Context

A 1933 film depicted the monster King Kong who falls in love with a beautiful actress. The ape is caught and brought to New York City where it is exploited for profit however his love for the actress causes him to break free and go searching for her. He is killed after a dramatic scene on the Empire State Building.

Theme

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Language/imagery

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'My little man'

'pastrami on rye'

'this island's a paradise'

'I'd been so lonely'

'in the heat / of my own pelt'

'gorgeous'

'that no gorilla could do'

'He was nervous.' 'His colleagues always sent him out pretty quick'

'peel him, put the tip of my tongue to the grape of his flesh' - fruit

'hopped up and down on my heartline'

'Didn't he know I could swat his plane from these skies like a gnat?'

'I thumped at my breast, distraught'

'I bled when a fat, red moon rolled on the jungle roof'

'the New York skyline a concrete rainforest'

'I was discreet' - unreliable narrator trope

'a blown-up photograph of myself' - film poster

'I picked him, like a chocolate from the top layer'

'tip of the Empire State Building' allusion to the iconic film poster

helicopters likened to 'dragonflies' - natural imagery

'his plaintive, lost tunes'

'like a doll'

'I wear him now about my neck, perfect, preserved, with tiny emeralds for eyes' irony of transforming a man into jewellery - goes against the values and stereotypes of patriarchal society

Structure

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Little Red Cap", "Thetis", "Queen Herod", "Mrs. Midas", "from Mrs. Tiresias", "Pilate's Wife", "Mrs. Aesop", "Mrs. Darwin", "Mrs. Sisyphus", "Mrs. Faust", "Delilah", "Anne Hathaway", "Queen Kong", "Mrs. Quasimodo", "Medusa", "The Devil's Wife", "Circe", "Mrs. Lazarus", "Pygmalion's Bride", "Mrs. Rip Van Winkle", "Mrs. Icarus", "Frau Freud", "Salome", "Eurydice", "The Kray Sisters", "Elvis's Twin Sister", "Pope Joan", "Penelope", "Mrs. Beast", "Demeter"