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IB HL English Language and Literature: The World's Wife (written task 2)
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Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife Collection through a feminist lens
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OutlineWritten Task 2 (Part 3)
Text: The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
Question: How and why is a social group represented in a particular way?
Intro
Background info on collection of poems
How women have been treated traditionally as shown by historical figures in the poems vs. similar
treatment now
Thesis: women are represented as inferiors to men who are the bases of all their problems
Paragraph 1: injustice to women
‘Mrs.’ prefix = property of their husbands, no identity
Women are neglected
o MEDUSA, MRS. RIP VAN WINKLE, MRS. SISYPHUS
Paragraph 2: women are strong
Men neglect them but they find their identities
Poem progresses, power progresses
o MEDUSA, MRS. LAZARUS, PENELOPE
Conclusion (add subtlety)
Duffy writes about strong women who find their identities by themselves yet the men always
return (a nod to present times where men are mostly in control)
*THEMES: masculinity, female empowerment, identity, acceptance
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