Fear-vs-Justice Have you ever been in a situation where you had something horrible happen in your life that you needed to do something about, but in order to do something about it, you had to confront the problem and that caused you pain and more troubles? I believe that to be the underlying conflict in Adrienne Rich’s “Rape”. The main character who the speaker is talking to first is a woman who has been …showed first 75 words of 718 total…

…showed last 75 words of 718 total…the woman is unsure of who violated her. “Rape”, by Adrienne Rich, is a poem about a woman who was violated. At first the reader suspects the policeman as her rapist, then it seems like she suspects someone else. After writing this paper, I come up with another possible theory. I believe that no one she knows is her rapist, she just sees all males as possible rapist and feels scared and threatened by them.