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The Devil's Wife

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The Devil's Wife

1. Dirt

- Origins of her relationship with Brady

-The Devil was one of the menat work.

- Mythical evil being in hum-drumsituation

- Brady as a metaphorical devil

- Didn't flirt.

- Behaved aloof - rude, unpleasant.

- Hindley is attracted to badboys

- I'd stare him out, chewingmy gum, insolent, dumb

- Hindley pretended to beunintimidated, unimpressed

- Classic young girl rebellion

- I'd lie on my bed at home, onfire for him.

- Secretly in love with him

- Metaphor shows strengthof her feelings

- He bit my breast. Hislanguage was foul. Heentered me.

- Crude, animalistic.

- Double meaning of entered

- Sexual

- Control of her heart

- I swooned in my soul.

- She was won overcompletely, spiritually

- She was under his spell

- I went mad for the sex

- Colloquial language

- Again, crude, unsophisticated

- The murders themselves

- We drove to the woods andhe made me bury a doll.

- Matter of fact tone

- Unable to acknowledge theyhad killed a person - calls her adoll

- Suggests Hindley thought itwas a plaything

- It was either the woods orlooking at playgrounds,fairgrounds.

- The pair became focussed onthe killings

- Duffy lists where the childrenwere picked up

- Creepy suggestion of looking at

- As though they were spyingon children

- in the rain

- Sad, pathetic, haunting atmosphere

- Ominous

- Her appearance

- Classic image that wascirculated in the papers

- Tongue of stone

- Silent

- Two black slates for eyes.

- Emotionless connotation of slate -stones

- Thumped wound of a mouth

- Violent imagery

- Reflects the violence she wasguilty of

- Bloody

- Nobody's Mam

- An idea Duffy later follows up

- That Hindley was not a woman

- Incapable of maternal love

2. Medusa

- The claustrophobic relationship

- She changed her appearancefor Brady

- Nobody liked my hair. Nobodyliked how I spoke.

- She felt loved by Bradybecause nobody else like her

- Repetition emphasises her isolation

- Her desire for love

- Blames Brday

- Claims he manipulated heraffection for him

- He held my heart in his fistand he squeezed it dry

- Mix of imagery both bloodyand romantic

- Contrast of heart and fist

- The trial and judgement

- Her sentence

- She became so bitterbecause of the public hatredof her

- I heard the judge summingup. I didn’t care.

- Lost any desire to live

- Convicted for life

- I was left to rot. I was locked up,double locked. I know they chucked thekey.

- Emphatic - no chance ofbeing released

- Colloquial chucked suggestsshe doesn't care

- She only cares about hermissing lover

- Reiterated in It was nowt to me.

- She didn't appreciate howserious her situation was

- Only realises later

- But life, they said, means life

- The public image of Hindley

- I gave the cameras myMedusa stare

- Medusa was able to turn a manto stone by looking him in theeye

- Hindley's image could stoppeople in their tracks

- It has become mythical and horrific

- But is it a true representationof her?

- Contrast this bitterness with her vulnerableNobody liked my hair. Nobody liked how Ispoke.

- Unable to accept what shehas done

- I flew in my chains over thewood where we’d buried thedoll.

- Her chains are her handcuffs - asymbol of incarceration

- Repetition of things she knowsfor sure

- I know... I know... I know...

- Contrast with But I cannotremember how or when or preciselywhere

- Is she being selective with hermemory to escapepunishment?

- Still desires Brady

- I wrote to him every day inour private code.

- Hindley and Bradycommunicated by letter whilstunder arrest

- I thought in twelve, fifteen,we’d be out on the openroad.

- Hindley naively hopes to bereleased and reunited withhim

- Her obsessive love did notdim because she was inprison

- Begins to fall out of love with him

- Dying inside

- Double meaning

- Dying in prison

- Emotionally dying in her heart

- I howled in my cell.

- Weeping for her stupidity

- Her heart broken

- If the Devil was gone thenhow could this be hell

- How could she experiencesuch pain without the devil?

- Brady had abandoned her

- Play on words

- The devil as Brady

- The biblical devil

5. Appeal

- Double meaning of appeal

- Reaching out to persuade

- Also legal appeal - attempt tooverturn the sentence

- In 200 Hindley tried to havethe sentence overturned ascruel

- Hindley said she would ratherhave hanged

- Hanging had been abolishedin the UK just months beforethe Moors Murderers trial

- If life means life meanslife means life

- This is ambiguous

- Does she mean that taking alife should result in losing yourlife?

- Or does she mean you shouldbe made to live inpunishment?

- What did I do to us allwhen I was the Devil'swife?

- Suggests that she has tarnished thepopular view that women are toomaternal to commit horrific crimes

- She has smeared thename of her gender

- us all

- Everyone has the capacity to dohorrible things in the rightcircumstances

- Hindley is a reminder ofthis truth

- Metaphor

4. Night

- Hindley's decision in 1987 toconfess her guilt

- Brady's influence hadwaned by this point

- Reference to biblical longdark night

- the long, fifty-year night

- Hindley says she has spenther whole life seekingforgiveness

- words that crawl out of the wall

- Could be talking about theprocess of self-reflection

- Could be words that areheard through the wall of theprison

- Imagery of Hindley graduallybeing surrounded by thesewords

- Suffer. Monster. Burn in Hell

- Words used against Hindleyin the press and media

- She has come to realisewhy she is so hated

- Stark contrast with thedenial ofBible

- When morning comes Ishall finally tell

- Hindley has decided to confess

- Admits her guilt to thepublic AND to herself

- She has tired of lying

- Amen

- The closing of a prayer

- She has made peace withherself

- Shows remorse?

3. Bible

- Hindley's denial continued,after incarceration

- She always insisted Brady hadcommitted the acts and that she wasnever present

- Brady quickly confessed his guilt

- I never not in a millionyears it was him

- I said, No not me I didn’t I couldn’t Iwouldn’t. Can’t remember no idea nonot in the room

- Lack of punctuationsuggests desperate tone

- Constant barrage of denialsuggests determination anddesperation

- Suggests breakdown ofher mental health

- A sonnet in form

- Ironic as it details thebreakdown of a relationship

- Not in any way romantic

- In prison she adopted theCatolic faith