For My Daughter Analysis

A Comparison of Othello, “A Pair of Tickets” and “For My Daughter” Emotional abuse is an often-misunderstood form of trauma. It is also called psychological or mental damage, and it is aiming to control, belittle, isolate, and shame other people into subservience. The female characters in Shakespeare Othello, Amy Tan’s “A Pair of Tickets” and Weldon Kees’s “For My Daughter” all must learn how to overcome emotional abuse. Shakespeare emphases Othello’s as the abusive husband, while “A Pair of Tickets” It was the mother of Jing-Mei that embarrasses her and Kees’s is the father that denied his daughter. Whereas Othello, “A Pair of Tickets,” and “For My Daughter have significant differences all female characters Illustrates some emotional

The beginning of the speaker’s line, he introduces and describes his daughter, “Looking in my daughter’s eyes I read” “Beneath the innocence of morning flesh” Concealed, hinting’s of death she does not heed.” (Kees, 384 lines 1, 2, and 3). When he looks at his daughter’s eyes, he sees a very young and naïve little girl. But then he delivers a shock at the end when he said, “I have no daughter, I desire none.” (Kees, 384 lines 14). This part is the truly scary breakthrough of this poem, while we are all worried about the speaker concerned for her daughter’s future, in the end, he didn’t want her. Perhaps he has convinced himself of the immorality of bringing a life into a world where such suffering would lay and wait for the daughter. If there is a daughter, she is suffering from mental abuse from her father. These following lines will dictate whether the father is mistreating his daughter “Bride of a syphilitic or a fool.” (Kess, 384 lines 12). Considering he wanted her to marry a sick man or a fool, what kind of father would do that to her daughter? He would go on and continue to talk down to his daughter “because he sees nothing but betrayal and suffering in his vision of the future.” (Loudon, 1). Sometimes, emotional abuse is tough to prove. Most of the time the father who is throwing this abuse, do not realize that he is damaging the self-esteem of the

Desdemona, Jing-Mei, and the Daughter suffers emotional abuse and from different persons, one from her husband, the other from her mother, and last from her father. Although, not all suffered intense abuse, still not right to do such thing. Othello did not kill Desdemona by jealousy his mind was poison by his trusted official Iago, still Desdemona suffers a lot of insults and name calling compare to a whore. Many will not agree that Jing-Mei mother’s action is not a form of abuse, but people’s perception that will judge that. As one form of mental abuse is what we call covert verbal abuse. The father from the poem “For My Daughter” came from the very dark side of the time. And it would be helpful to ask his daughter to feel understood by him. Surely there were signs of abuse in this poem specially the last line, “I have no daughter, I desire none.” (Kees, 384, line 14). Denying and letting go of your daughter is an obvious sign of