https://padlet.com/emma_gaughan27/quasi en-us 2019-01-09 05:38:17 UTC 2025-09-25 13:27:03 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/emma_gaughan27/quasi/wish/318647230 At the beginning of the poem, I do believe that Mrs Quasimodo was presented as a victim. This changes during the middle of the poem as I feel she is the least victimised as she talks about 'something changing' and then insluts her husband a lot and there is a sense of power coming about her, like she has the confidence to speak her mind. However, towards the end i feel as if she is victimised. People may argue that her expression of anger in destroying everything gives her power, I believe that it is sad. Her hatred for the bells comes from her experiences (sex with Quasimodo, her marriage to a man she loathes, basically her life that she hates). The talk of 'bloody wrists' could also be reference suicide.


]]> 2019-01-09 05:51:27 UTC https://padlet.com/emma_gaughan27/quasi/wish/318647230 https://padlet.com/emma_gaughan27/quasi/wish/318647232 Mrs Quasimodo is presented as an accepting, loving, character - describing what are generally ugly physical traits of Quasimodo's with affection, "And I did kiss each part of him". She bears with the snide remarks entering their marriage, "The Quasimodos. Have you met them? Gross." Only to have Quasimodo begin to shift his interests elsewhere, trapping her in a loveless marriage and filling her with anger and bitterness.]]> 2019-01-09 05:51:33 UTC https://padlet.com/emma_gaughan27/quasi/wish/318647232 https://padlet.com/emma_gaughan27/quasi/wish/318647237 Duffy has presented Mrs. Quasimodo as a victim as she's the one who seems to be being treated unfairly, whilst in the original one (1939 version) its Mr. Quasimodo who feels insecure and not good enough, in Duffy's version the traits were swapped where Mr. Quasimodo treats Mrs. Quasimodo in a way which would make the reader feel sympathetic and bad for her as now she's the one who feels insecure and not good enough as Mr. Quasimodo shows interest in other females. Thus isolating her and victimizing her.]]> 2019-01-09 05:51:34 UTC https://padlet.com/emma_gaughan27/quasi/wish/318647237 https://padlet.com/emma_gaughan27/quasi/wish/318647238 She is a victim throughout the poem until she destroys the bells. Throughout the poem it is implied that she isn't loved anymore and that she is jealous that she doesn't have the attention of Quasimodo. However, when she destroys the bells she is destroying something that he loves which then turns her into the aggressor. 

The way she is portrayed as a victim when she kisses the Queen statue as she is trying to find contact and love however, all she got is coldness and nothingness.]]> 2019-01-09 05:51:34 UTC https://padlet.com/emma_gaughan27/quasi/wish/318647238 https://padlet.com/emma_gaughan27/quasi/wish/318647248 Mrs Quasimodo is portrayed as a victim because the words that she describes herself with after finding out about her husband’s disloyalty shows the impact it had on her- especially when you observe towards the start of the poem, she points out her flaws and the names other people call her but she wasn’t shown as self destructive as she was after finding about Esmeralda because she was comparing herself with her and “fighting” with her for her husband’s attention or love.]]> 2019-01-09 05:51:47 UTC https://padlet.com/emma_gaughan27/quasi/wish/318647248 https://padlet.com/emma_gaughan27/quasi/wish/318647251 She presents her as a victim until she decides to damage and destroy Quasimodos bells. As soon as she does this, she's presented as being just as bad as she actively tries to hurt Quasimodo as much as he hurt her. She could've done something less severe such as talk to him, however, she decided to hurt him back. Before this however, she is presented as a victim because Quasimodo neglects her to the point were she hates herself because she doesn't compare to Esmeralda in terms of looks.]]> 2019-01-09 05:51:51 UTC https://padlet.com/emma_gaughan27/quasi/wish/318647251 https://padlet.com/emma_gaughan27/quasi/wish/318647258 Duffy has presented Mrs. Quasimodo as a victim in the poem as she is first introduced as living alone and scaring cats, even though she has no power over the way she looks. Then after she marries Quasimodo, she is treated unfairly and is pushed aside as soon as he sees a beautiful woman. She then feels isolated and insecure about herself and doesn't know what to do because she loves Quasimodo and he now all looks at her with is disdain. ]]> 2019-01-09 05:51:58 UTC https://padlet.com/emma_gaughan27/quasi/wish/318647258 https://padlet.com/emma_gaughan27/quasi/wish/318647261 Duffy presented Mrs Quasimodo as a victim to the extent that she was betrayed by Quasimodo and she can't do anything about it without hurting herself. Taking her revenge means sacrificing some of the things she loved the most, as well as not making up for the pain of not being loved back. However, Mrs Quasimodo is not a victim because she overcomes the initial jealousy she feels and, driven by her rage, she lets go of everything that reminded her of Quasimodo and of her self-loathing as a deformed person. The symbolic act of 'pissing' on the 'murdered music of the bells' is a reference to her being over the relationship, over her negative feelings about herself and over any emotional connections to her past life. ]]> 2019-01-09 05:51:59 UTC https://padlet.com/emma_gaughan27/quasi/wish/318647261 https://padlet.com/emma_gaughan27/quasi/wish/318647264 Duffy has presented Mrs Quasimodo as a victim throughout the poem. First in the beginning before she meets Quasimodo, she is portrayed to be isolated "name-called" "I lived alone up seven flights"

Duffy shows how vulnerable Mrs Quasimodo is as she feels worthless and insecure when Quasimodo leaves her for a more beautiful woman. However, she isn't a victim towards the end because she overcomes her insecurity and abandons her loveless marriage.

]]> 2019-01-09 05:52:05 UTC https://padlet.com/emma_gaughan27/quasi/wish/318647264 https://padlet.com/emma_gaughan27/quasi/wish/318647271 Mrs Quasimodo is portrayed from the beginning of the poem as being ugly, she mirrors the appearance of Quasimodo. Her sense of loneliness fades when she meets him however when she is betrayed by Quasimodo after opening up to him, her confidence is destroyed as she feels abandoned and neglected (she no longer feels a sense of security)]]> 2019-01-09 05:52:10 UTC https://padlet.com/emma_gaughan27/quasi/wish/318647271 https://padlet.com/emma_gaughan27/quasi/wish/318647272 She presents her as a victim. He shows how vulnerable she is through constantly making her feel worthless or not good enough, even though her husband is the exact same as her (physical wise) but yet is content with himself and is confident enough to go for a 'normal' woman.


]]> 2019-01-09 05:52:10 UTC https://padlet.com/emma_gaughan27/quasi/wish/318647272 https://padlet.com/emma_gaughan27/quasi/wish/318647290 Mrs quasimodo is doubly victimized as not only is she supposedly born with the unprecedented ugliness. But while mr quasimodo got over that by being loved by mrs quasimodo and gaining security, mrs quasimodo was left for a woman with more conventional beauty. Therefore, she is the victim not only of her innate ugliness but also by how she is treated ultimately because of it.]]> 2019-01-09 05:52:35 UTC https://padlet.com/emma_gaughan27/quasi/wish/318647290 https://padlet.com/emma_gaughan27/quasi/wish/318647385 Duffy uses imagery at the end of the poem while explaining how Mrs. Quasimodo dealt with Quasimodo leaving eg, 'bloody wrist', the destruction of the bells etc. to help us sympathize with her. Duffy explicitly shows how mrs Quasimodo feels hatred for herself after her choices and she ]]> 2019-01-09 05:53:58 UTC https://padlet.com/emma_gaughan27/quasi/wish/318647385 https://padlet.com/emma_gaughan27/quasi/wish/639181623 2020-06-24 19:54:25 UTC https://padlet.com/emma_gaughan27/quasi/wish/639181623 https://padlet.com/emma_gaughan27/quasi/wish/923957712 2020-11-15 07:57:41 UTC https://padlet.com/emma_gaughan27/quasi/wish/923957712