Meyers notes, “Otto’s spectral and menacing figure — always dead, not alive — recurs throughout Sylvia’s poems” (78). In “Daddy,” Plath admits to being afraid of her father with by alluding with “I have always been scared of you” (291). Fear of a superior power definitely presents itself within this poem, but the speaker is not the only one affected by victimization. By referring to the Jews and their oppression by the Germans during the Holocaust, “personal as well as historical victimization and attempted vindication are dramatized in Plath’s poem” (Platizky 106). Plath demonstrates the combination of these two victimizations with “[a]n engine, an engine / [c]huffing me off like a Jew” (291). In these lines, Plath relates the speaker’s victimization with a Jew who fell victim to the Nazi war machine. Nevertheless, victimization shares a spotlight in the poem with another attribute: death and the reluctance to let
Meyers notes, “Otto’s spectral and menacing figure — always dead, not alive — recurs throughout Sylvia’s poems” (78). In “Daddy,” Plath admits to being afraid of her father with by alluding with “I have always been scared of you” (291). Fear of a superior power definitely presents itself within this poem, but the speaker is not the only one affected by victimization. By referring to the Jews and their oppression by the Germans during the Holocaust, “personal as well as historical victimization and attempted vindication are dramatized in Plath’s poem” (Platizky 106). Plath demonstrates the combination of these two victimizations with “[a]n engine, an engine / [c]huffing me off like a Jew” (291). In these lines, Plath relates the speaker’s victimization with a Jew who fell victim to the Nazi war machine. Nevertheless, victimization shares a spotlight in the poem with another attribute: death and the reluctance to let