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Emily Dickinson's Master letters are an interesting set of works that embody a unique outlookregarding gender relations. Two of the Masters letters, #248 and #233 are examined in thisessay to order to interpret their representation of the authors pure obsession with the addressee,the Master. Both letters contain a bizarre, near masochist content that clearly express theauthors feelings for her Master. The letters strange symbolism and erotic meanings have beenlargely criticized and interpreted in several different angles and speculations have risen toexamine the background to the works as well. Questions have aroused as to whom theaddressee or the Master is, and whether Emily Dickinson is "Daisy" or if the works are merelypure fiction. In both letters the unrealistic fixation with the Master defines the gender relationship,but first the purpose and meanings behind the makings of the letters must be examined. It is important to realize that many aspects of the letters are still uncertain. Many different aspects of the letters have been challenged and they could prove Dickinson's idealintentions. Questions that should be considered are: who the letters are addressed to, are they
She is coming out and revealing her love to him similar to that of how "Etna"(Dickinson 887) erupted and "Pomeii"(Dickinson 887) heard. The letters were written on good paper, but in draft format with several mistakes. This perhaps has a direct reference toWadsworth's geographical move away from her, his "flight to a foreign land", and perhaps alsorefers to his "fight" to maintain his position in the Church. In "Daisy Kneels a Culprit", Master letter # 248, her pleas for the Masters love is onceagain evident. Dickinson even states that "Heaven will disappoint [her]. She is submitting to his rule and the patriarchal way of life. Either way, set conclusions for these seductionletters can not be drawn before considering all these different aspects that could reshape itsmeaning. These examples are just a fewof her obsessed thoughts concerning her love for her master and many more are presented in thenext letter that she writes to the Master in # 248. Her statement that the "tomahawk in[her] side"(Dickinson 888) is not as painful as the absence and denial of his love as it "stabs hermore"(Dickinson 888). Through Dickinson's rhetorical seductions the masochist attitude of Daisy isevident and the Master letters are "just as clearly explorations of the general relationshipbetween male power and female powerlessness, male authority and female dependency, [and]pleas for romantic reassurance from a particular man"(Dickinson 857). Thiscould show evidence of taking on a persona, as well as she wrote to her friendly correspondentand literary critic Higginson that "When I state myself as the Representative of the Verse- it doesnot mean-me-but a supposed person" (Dickinson 891). Here she could very well be admittingto the Master letters as merely fiction and taking on a persona like she often did in her otherworks. To classify the speaker in the letters as merely having a crush on the Master is anunderstatement.
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