eyes that is a terrible thing. (SAT, 2008) The woman in the mirror is no doubt ageing and it is believed that the mirror has accompanied her since young age, observing her growth, and reflecting her withers and languishes to an old one. The last line which describes the woman rise towards her day after day like a terrible fish (Plath, 1961) could hint to the woman is very anxious as she is now like a terrible fish. A terrible fish could be furthe r explained as a woman who has lost her prize and no one will concern about her just like a dead fish and the feeling is pretty terrible. The phrase like a terrible fish further enhances the idea of rebellion. Womens psyche does not merely deal in fairness and beauty it will be terrible when their rights are trampled with no consideration.In conclusion, Sylvia Plath started her feminist writing because, in her time, the society treated women as objects as if they had no mind. Besides, she was very crush by men or more specify her husband. With this Mirror she reflected her despair feeling, the unfairness of the society where women were always dominated by men and also grieves with her declining beauty. With her unique literary style, she often has the themes of feminist criticism in her poetry and Mirror is no exception to the body of her work that remains a relevant part of our literary heritage today. (SAT, 2008)