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This individual oral outline summarizes and analyzes two literary extracts related to the global issue of infidelity and jealousy. [1] It discusses Carol Ann Duffy's poem "Medusa" and Edvard Munch's painting "Jealousy" from 1907. [2] Both works explore how jealousy can transform and damage someone's psyche from the perspectives of a betrayed woman. [3] Key symbols and rhetorical devices used in "Medusa" are analyzed, as well as the expressionist style and compositional elements of Munch's painting that convey melancholy and the psychological impacts of infidelity.

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Final IO Outline

This individual oral outline summarizes and analyzes two literary extracts related to the global issue of infidelity and jealousy. [1] It discusses Carol Ann Duffy's poem "Medusa" and Edvard Munch's painting "Jealousy" from 1907. [2] Both works explore how jealousy can transform and damage someone's psyche from the perspectives of a betrayed woman. [3] Key symbols and rhetorical devices used in "Medusa" are analyzed, as well as the expressionist style and compositional elements of Munch's painting that convey melancholy and the psychological impacts of infidelity.

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Final Individual Oral Outline

Literary Extract: Medusa by Carol Ann Duffy


Non Literary Extract: Jealousy 1907 by Edvard Munch

Global Issue: Infidelity and jealousy and their impact on the human psyche

1. Culture id and comm, Relevant in divorce, betrayal, cheating, relationships are


universal, relationships are serious and can result in long term self esteem issues

2. Duffy feminist writer, World’s wife, womanly perspective

3. Medusa intertextuality, glance turns stone greek mythology, Athena celibacy


punishes, “filthy snakes” Line 1, Gorgon dragon myth relate

4. Rhetorical questions, Line 38-39, self doubt and longing for before, Line 9 hypophora
sadistic, sibilance Line 4, 24, 32, hissing snakes

5. Symbolism, Line 32 (fire = anger), Greek God statue?, sword and shield attack and
defence mechanisms

6. Expressionist oil modern, Series: the Green Room, 8 versions, same characters. Level
reputation

7. Use of colour, opposite of red (love), woman face blood? blush?, white dress
innocence, green faced men

8. Composition, staring at readers repeated motif, other man’s aversion to vulnerability,


shadow melancholic mood

9. Facial expressions and body language, oblivious hand in hair, man blank, closed eyes
because subject has no interest

10. Global issues talks of insanity, self doubt and anger, revenge? Common issue but
dealing is hard to remember, procedure
Extract 1.: Jealousy 1907, in just kidding

Extract 2
1.which turned the hairs on my head to filthy snakes,
2.as though my thoughts
3.hissed and spat on my scalp.

4.My bride’s breath soured, stank


5.in the grey bags of my lungs.
6.I’m foul mouthed now, foul tongued,
7.yellow fanged.
8.There are bullet tears in my eyes.
9.Are you terrified?

10.Be terrified.
11.It’s you I love,
12.perfect man, Greek God, my own;
13.but I know you’ll go, betray me, stray
14.from home.
15.So better by far for me if you were stone.

16.I glanced at a buzzing bee,


17.a dull grey pebble fell
18.to the ground.
19.I glanced at a singing bird,
20.a handful of dusty gravel
21.spattered down.

22.I looked at a ginger cat,


23.a housebrick
24.shattered a bowl of milk.
25.I looked at a snuffling pig,
26.a boulder rolled
27.in a heap of shit.

28.I stared in the mirror.


29.Love gone bad
30.showed me a Gorgon.
31.I stared at a dragon.
32.Fire spewed
33.from the mouth of a mountain.

34.And here you come


35.with a shield for a heart
36.and a sword for a tongue
37.and your girls, your girls.
38.Wasn’t I beautiful?
39.Wasn’t I fragrant and young?

40.Look at me now.

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