The World's Wife Analysis

Women and Men 's Portrayal in Carol Ann Duffy 's "The world 's wife"
The world 's wife is a collection of poetry which is written by Carol Ann Duffy. She wants to show in her poems that men always want to disregard women through history. In her poems, Duffy tries to change women from an object to a subject that has many rights, such as freedom of speech, and not being restricted by men. In World 's wife, she is revising some famous Greek myths, and fairy tales. While she revises these myths, she tries to change the idea of the original story in order to show her points that she is against or with. Her point from this pottery is to show that women and men were aggressive through history, and both of them used their power in order to control their husband or wife, sometimes this end up with killing their love. On one hand, Carol Ann Duffy in the world 's wife tries show how women were aggressive towards men, however on the other hand, most of her pomes show hostile towards men because she think that men are limiting women 's rights, and they try to exploit women 's nature. In World 's wife, Duffy tries to show how women were aggressive about their relationship with men. In some of her poems, she tries to show that women were too aggressive like men through history. For example, in Ms. Beast, she shows how women were responsible for things that happen to men or society. Some

Men always try to abuse women 's nature, such as beauty, kindness, and love. Through history there were some men that abuse the nature of women for their personal benefits. For instance, she describes the nature of men again as a wolf in Little red cap.( Duffy 1). She loved him because he was telling her good pomes, but after while she will kill him. He used her by telling her poems, and he abused her nature, and this attitude lead the little red cap to kill him because she felt that she was used by him. Another example of abusing women 's nature is Eurydice, " I’d done all the