The Struggle in Lady LazarusLady Lazarus repeats the struggle between Nazis and Jews that is used in Daddy, with Nazi atrocities as the backdrop through which the astonishing speaker advances which is renewed. The speaker orchestrates every aspect of her performance, attempting to undermine the power an audience would normally have over her. She controls her body, instead of being a passive object under the gaze of other eyes. The speaker orders her enemy to peel off the towel, telling the audience that her performance is paying off, but that death for her is nothing more than a big striptease. Am I terrified? » she asks rhetorically, she knows the effect she has on them. Lady Lazarus intentionally contributes to the spectacle that fetishizes her; she compartmentalizes herself, These are my hands, / My knees, harshly mocking the gentlemen and ladies whose morbid greed she reveals. She is both compassionate and contemptuous: Do not think that I underestimate your great concern. Her disembodiment at the hands of the enemy, viewed eagerly by the peanut-munching crowd, is something she wants, as does ...