slyvia paths mushrooms
A MARXIST APPROACH TO SYLVIA PLATH’S “MUSHROOMS” Although Sylvia Plath is known as a true “literalist of the imagination” and her vision does not have a philosophic sense; in Mushrooms, she elaborates a subject in the light of Marxist philosophy. ... In this poem, mushrooms represent the oppressed and the ruled, they are the workers who are forced to live in bad conditions. ... Plath personifies mushrooms as the workers in a capitalist system. Hence, the Marxist term “alienation” appears with the personification of mushrooms. ... In mushrooms, the quality of menace is even more chillingly detected in the sinister, almost cancerous proliferation of fungus.