Women are asked to 'die' and reinvent themselves as images of feminine perfection as mediated by culture. Plath's poetry explores an intense inner world of fascination with death and the grotesquerie of the female body.
Men look at women.
Plath, Berger and Mulvey 'see' images of women as 'dead', passive, silent and powerless. The camera has traditionally been 'seen' as an eyepiece of the 'male gaze'. This site was created by Helen Papagiannis, student at the University of Toronto , for the course Research in the Arts .