Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange(ICLACE 2022)

Women Should Write Themselves

A Study on Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” and “Ariel”

Authors
Yuefei Chen1, *, , Xiwen Chi2,
1School of Economics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province, 430074, China
2School of Foreign Studies, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, 050024, China

Those authors contributed equally.

*Corresponding author. Email: u201916362@hust.edu.cn
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Yuefei Chen
Available Online 14 July 2022.
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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange(ICLACE 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
14 July 2022
ISBN
10.2991/assehr.k.220706.033
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.220706.033How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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