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1. Language A: language and literature Internal Assessment
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Global issue: The Effect of Internalized Misogyny on the Female Identity
Texts chosen
Literary text: The Devil’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy
Non-literary text: Newspaper Advertisement by Ironized Yeast Company Inc.





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Notes for the oral (maximum of 10 bullet points) :

A. Duffy reveals Hindley’s internalized misogyny by portraying her twisted attraction towards Brady (lines 2 to 4)
Looked at the girls in the office as though they were dirt” simile, connotations=contempt and inferiority.
“Fancied himself” “Didn’t flirt” “Didn’t speak” “sarcastic” and “rude”, repetition of the plosive D = G.I establish
Brady as figure sexism patriarchal voice, violent and misogynistic attitudes.


B. However..Link to G.I (line 5) listical, powerful descriptive nouns and adjectives “insolent” “dumb” “stare him
out”. Fast paced, internal rhyme, consuming thoughts. metaphor “on fire for him”( in lines 6). Polysyndeton, slow
rhyme, lay emphasis(in line 7) “pouted” “sneered” “scowled”, (line 11) “she swooned in her soul” alliteration,
euphony.


C. Hindley’s internalized misogyny allows her identity to be distorted by Brady. EVIDENCE (line 10) symbolism
and plosive b “he bit my breast”=>takes away her innocence and female identity. (line 12) “He made me bury a
doll” allude to murder of children + control, murder(line 24) metaphor “He held my heart in his fist and he
squeezed it dry” => emotionless even as she was being convicted. “Nobody’s mam” (line 18) rejection of
characteristics that define women- caring nature, element of pride. (line 29) “devil’s wife”.

C. Structure = short and sharp statements + lists. Tone is dark and aggressive => gruesome and harsh effects of her
she is transformed by her internalized misogyny. Esp tone in “bible”=repetition, identity conflict, struggle to
accept. Night=>guilt and awareness, Appeal “What did I do to us all? To myself when I was the devil’s wife.
Rhetoric question, awareness, past tense.

E. Body of work, devil’s wife as anti-world’s wife, warn us on G.I and empower us.

F. Contrast, Uses a problem/benefit persuasion technique. EVIDENCE large speech bubble, attention to problem.
tone = harsh, sexist, reveal, implies. Audience women who have been shamed by men. Reinforces internalized
misogyny. Logos = Large woman beauty stereotype of then, good advice.

G. 1
st
Panel: Woman portrayed as undesirable EVIDENCE skinny exaggerated: bones, swimsuit, male figure is
running => sexist and derogatory

H. 2
nd
panel: Women as cause EVIDENCE Sad expression, speech bubble=> accepts sexism, fault within herself,
sad, change for man not for herself=> internalized misogyny.

I. 3
rd
panel: Emulates the lady giving advice. Man says you’re gorgeous. She smiles, defining her worth. Attribution
technique. Label emphasize urgency

2. The Devil’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy


1. DIRT

The Devil was one of the men at work.
Different. Fancied himself. Looked at the girls
in the office as though they were dirt. Didn’t flirt.
Didn’t speak. Was sarcastic and rude if he did.
I’d stare him out, chewing my gum, insolent, dumb. 5
I’d lie on my bed at home, on fire for him.
I scowled and pouted and sneered. I gave
as good as I got till he asked me out. In his car
he put two fags in his mouth and lit them both.
He bit my breast. His language was foul. He entered me. 10
We’re the same, he said, That’s it. I swooned in my soul.
We drove to the woods and he made me bury a doll.
I went mad for the sex. I won’t repeat what we did.
We gave up going to work. It was either the woods
or looking at playgrounds, fairgrounds. Coloured lights 15
in the rain. I’d walk around on my own. He tailed.
I felt like this: Tongue of stone. Two black slates
for eyes. Thumped wound of a mouth. Nobody’s Mam.

2. MEDUSA

I flew in my chains over the wood where we’d buried
the doll. I know it was me who was there. 20
I know I carried the spade. I know I was covered in mud.
But I cannot remember how or when or precisely where.
Nobody liked my hair. Nobody liked how I spoke.
He held my heart in his fist and he squeezed it dry.
I gave the cameras my Medusa stare. 25
I heard the judge summing up. I didn’t care.
I was left to rot. I was locked up, double-locked.
I know they chucked the key. It was nowt to me.
I wrote to him every day in our private code.
I thought in twelve, fifteen, we’d be out on the open road. 30
But life, they said, means life. Dying inside.
The Devil was evil, mad, but I was the Devil’s wife
which made me worse. I howled in my cell.
If the Devil was gone then how could this be hell?

3. 1930s Newspaper Advertisement by Ironized Yeast Co