Literature and Suffering

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An analysis of the works ?A Rose for Emily? by William Faulkner, ?Daddy? by Sylvia Plath, ?My Papa?s Waltz? by Theodore Roethke and ?Hamlet? by William Shakespeare. This paper looks at these literary pieces and how the authors effectively depict suffering through social oppression, gender stratification, physical abuse, and emotional abuse and torment. The writer examines each work as the author's medium for expressing their views on society and the suffering of the people.

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"The first lines of the poem establish the repression she had felt under her father's authority: "You do not do, you do not do/ Any more, black shoe/ In which I have lived like a foot" Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.? These lines are symbolic of the feelings Plath has for her father, which is represented by the "black shoe." Plath expresses her freedom from her father's authority (implying the repression that she had been subjected into) by saying that she "lived like a foot" "inside" the "black shoe." Contained under her father's authority, Plath's speaker reflects on her life with her father, where she cannot be herself."

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