The juxtaposition of reality and the supernatural is used to blur reality and suggest her inability to distinguish between reality. This shows that she is confused and her father's influence has caused her to go mad. The use of the supernatural images suggests that her father haunts her and he is always in her mind. "Ghastly statue" The historical events such as the Holocaust suggest that he has destroyed her freedom just the Nazi's destroyed the Jews. "I think I may well be a Jew." This suggests that her father keeps destroying her freedom and can't get rid of him.

The juxtaposition could also suggest that Plath is referring to men controlling women during the early 1930-60. "The vampire who said he was you And drank my blood for a year." this suggests that her father controlled her until he died and then her husband started controlling her and destroyed her again by taking away her freedom. This suggests that women were controlled by men

Also it could suggest that if she's referring to herself as a jew and if her father is speaking German, it creates the image of two opposing people thus creating the image that they wouldn't see eye to eye or communicate well.

At twenty I tried to die

And get back, back, back to you.' 

With a gap of Ten years from the time she buried him to thwe time the speaker tried to join him shows the extensive effect his death had on him. The repetition of the word 'Back' shows her want to talk to him abourt what she is feeling as she never had that chance.

She possibly infers that in her head she has killed these men, maybe through her poems. She has clearly thought in the past that she wanted to kill these men.

The declarative sentence infers that she is regaining control over men after having to deal with her father and her husband being controlling.

Plath's husband 'drank my (her) blood for a year, seven years if you want to know'. There is an element of sarcasm within the description of her father and husband shown by 'Daddy, you can lie back now'. This is an address to her husband and father, telling them both that they can stop haunting her and taking her life.

The metaphor of describing the two men in her life as vampires links to the theme of death running throughout the poem. Vampires are the un dead, meaning they are dead but act as though they are alive. This represents the torture that Plath endures in her mind from her husband and father.

For example, there is a high frequency of juxtaposed images of herself and her father. In the first stanza, she refers to her father as "black shoe" and herself as "poor and white", emphasising her innocence in comparison to her father's evil. This comparison of colours is frequent throughout, such as when she calls him "the black man" in comparison to her "pretty red heart". By use of these juxtapositions, Plath claims that men as a species are dark and dangerous, opposed to the purity of women, linking to her belief that marriage is the corruption of a woman's innocence.

Plath also states "I made a model of you", and "every woman loves a fascist", adjacent to the fact that she believes that all women are corrupted by men into a one-sided relationship. She claims that she lives in a society where women are obliged to marry evil men; and live saddening lives because of it. This is also explanatory of the Electra complex, a Freudian theory where a women is unconsciously romantically in love with her father, and therefore is attracted to those similar qualities in other men. By referring to this theory to exemplify a woman's relationship with her husband ("a model" of a father-daughter relationship) is indicative of the patriarchal views that enable men to control women, and that women must be obedient to men.

Plath's comparison of her husband to 'a Meinkampf look' reflects this idea and pattern of being oppressed, confined and restricted. Also her comparison of her husband's love like a 'rack and a screw' creates this vicious imagery of torture and for Plath, emotional pain. As well as giving this idea of a relationship with constraints to your physical and mental freedom, which clearly impacted greatly on Plath's mental health and possibly led to her downfall ans deterioration.