The Injustice of Reality: Social Messages in Gilman's "Wedded Bliss" and Plath's "Kindness" Danial Javed College

Poetry is a meaningful expression of art through the illustration of fascinating words and their hidden implication used to reflect the sense of life. Sylvia Plath as well as Charlotte Gilman were both prolific female poets who made a mark in the world of poetry and literature. Both “Kindness” by Sylvia Plath and “Wedded Bliss” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman represent a severe reality though the portrayal of irony that might emphasize the meaning of the external world among people and nature. In “Kindness”, Plath depicts the truth of life while demonstrating the significance of kindness as a powerful opposition to death. She uses irony on a number of instances in her poem including the title to bring out a distorted and shallow expression of what she is going through. Meanwhile, Gilman focuses on the portrayal of marriage among animals as the revelation of absurdity due to their discrepancies. Thus, both authors epitomize the theme of social expectations and the inability of their accomplishment, but Plath glorifies kindness and perceives it though death, and Gilman portrays love via marriage as the impossibility of animals’ kingdom co-existence.

In “Kindness”, Plath concentrates on a deep effect of kindness and its considerable...