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To what extent do you agree with the view that Duffy presents the female characters in The World’s Wife as victims? Refer to 2 or 3 of the poems we have studied so far in your answer.
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To what extent do you agree with the view that Duffy presents the female characters in The World's Wife as victims? Refer to 2 or 3 of the poems we have studied so far in your answer. Duffy very cleverly in "The World's Wife" gets famous myths and tales from the past and turns them around making them have a totally different meaning to their originals. Duffy refers to the women in "The World's Wife" as victims or outcasts. Duffy modernises the poems on a contemporary basis. In this way Duffy shows her own views and as how she sees the women in today's society, not as independent as they should be. Duffy's poems present women suffering for the consequences for the men in their lives. Some of Duffy's women are victims but aren't weak. Out of this collection the poems I will be studying and carefully looking at are Mrs.Quasimodo and...
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