`daddy`,by siylvia plath

Sylvia Plath 's poem Daddy ' compares the father who abandoned her in untimely death

to a Nazi and a brute . Otto Plath died of gangrene when Sylvia was eight , which could have possibly been avoided by prompt treatment for diabetes and admission of the reality of his condition to his family (Axelrod

When Sylvia later writes in Daddy

Daddy , I have had to kill you

You died before I had time---

It means she is feeling like an abuse victim in a Hollywood film . Her father was so awful to her

, and eventually she would have had to kill him literally or through cutting him out of her life . Instead , he died before she had time to choose whether she could love him through his abuse , or lack of love that is noted in her own poetic words as follows

Every woman adores a Fascist

The boot in the face , the brute

Brute heart of a brute like you

Despite comparing her now absent father to a Nazi and her sentence of a life without him as to suffering in a concentration camp , she still maintains to adore her captor and the stoic , harsh man she remembers him as . This could well be the reason that Plath was attracted to abusive men , such as her first sexual encounter that hospitalized her , and Ted Hughes who eventually chose another woman over her and their children (Sylvia Plath

The experience of Daddy ' is universal , as many women have lost not-so-loving and loving...