Sunday, October 13, 2019
Carol Ann Duffys Little Red-Cap and Delilah Essay -- Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy's "Little Red-Capâ⬠and ââ¬Å"Delilah" ââ¬Å"During the 1980s, a unique type and style of women-led peace protest strategies emerged that relied on the powerful language, and particularly the powerful imagery of women as a group engaged in an extended protest against nuclear weaponsâ⬠(LaWare 18). Carol Ann Duffyââ¬â¢s book, The Worldââ¬â¢s Wife, was first published in Great Britain in 1999, and two of its dramatic monologues similarly rely on the powerful language and imagery of women engaged in a protest against historically patriarchal narratives and male violence. ââ¬Å"While some peace encampments [in the 1980s] included men and women, many were women only, including one of the first and longest lasting peace encampments, the Womenââ¬â¢s Peace Camp at Greenham Common in Newbury, England, which evolved into and ignited a womenââ¬â¢s peace movementâ⬠(LaWare 18). ââ¬Å"[T]housands of women from Britain and the worldâ⬠¦ later visited and lived at the camp during its almost twenty years of existence, until the last group of women left in 2000[,]â⬠and while itââ¬â¢s not clear whether Duffy visited the camp, the campââ¬â¢s strategies of resistance are embedded in two of her poems (LaWare 19). The speakers of ââ¬Å"Little Red-Capâ⬠and ââ¬Å"Delilahâ⬠employ the campââ¬â¢s strategies of physically embracing a symbol of male violence, subsequently defacing the symbol through an act of creative nonviolence, and finally transforming the symbolââ¬â¢s patriarchal sphere into a space filled with peace and feminine imagery. First, the speakers of Duffyââ¬â¢s two poems resemble the protestors at Greenham Common who physically embraced a symbol of male violence: [T]he Greenham Common Womenââ¬â¢s Peace Camp gained both national and international attention in D... ...orldââ¬â¢s Wife. New York: Faber, 1999. 28-29. ---. ââ¬Å"Little Red-Cap.â⬠The Worldââ¬â¢s Wife. New York: Faber, 1999. 3-4. Holy Bible, New International Version. Zondervan, gen. ed. International Bible Society, 1984. BibleGateway.com. Gospel Communications International. 14 May 2005 search=judges%2016&version1=31>. LaWare, Margaret L. ââ¬Å"Circling the Missiles and Staining Them Red: Feminist Rhetorical Invention and Strategies of Resistance at the Womenââ¬â¢s Peace Camp at Greenham Common.â⬠NWSA Journal 16.3 (2004): 18-41. Little Red Riding-Hood Picture Book. London: George Routledge and Sons, circa 1870. The Little Red Riding Hood Project. Ed. Michael N. Salda. Dec. 1995. The de Grummond Childrenââ¬â¢s Literature Research Collection, University of Southern Mississippi. 14 May 2005
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