Question

Discuss Plath’s obsession with death.

Answer 1

Within a period of six years, Ted Hughes faced the sudden deaths of four people dear to him. In February 1963 his estranged wife, Sylvia Plath, gassed herself in her kitchen following his affair with another woman, Assia Wevill. ... Edith suffered a thrombosis, lapsed into a coma and died three days later.