Critics

Question 1

Lindberg

Answer 1

Images of landscape and animals are consistently turned into metaphors for the human intruder’s feeling of being insignificant and exposed

Question 2

Joyce Carol Oats

Answer 2

Plath is an identity reduced to desperate statements about her ilemma as a passive witness to a turbulent natural world

Question 3

Glyn Austen

Answer 3

The death of her father hung over her like a Ghost

Question 4

McClanahan

Answer 4

“In Ariel the everyday incidents of living are transformed into horrifying psychological experiments of the poet

Question 5

Esther in The Bell Jar

Answer 5

“If I had a baby to wait on all day I THINK i’D GO MAD”

Question 6

Dogs

Answer 6

Plath’s commitment to domesticity was ambivalent

Question 7

Tim Kendall on Edge

Answer 7

“A style of heightened detachment and resignation in the fact of an intractable destiny”

Question 8

MD. Uroff

Answer 8

Plath the “frightened alien” and Hughes the “fearless observer”

Question 9

Betty Friedan

Answer 9

The 50s and 60s were a comfortable concentration camp for women

Question 10

Heather Clark

Answer 10

The intimacy between mother and children is always shadowed by something threatening and ominous

Question 11

Eavan Boilard

Answer 11

Plath “did something radical to the nature poem. She stopped addressing nature and she became it”