Bethany Smith
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The death-drive and the drive to self-indetermination in Sylvia Plath’s ‘Ariel’
Bethany Smith If death is seen to be the ultimate fear of the human psyche, the subject is faced with two options — to find any means necessary to escape it, or to aggressively confront it in hopes of making it less of a fear. Many human actions are driven by the desire to escape…