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'Education for Leisure' by Carol Ann Duffy (analysis)

Carol Ann Duffy explains why she sees the speaker as a victim, and her aim was to encourage empathy for a disturbed person who has been excluded from school and society. She explains where in Shakespeare some of the imagery came from. Duffy agrees with one pupil that the violent acts carried out tread a line between being horrific and comic.

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