{"id":385,"date":"2017-10-19T12:27:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T18:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dight.stephenrackleff.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2017-10-19T12:27:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T18:27:02","slug":"married-to-the-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/student-posts\/married-to-the-devil\/","title":{"rendered":"Married to the Devil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I read The World&#8217;s Wife I got the sense that Duffy was trying to paint a picture of woman&#8217;s relationship with essentially the rest of society. There&#8217;s comparisons set up by taking a famous or renowned male figure and putting words together to formulate what this figure&#8217;s female counterpart might say and think. Drawing this mental scenario sort of helps us get inside the mind of those who might feel like a lesser half in their marriage, courtship, or general relationship with others. It made me ask the question, what would life be like to be this person&#8217;s spouse when I read each of the poems structured like this. Which brought me back to the book&#8217;s title, The World&#8217;s Wife. It almost makes me feel like the theme that is being portrayed is that women, in general, are usually take a backseat to many things of the world. Society has for many years pushed women out of important roles and positions and has just made them &#8220;wife&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The climax of these comparisons, in my eyes, was the poem The Devil&#8217;s Wife. The line in particular &#8220;I was left to rot. I was locked up, double locked,&#8221; stood out to me. Abandonment and abuse seem to be the theme of this poem, and I think that Duffy describing this as the espousal to the Devil shows how harshly she is trying to condemn the mistreatment of women. Ultimately, I think Duffy could have rewritten the title or added to it something to this affect: &#8220;The World&#8217;s Wife: What it&#8217;s like being Married to the Devil.&#8221; The painting I see portrayed is that the world is full of evil and ignorance, and womankind is unfortunately married to all of it.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/assetsnffrgf-a.akamaihd.net\/assets\/m\/502012505\/univ\/art\/502012505_univ_sqr_xl.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for the devil holding the world\" \/><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=i&#038;rct=j&#038;q=&#038;esrc=s&#038;source=images&#038;cd=&#038;cad=rja&#038;uact=8&#038;ved=0ahUKEwi4-Jrdp_3WAhXIh1QKHUulD6kQjhwIBQ&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jw.org%2Fen%2Fbible-teachings%2Fquestions%2Fcause-of-suffering%2F&#038;psig=AOvVaw15fRGjOpM3jzqbd6AHdGfb&#038;ust=1508523928430055<\/p>\n<p>video courtesy of YouTube, mostly to be funny, but also one man&#8217;s commentary on a relationship with &#8220;the beast&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3u8mije-fKo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I read The World&rsquo;s Wife I got the sense that Duffy was trying to paint a picture of woman&rsquo;s relationship with essentially the rest of society. There&rsquo;s comparisons set up by taking a famous or renowned male figure and putting words together to formulate what this figure&rsquo;s female counterpart might say and think. 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