Sylvia Plath is an immense flagrant writer, for her recognition of her feministic perceptions expressed in her well-crafted poetry, during the critical feminism era of the 1960s. Feminism is the belief that women realise their less powerful status towards men, therefore women believe they can reach their full potential and opportunity to be of an equal status or better than men. In this battling gender relations era, the female population showed vacillation and feministic criticisms in forms of literature. There were many greatly attributed feminist icons including Dr Anne Summers, Germain Greer, Simone de Beauvior, Marina Tsvetayeva, Pablo Neruda, Tadeusz Rosewicz and Virginia Woolf.
             Yet, Sylvia Plath is a great exemplification to show feminist ideas in the poems 'Daddy', 'Lady Lazarus', 'The Applicant', 'Kindness' and 'Ariel'. All these poems interrelate to express aspects of objectification of women, marriage dependency, women's creativity, revenge on men and women's independence. Sylvia notices the roles of subordinate women though she also competes for the desire to be a mother and a beloved, loving wife.
             In the poems Kindness and The Applicant, Plath reveals that women in society have little or no value. They are usually being objectified as 'the other' or a negative objective. For example, females are depersonalised as an extra domesticated hand in The Applicant and personified as a sweet housewife and mother in Kindness. :
             To bring teacups and roll away headaches
             And do whatever you tell it." (The Applicant)
             Here women are known as the stereotypical housewives being advertised for men to function for males' benefits. Females are treated with no identity or individuality but only as a hand and a living doll..."A living doll, everywhere you look. It can sew, it can cook, it can talk, talk, talk." The repetition of the word t...