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In the poem “Daddy”, Sylvia Plath says that there are women who, due to
early conditioning, find themselves without the tools to deal with oppressive and
controlling men. They are left feeling helpless and hopeless. For some women, the
struggle is never resolved, others take most of a lifetime. For a lucky few, they are
granted a reprieve.
The speaker in this poem is Sylvia Plath. The poem describes her feelings of
oppression and her battle to come to grips with the issues of this power imbalance.
The poem also conjures the struggle many women face in a male dominated society.

The conflict of this poem is male authority and control versus the right of a
female to be herself, to make choices, and be free of male domination. Plath’s
conflicts begin in her relationship with her father and continues with her husband.
The intensity of this conflict is extremely apparent as she uses examples that cannot
be ignored. The atrocities of NAZI’ Germany are used as......

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