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The Devil's Wife - Coggle Diagram
The Devil's Wife
Medusa
her sentence
She became so bitter because of the public hatred of her
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lost any desire to live
convicted for life
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emphatic - no chance of being released
"it was nowt to me"
she didn't appreciate how serious her situation was
only relises later
colloquial 'chucked" suggests she doesn't care
she only cares about her missing lover
the public image of Hindley
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Meduse was able to turn a man to stone by looking him in the eye
Hindley's image could stop people in their tracks
trial and judgement
Unable to accept what she has done
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Her chains are her handcuffs - s symbol of incarceration
repetition of things she knows for sure
"I know... I know... I know..."
contrast with "but I cannot remember how or when or precisely where"
Q: Is she being selective with her memory to escape punishment?
claustrophobic relationship
blames Brady
claims her manipulated her affection for him
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she felt loved by Brady because nobody else likes her
repetition emphasises her isolation
her desire for love
she changed her appearance for baby
Still desires Brady
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Hindley naively hopes to be released and reunited with him
Her obsessive love did not dim because she was in prison
Hindley and Brady communicated by letter whilst under arrest
beings to fall out of love with him
"Dying inside"
Double meaning
Emotionally dying in her heart
Dying in prison
"I howled in my cell"
Weeping for her stupidity
Her heart broken
Dirt
Origins of the relationship with Brady
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Secretly in live with him
Metaphor shows strength of her feelings
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Crude, animalistic
Double meaning of "entered"
sexual
control of her heart
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Hindly presented to be unintimidated, unimpressed
classic young girl rebelion
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she was won over completely, spiritually
she was under his spell
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Behaved alood - rude, unpleasant
Hindley is attracted to "bad body"
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colloquial language
again, crude, unshophisticated
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Misogynistic view of women
Use of simile
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mythical evil being in hum-frum situation
Brady as a metaphorical devil
The murders themselves
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unable to acknowledge they had killed a person - calls her "a doll"
Suggests Hindley thought it was a paything
matter of fact tone
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the pair became focussed on the killings
Duffy lists where the children were picked up
"looking at"
they were spying on children
"in the rain"
sad, pathetic, haunting atmosphere
ominous
Her appearance
classic image that was circulated in the papers
"two black slates for eyes"
emotionless connotation of slate - stones
"thumped wound of a mouth
Violent imagery
reflects the violence she was guilty of
bloody
"tongue of stone"
silent
"nobody's mam"
an idea Duffy later follows up
the Hindley was not a woman
Incapable of maternal love