1. Sinister Personas in Works of Carol Ann Duffy
The anonymous person in "Education for Leisure" represents an evil persona by his belief of playing God. ... However, the persona also mentions that his 'mind as cold as the slice of ice within' his 'own brain' which implies to how the persona is emotionless, thus linking to how he thinks about himself, as an insensitive person. ... Additionally, in the poem the reader assumes that the persona has a bad history as he mentions in the first stanza that he 'has had enough of being ignored' which suggests the persona has always felt invisible and never g...
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