Compare and contrast the ways in which Carol Ann Duffy presents female characters in ’The World’s Wife’. The Worlds Wife is a joyous collection of poems about women which was published in 1999‚ which are given a voice in society as the original stories/myths gave women no say. The poems features biblical‚ mythical and historical which are very well known. All the poems are dramatic monologues in a feminist approach. Most poems are seen as witty‚ interesting and hilarious. The main themes shown
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2) What are your feelings about the photographer and his work as you read the poem? Show how the words of the poem have created these feelings in you. After reading Carol Ann Duffy’s poem the “War Photographer”‚ I feel pitiful for the war photographer‚ knowing that he cannot that he would not be able to lead a normal life once the memories from the battlefield haunts him. I also feel that we as society are glad to keep a distance from the harsh realities of war while being just superficially sympathetic
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In war‚ humanity is stripped from the soldiers of war‚ this is seen as soldiers are shot at like they are just targets and not actual people. But in Ann Shin’s‚ “My Enemy‚ My Brother” viewers see the exact opposite‚ where an enemy Iranian helps an enemy Iraqi to save his life. In this story‚ the main character is Zahed or the Iranian and viewers see Zahed the many problems he encounters in his life. He faces these problems with his strong will to take control of his life‚ but viewers also find that
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Introducing Constance In Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)‚ the audience is swept into the playful subconscious of the protagonist‚ Constance Ledbelly. Before she speaks‚ her imaginative nature is introduced by way of Act I‚ The Prologue. The chorus enters giving an intriguing monologue in which the first stages of an exciting transformation begin to unfold. The Prologue is so useful in that it gives indications of plot‚ theme‚ conflict and so on. All of which carry
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How successfully does ‘Demeter’ bring the collection to a close? Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘The Worlds Wife’ explores fiction and fantasy subverted with real life everyday experiences to reveal the truth. Through dramatizing scenes from childhood to adult life she discovers consolation and relief from love. The collections poems are questioning theories‚ marriage and themes such as feminism. Duffy does this in a very liberated‚ witty and sometimes uncomfortable way. Demeter successfully brings this collection
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Picador Word Count Total: 1329 Words Without Quotations‚ Bibliography‚ and Poem Titles: 1193 Words Michael Owens 4175 How typical‚ in terms of language‚ style‚ structure and concerns is ‘Anne Hathaway’ of the collection? Carol Ann Duffy presents Anne Hathaway as a character who is deeply in love with her partner whom she is writing a poem for. This poem shows that the collection is not an act of revenge‚ as it shows how much she loves Shakespeare. It also gives the idea that
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Family Focused Health Assessment L. L. Grand Canyon University August 11‚ 2013 Family Focused Health Assessment As the society we live in continues to transform‚ nurses need a comprehensive tool to assess family’s health patterns. Family units are influenced by environment‚ biological‚ mental‚ social and spiritual factors. Assessing these areas for health promotion and disease prevention will take all of these influences into consideration (Edelman & Mandle‚ 2010). A priority to
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In the readings about men and women‚ there were two stories that stuck out for me. Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” and "Shiloh‚" by Bobbie Ann Mason. To me these stories had many peculiar similarities. I felt that there were so comparable that there seemed to be a true connection between these two novels. In the short story "Hills like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway we were presented a man and his girlfriend. They order a couple drinks as they wait for a train. As the
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How does Carol Ann Duffy challenge the “familiar cultural stereotypes” of women in ‘Mrs Beast’ ? One construction of feminism in the poem is female dominance over men. The Beast is shown as the weaker of the male culture due to his unappealing image “ugly as sin”. The Beast sees the narrators seeming interest in him as a miracle and is portrayed as desperate to keep her attention even it means living with her neglect. Here we see that the there is a reversal of gender stereotype as the Beast takes
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The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down by Ann Fadiman is a very interesting book. It’s amazing how difficult it is for Americans to understand other cultures because the United States is such a diverse country. However‚ as an American‚ I understood the frustrations that Lia Lee’s doctors’ felt when trying to diagnose and treat her properly. In this book both the American doctors and the Hmong peoples faced many hardships and barriers when trying to communicate with each other. After having read
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