Women’s Right in U.S. and Korea

- Sylvia Plathand

Moon Jeong HeeGROUP 5

Index Sylvia Plath

and <Lady

Lazarus>

Moon Jeong Hee and

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Suppressed Womenin Korea

Conclusion:<Lady Lazarus> and TODAY

Suppressed Womenin U.S.

About Sylvia Plathand

<Lady Lazarus>

Sylvia Plath doubted and rebelled to atmosphere at that time.

As a poet and as a women, she expressed her anger and resistance

against society in her poem.

Male-dom-inated

ideology

Patriarchal authoritar-

ianism

“Lady Lazarus” In male-dominated society,

the narrator wanted to escape from androcentric atmosphere.

By committing suicide, she revived with her own power

and got an immortality like aphoenix.

Suppressed Women in U.S.

Suppressed women in 1950s

Angelic women that sacrificed herself for husband

and children

devilish women that pursued a liberation

and re-sisted to

male’s au-thority

Moon Jeong Heeand

her Korean poems

Moon Jeong Hee (1947~)

Like Sylvia Plath,

she has spoken up for

right of womenin the manner of Korean

sentiment.

< 그 많던 여학생들은 어디로 갔는가 >

They had ability

BUT

Being as a helperin home

Being as an assistant

in societyReally ‘Good fortune’?

Still they arebeing as minor

Life for husband

There weremany girl students

But now,WHERE ARE THEY?

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Comparison be-tween poems

Narrator<Lady Lazarus

>1st per-

sonPower-

ful voice

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1st per-son

By her-self but

NOT Power-

ful

< 그 많던 ~>3rd per-

sonBy

some-one else

Reaction<Lady

Lazarus>

ACTIVE REAC-TION

< 유령 >PAS-SIVE

REAC-TION

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PAS-SIVE

REAC-TION

Suppressed Women in Korea

Trend of public opinion in Korea

WOMEN

Cooks,Cleaning ladiesfor husbands

Mothers,Babysittersfor children

Housewives

Assistants of men

Trend of public opinion in KoreaHard to get a job

Finally get a job?

A job based on prejudices of women

Deep-rooted glass ceiling

Still need to do house chores

When a women tries to get a job in Ko-

rea…

Suppression of women in Korea

According to recent research of World Economic Forum,

Korea is 117th among 142 nations in the state of gender equality.

Conclusion

<Lady Lazarus> and TODAY

In <Lady Lazarus>, her (active) runaway from so-ciety was couldn’t be helped

Today in Korea, it CAN be helped.

NOT reject to remain inside so-ciety,

BUT struggle with own ability inside society.

BUT

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