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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 continue 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 symbols of......

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