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Flower Girl Stage Directions
1,096 wordsIn the preface Shaw describes the Oxford phonetician Henry Sweet, on whom Professor Higgins is modeled, but warns us that Higgins is not a portrait of Sweet. Shaw says that he wrote the play in order to make the English aware of the importance of phonetics, and he is grateful that the play has been a great success on the stage. He complains that the way English is written has little to do with the way it is pronounced, and he pleads for a new alphabet and a reform in spelling. A heavy late-night...
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Alice In Wonderland Lewis Carroll
1,107 wordsCharles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, is recognized by all as the silly fairy-tale author of stories such as Alice in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass. However, little is known about what drove him to write such obviously fantastic stories. Themes such as nonsense and fantasy, education, drug abuse, racism and prejudice, money, malnutrition and public health are touched upon throughout his works. While only speculation can be offered, it is clear that these ...
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The Representation Of Love Triangle In Chaucer
1,873 wordsThe Representation of the Love Triangle in The Book of Duchess, The House of Fame and The Parliament of Fowls. The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame and The Parliament of Fowls are the first three major works of the poet, Chaucer. Each of these poems is seemingly related to love. One view that reveals itself throughout the three poems is the human ability or inability to balance love on three levels, configured in a triangle as the love of God, man or woman, and country. Romantic or courtly...
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Duke And Duchess Gave The Man Back Sancho
730 wordsIn The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha, Miguel de Cervantes contrasted the way that Sancho P governed his island to the way that the Duke and Duchess governed their land. This theme was developed over the entirety of Part Two. The first reference to government can be seen when the curate and barber visit Don Quixote, who has been at home recuperating for a number of weeks. They all make observations of statecraft and abuses and how they can be remedied or... correcting this abuse, c...
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Elizabethan Audience Main Plot
1,859 wordsDramatic Quality of the Central Scenes in Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe 'Dr Faustus' is considered by many to be a tragic play, in fact, Marlowe himself called it, The Tragic all History of the Life and Death of Dr. Faustus. However, there are several scenes in the middle of the play (scenes 6 to 11) which can be considered to be comical scenes, which do not fit into the stereotype of tragedies of the time. They can be considered to be interesting scenes in their own right, but their overall...
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Son In Law Fra Pandolf
595 wordsA dramatic monologue is a poem in which a single speaker who is not the poet recites the entire poem at a critical moment. The speaker has a listener within the poem, but the reader of the poem is also one of the speakers listeners. In a dramatic monologue, the reader learns about the speaker's character from what the speaker says. Robert Browning is said to have perfected this form of writing. One of his most famous dramatic monologues is "My Last Duchess. " The speaker in the poem is an Italia...
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Three Of Chaucer Poems
693 wordsThree of Chaucer's Poems The most prominent feature that Chaucer's poems Book of the Duchess, Parliament of Fowls, and House of Fame have in common, is narrators reference to the famous ancient motives, as such that suppose to serve as an insight to the overall meaning of his poems. Chaucer's earliest work Book of the Duchess starts with author referring to the Ovidian story of Ceyx and Alcyone. This shows that he was familiar with ancient Roman literature. Ceyx was the king of Tracks. After he ...
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John Of Gaunt Knights Tale
862 wordsChaucer's Use of Courtly Love Chaucer admired and made use of the medieval courtly love romance tradition, although he did not fully buy into it. The courtly love code is based on the woman as the center of attention. The medieval knight suffers greatly for his love, who is often someone elses wife. He will do anything to protect and honor her, remaining faithful at all costs. Adultery and secrecy characterize these relationships. The knight views a woman and experiences true love. The knight fe...
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Gentle Into That Good Night Woods On A Snowy Evening
845 wordsIt is the only experience that everyone is guaranteed. Some do it together and some do it alone; but in the end everyone dies. The inevitability of death has inspired many poets. Whether it is accepted death as in Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost, or a plea for someone not to go as in Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas, or a forced demise as in the poem My Last Duchess by Robert Browning. In each poem the individual poet who penned them perceives death quit...
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World War Ii Benito Mussolini
1,268 wordsWar is a horrific experience made worse by those who try to control it for their own advantage. In Famous Last Words, Timothy Findley creates a world of intrigue as he describes the tales of conspiracy and corruption for world domination. That made World War II far worse than it otherwise would have been. This is shown through the relationships of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Benito Mussolini. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor are prominent people in society, who wa...
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Aristocratic Heritage Duke Duchess
430 wordsMy Last Duchess This is a poem about a story that dated back to the time of aristocracy in Italy. The main character is the abominable Duke of Ferrara. His behavior with people and his wife was detestable. His only concern was his aristocratic heritage, condition that had induced him to act in an arrogant manner. After knowing everything about the Duke, if I were the ambassador, I would make the following report to the Count: In conversation with the Duke, attracted my attention his manners, lan...
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Put Into Hiding Duke Of Ferrara Traits
288 words? Who is the Duke of Ferrara? ? It is more difficult for some to mask their personality traits than others. Even though the Duke of Ferrara, in? My Last Duchess, ? a poem by Robert Browning, attempted to conceal his traits he could still be seen through. In the midst of a party, the duke steps aside for the negotiation of an alliance. The more the duke aims to cover his traits the more apparent they became. The duke did not intend for his arrogance to be shown as much as it was. The poem had an ...
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Dramatic Monologue First Wife
664 wordsMy Last Duchess, by Robert Browning, is an example of a dramatic monologue. A dramatic monologue is a kind of narrative poem in which one character speaks to one or more listeners whose replies are not given in the poem. The Duke is speaking to an envoy about his first wife who is apparently dead. From what he is telling him, one can conclude that he is arrogant, domineering, and very insecure about his relationship. The Duke of Ferrara was a very arrogant man. He did not seem to care about the ...
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Professor Higgins Henry Higgins
720 wordsProfessor Higgins Higgins Higgins Philosophy Professor Higgins is seen throughout Pygmalion as a very rude man. While one may expect a well educated man, such as Higgins, to be a gentleman, he is far from it. Higgins believes that how you treated someone is not important, as long as you treat everyone equally. The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you wer...
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Colonel Pickering Outward Appearance
1,588 wordsHow Does Shaw Use Dramatic Effect To How Does Shaw Use Dramatic Effect To Emphasize The Change In Eliza? The most obvious change in Eliza is her progression from being a flower girl in act 1 to a poised, well spoken lady we see in acts 4 and 5. Shaw describes Eliza as? not at all a romantic figure. Perhaps eighteen, perhaps twenty, hardly older. ? She is loud with a strong cockney accent. Her first words are unintelligible. And to show this Shaw has written it in the phonetic alphabet, to stress...
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Nine Hundred Hundred Years
783 wordsExplication of: My Last Duchess by: Robert Browning This piece of poetry is about an Italian duke who ordered the murder of his wife and is currently showing her portrait to a servant or envoy of his future father-in-law. The duke shows this painting only to select strangers in order to flaunt his prize, and he enjoys telling them the story of why he ordered her death. This portrait is the embodiment of what he believes his wife should be a trophy whose beauty can be admired only under his compl...
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Concept Of Love Porphyrias Lover
524 wordsHowever, the speaker is aware of her passionate attempt to conceal her pride and vanity. Her beauty, pride, and conceit prevent Porphyria from completely loving the speaker. The unnamed speaker realizes that Porphyria cannot make a true commitment to a serious relationship of love. He is overcome by his passion and desire to be her only lover. As the couple embraces one another, the speaker is unable to restrain overwhelming desire to make Porphyria his only lover. He has terrible thoughts about...
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Characters Are Acting Analyze A Poem Duke
559 wordsThere are many things to look at when one tries to analyze a poem. Once he / she knows what the story is about, they could look at the speakers point of view, along with many other things. For Example: setting, language, figures of speech, symbols, atmosphere and mood, characterization, theme and conflicts are just some of the other methods that could be used. Finally, the analyzer should say what the whole poems underlying meaning is. The poem, My Last Duchess, is about a Duke who is describing...
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Henry Higgins Professor Higgins
732 wordsHiggins Philosophy Professor Higgins is seen throughout Pygmalion as a very rude man. While one may expect a well educated man, such as Higgins, to be a gentleman, he is far from it. Higgins believes that how you treated someone is not important, as long as you treat everyone equally. The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there a...
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Point Of View David Copperfield
691 wordsComparing The Use Of Books In Mill Comparing The Use Of Books In Mill On The Floss And David Copperfield Comparing the use of books in Mill on the Floss and David Copperfield In David Copperfield, Dickens employs books and learning to read as a means to demonstrate the irrationality and hatefulness of Mr. Murdstone and his sister. In these scenes, David is obviously quite young and just beginning to conquer the world of letters, which had been an agreeable task at his mothers knee before she rem...
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