Imagery and Symbolism; Symbol Pictorial Zoomorphism (2) Contrasting images Visual (2)

Medusa herself is a symbol for all those women who have been betrayed by men and whose fine and loving natures become distorted and destroyed by their experience "turned the hairs on my head to filthy snakes"; captures the pure transformation into a monster - 'filthy'; she is not only gruesome but stained by his actions Snakes that "hissed and spat" (onomatopoeic); the emotions are controlling her, not the other way around - animal images of snakes, bee, 'singing bird' emphasise her animalistic nature 'bride', whose breath 'soured, stank'; extremity of her change "shattered a bowl of milk" "rolled in a heap of sh*t" (vulgarism); the humour eases the tension, creating a lull before the climax