IOP Script The Diet by Carol Ann Duffy - Free Essay Example

Sample details Pages: 2 Words: 624 Downloads: 1 Date added: 2019/02/15 Category Health Essay Level High school Topics: Diet Essay Did you like this example? Theme: Duffy conveys the theme of societal expectations and how one may attempt to reach the unattainable vision that society portrays as the â€Å"ideal person,† resulting in their constant deterioration and self-harm. Subthemes/Body Points: Societal Expectations Unattainable Vision Constant Deterioration and Self Harm I. Introduction Outline; what will be on each slide Theme Explain the three subthemes . Explain the theme as a whole II. Social Expectations Repetition of â€Å"she† . Lack of name; the issue is common in society and widely overlook . â€Å"No sugar, salt, dairy, fat, protein, starch or alcohol† (Duffy 2-3). . Modern fad diets . Diet leaves out necessary parts of the food pyramid Explain food pyramid visual â€Å"She was anorexia’s true daughter† (Duffy 16). Personification Shows how strong of a hold Anorexia has Society’s child turned into Anorexia’s child You are your looks â€Å"She stayed near people, lay in the tent of a nostril like a germ† (Duffy 36-37). Simile The people didn’t care; overlooked issue â€Å"Germ† – keeps shrinking III. Unattainable Vision â€Å"The diet worked like a dream† (Duffy 1).,/liSimile/ dictions Comparing the diet to a dream; this dream is unattainable Connotation/ denotation Don’t waste time! Our writers will create an original "IOP Script The Diet by Carol Ann Duffy" essay for you Create order Distinguishing factor; society’s expectation is that they want you to be a certain way what society wants vs what she wants; no longer independent – dependent on what society wants â€Å"Chomped and chewed and gorged; inside the Fat Woman now, trying to get out† (Duffy 55-56) Never-ending cycle; cycles don’t have an end-point Capitalization of â€Å"Fat Woman† = the type of person society doesn’t want you to be â€Å"Inside every fat woman is a thin woman trying to get out† Spin on this saying; She is a â€Å"fat† and healthy person trying to get out of the anorexic body â€Å"The height of a thimble, She sat at her open window and the wind blew her away† (Duffy 19-21). Fairytale allusion Magical realism; realistic views of world with magical elements Partly real, partly not Fairytales are not real; they are just like a dream IV. Constant Deterioration and Self-Harm â€Å"She starved on, stayed in, stared in the mirror, svelter, slimmer† (Duffy 8). Alliteration/ Consonance Svelter means â€Å"Slimmer† Constant use of the â€Å"s† sound auditorily shows the reader that the starvation is a constant process; the sound makes you salivate; short sharp tone Harsh imagery of physical appearance â€Å"She was all eyes, all cheekbones, had guns for hips† (Duffy 12-13). Metaphor Her hips are literally protruding so much that they are sharp and able to hurt people but metaphorically, the anorexia is killing her, like guns kills people (connotation/ denotation) â€Å"By the end of week one Half a stone Shrinking† (Duffy 3-4). â€Å"a fortnight in , she was eight stone† (Duffy 5-6). â€Å"by the end of the month she was skin and bone† (Duffy 6-7) Internal rhyme: Stone/ Bone Progression of time; keeps shrinking; physically disappearing Losing her identity along with her weight â€Å"skeleton† (Duffy 11). â€Å"A shadow† (Duffy 17). [SIDE NOTE] Eventually author comments on how ppl will go to such attempts to please other ppl because they seek validation from external factors; external source of happiness iii. two similar forms of external satisfaction (society’s views vs. food); author inhibits one: food; one is healthy, and one isn’t V. Structure Free verse; occasional rhymes Internal rhymes Example: â€Å"breakfast, lunch, dinner, thinner† (Duffy 4-5). Significance to them; loss of control Each stanza indents to where the prior one ends Continuous starvation; no time to pause Cyclical Structure Starvation to indulgence to starvation Significance of title Diets are the things that stand out for the girls; they can be healthy or non-healthy VI. Activity/Questions a. Awareness of the influence of society VII. Real World Example: Models Struggles with eating disorders Harsh realities of model industry VIII. Revisit theme