Analysis of Sylvia Plath Lady Lazarus

In the Poem “Lady Lazarus”, poet Sylvia Plath uses allusions, symbolism, and irony to convey to the audience the theme “Oppression leads to an eventual rebellion.” The poems shows Plath’s own suicide attempt and tells us little of the actual event. Plath’s suicide and depression dealt with multiple factors such as the death of her father, her struggle for her power as a woman in her society, several publishers’ lack of interest in her early poetry, and the affair by her husband Ted Hughes. Plath’s poetry struggled to become published because she lived in the Patriarchal period where women were rarely known for many accomplishments. Another reason is because critics said that some if not all of her poetry dealt with death and suicide.
The title “Lady Lazarus” is an allusion to the bible; it refers to the biblical character Lazarus, a man whom Jesus resurrected from the dead. Lady Lazarus which is without a doubt referring to Plath herself, as this is an example of confessional poetry; the "Lazarus" being an allusion to the biblical figure is an accurate indicator of the content of the poem. "Lady Lazarus" is refers to Plath's third attempt at suicide, and her succeeding 'resurrection'. Plath also makes reference to Lazarus in line 17 “The grave cave ate will be”, referring to a grave cave that was similar to the tomb in which Lazarus was buried in and resurrected from.
Another allusion Plath uses refers to the life of the of a Jew in a Nazi concentration camp with a simile and metaphor in lines 5-9 “Bright as a Nazi lampshade, My right foot A paperweight, My face a featureless, fine Jew linen.”, which is an example of how Nazis created lampshades from the skin of a Jew. To further the allusion to the life of a Jew lines 76-78 “A cake of soap, a wedding ring, a gold filling.” are used to make reference to the bar of soap could relate back to when Nazi’s soap was said to be made out of the burnt victims from the Jewish holocaust. The wedding ring could just be again