THE REPRESENTATION OF THE NAZI REGIME IN GERMAN CIVILIZATION SEEN FROM THE SELECTED SYLVIA PLATH’S POEMS

Abstract

The Representation of the Nazi Regime in German Civilization Seen from the Selected Sylvia Plath’s Poems; Maria Ulfa, 080110191017, 2013; 76 pages; English Department Faculty of Letters University of Jember

This research tries to decipher the portrait of Nazism in the selected Plath‘s poems. This research also wants to contribute knowledge and to complete discourse about Nazism that is not mentioned in the prior researches. Plath represents her judgment of Nazism in the poems through a discourse. From her female tongue, she tends to construct Nazism in the cruelt y of male‘s authority. This thesis uses historical approach for understanding the social structure of historical Nazism in the poems based on Greenblatt‘s new historicism. This thesis gives the knowledge of Nazism in woman‘s point of view. The application of the method in this thesis begins from the spesific data as the main source; Daddy, Lady Lazarus, and Mary’s Song to the broader one (the representation of the Nazi regime). The results of the research show the portrait of Nazism in female tongue as the male product. Nazism attributes are used in the text as an aesthetic way in exploring the Nazi‘s violence that is imagined paralel to male‘s violence in patriarchal system. Hence, the attributes exploration shows the brutality of Nazi in hegemonizing German people to take Nazi‘s program as God‘s will. The result, there is a misapplication in religious dogma for certain goals. Moreover, through the text of the poems, Plath brings parts of the German history through her emotions under the Nazi regime reflected in the poems