MEN ACT AND WOMEN APPEAR: OBJECTIFICATION GAZE IN SELECT POEMS OF CAROL ANN DUFFY

Abstract

The Aim of this paper is to figure out the various causes of Women being treated as Object in reduction to Body and their Appearance. Objectification theory suggests that women frequently experience objectification gaze and have many negative effects. There are very few research articles written in the literature that question the above objectification reduction to body and Objectification on reduction to appearance by the male spectators. “When sexually objectified, women tend to be reduced to their sexualized body parts destined to satisfy others’ needs and desires” (Mulvey 12). The objectification of women is one amongthe central themes of Duffy’s work, which has many interrelated forms and manifestations. Duffy wields the dramatic monologue to add tone to several female characters and distance herself as a writersimply sothose characters can specific themselves freely. Her manipulation of the dramatic monologue allows her to distance herself from any of the characters speaking within the poetic texts, and this aesthetic distance that enables her to play a staging role that permit her to be an invisible director.

Keywords: Objectification, Sexually, Anxiety,