'Compare How Duffy and Armitage Write About Violence in Salome and Hitcher Essay\r'

'‘Salome’ and ‘Hitcher’ both use a first person persona and with that, infract us insight into their feelings and the theme of vehemence throughout both poems.\r\nIn ‘Salome’, Duffy’s character uses a nonchalant odor with no remorse when depicting her actions, which is too present in ‘Hitcher’ too. Salome had ‘ do it onward’ and will ‘doubtless do it over again’ but is oblivious of the repercussions of what she has just stated. She is a promiscuous character and is unaware of what she has done until the withstand stanza, whereas the narrator in ‘Hitcher’ is full conscious of his actions. He ‘lets him have it’ and is chivalrous of his actions and his ability to non swerve season attacking the hitchhiker. His colloquial servicemanner represents that he sees it as an entertaining story and how he is unaffected by his actions.\r\nNear to the final stage of ‘Sa lome’ she decides to clean up her act, becomes repentant of how she has behaved. In comparison, Hitcher just drives away from the body and is vile as to his fate; he does not care if he’s liveborn; he just ‘lets him out’. His free-and-easy description of how the body bounces and disappears questions his mental constancy and his possession of a conscience. Salome also defends herself, describing the man as a ‘beater or biter’, proposing that she reacted in self-defence although she could also be referring to herself. The diaphragm ‘b’ also portrays the violence problematic with those words.\r\nAt the end of ‘Hitcher’, the concluding mates is sarcastic and ironic, seeing as the intend recipient is no longer with him. He recalls thinking ‘Stitch that’ as if the hitchhiker got what he deserved. To him, it’s a joke. Similarly, Salome states ‘ain’t life a bitch’, which is also ironic, as the person she is speaking to is dead. She doesn’t care; he could be whatsoever old Simon Andrew or John.\r\nHitcher’s informant to the weather is normal, which shows how his behaviour hasn’t squeeze him; the murder was the therapy for his anger as his sentinel is now pleasant. The fact that he and the hitchhiker were of the like age wasn’t of particular proceeds to him, they both had the same opportunities, yet immensely different paths. The mention of this shows how he bath crack at and given moment, and his financial aid for the inconsequential. Salome’s therapy for her hangover was her maid’s ‘ sinless clatter’, so irrelevant Hitcher’s methods. The fact that Salome calls her maid ‘innocent’ shows how naïve and unknowing she is about Salome. She’s Salome’s opposite. The rhythmic repetition of the ‘er’ sound emulates the sound of her footsteps which soothes Salome after her darkness on the ‘batter’. This shows the violence which ensued last night and all the aggression, as good as inverting the female stereotype or passiveness.\r\n'