Duffy Coursework Quotes

Traditional perceptions of suffering

‘locked up, double-locked’

‘they chucked the key. it was nowt to me’

‘dying inside’

‘i howled in my cell’

‘my heart in his fist…squeezed it dry’

‘long fifty-year night’

‘stoned to death’

‘i was the Devil’s wife which made me worse’

‘how could this be hell?’

‘peroxide head on the block’

‘appeal’

‘i was the Devil’s wife which made me worse’

‘my heart in his fist and he squeezed it dry’

‘nobody liked my hair. nobody liked how i spoke’

‘suffer. monster’

2x rhyme conformity

‘shaved and strapped to the chair’

‘monster’

Psychological experience

‘suffer. monster. burn in hell’

i never not in a million years’

‘maybe this maybe that’

‘left to rot’

‘can’t remember no idea not in the room’

‘no idea can’t remember not in the room’ - sentence reversal allows us to more easily understand her psychological suffering

‘i didn’t i couldn’t i wouldn’t’

‘honestly promise you swear’

‘tongue torn out at the root’

‘bible’

‘didnt see didnt know didnt hear’

‘cant remember no idea not in the room’

‘not fair not right not on not true’

‘get me a bible’

‘pygmalion’s bride’

‘tongue torn out at the root’

‘burn in hell’

Complicity

‘my medusa stare’

‘private code’

‘twelve, fifteen’

‘life they said, means life’

‘life means life means life means life’

‘peroxide head’

‘do to us all’

as ‘the Devil’s wife’

‘my outstretched hands for the chop’