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From The Sea Golden Rule
762 wordsThroughout Odysseus' many adventures in his efforts to return home to Ithaca, Homer describes many various cultures that his title character meets along the way. Though many of these cultures could be identified as subcultures of the Greek world, each has unique qualities that separate it from the other cultures. Chief among these qualities is the set of values and morals that serve to define a culture's viewpoint toward life. This is no different in regards to the Phaeacian society on whose lan...
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Journey Into Night Final Act
1,209 wordsIt is understandable that so many people in our class did not find the last act of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night a satisfying one; there is no tidy ending, no goodbye kisses or murder confessions; none of the characters leave the stage with flowers in their hands or with smiles on their faces and none of the characters give explanatory monologues after the curtain falls, as we " ve become accustomed to by reading so much Shakespeare. O'Neill, though, isn't Shakespeare and Long D...
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Sight Sound Stillness Motion Noise Stillness Motion Noise Play
1,089 words"Drama is not made up of words alone, but sights and sounds, stillness and motion, noise and silence. " While this quotation is relevant to all areas of drama, it is particularly pertinent in absurdist theatre and is important in the construction of Harold Pinter's, The Caretaker. Through these conventions, sight, sound, stillness, motion, noise and silence, the idea of a random and lonely world is portrayed. The notion that we are born alone and die alone and fortuitous, unrelated events happen...
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Makes The Play Dont Care
666 wordsBennett makes us want to ask many questions. It is such a silly thing to have done. This makes us want to know what she has done, and what is silly. Bennett uses everyday experiences. I should never have tried to dust. This is good, as nowadays people can relate to the quotation. Doris is an interesting character, she is old. Doris is in her seventies. The means she can tell us all about the 20 th century. Bennetts play A Cream Cracker Under The Settee. (A Cream Cracker) is a monologue. Monologu...
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Context Of The Story Good Hands
554 wordsThe Epilogue of the Tempest by William Shakespeare is an excellent-if not the best-example of Shakespeare's brilliance. In 20 lines Shakespeare is able to write an excellent ending to his play, while speaking through his characters about Shakespeare's own life and career. Even more amazingly, he seamlessly ties the two together. In the context of the story Prospero's monologue makes perfect sense. He has lost his magical power, so his "charms are o'er thrown, and what strength [Prospero] have's ...
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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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Porphyrias Lover Dramatic Monologue
1,099 wordster> Compare the two poems Porphyrias Lover and My Last Duchess by Robert Browning. What do they reveal about attitudes to women and relationships in the nineteenth century? Robert Browning was one of the greatest poets of the nineteenth century. In 1842, he published Dramatic Lyrics which included the two poems Porphyrias Lover and My Last Duchess. In Porphyrias Lover Browning gives the reader a dramatic insight into the twisted mind of an abnormally possessive lover, who wishes the m...
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Duke Of Ferrara Fra Pandolf
812 wordsRobert Brownings My Last Duchess begins appropriately with a literary deception. The title suggests that the poem is about the Duke of Ferrara's former wife. However, after second and later readings, it becomes apparent that the subtitle Ferrara truly depicts what the poem is really about, for we learn more about the Duke of Ferrara than we learn about the Duchess. As the Duke talks about the Duchess, he really reveals his own controlling characteristics. This irony is significant, because it se...
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Section Of The Poem Make The Decision
1,373 wordsBrilliant poets surface many times by creating their individual styles of writing. They obtain their glory from their crafted masterpieces designed in ways like no other. Such is the case of Robert Browning and his dramatic monologue. Starting with Porphyrias Lover, he went on to perfect this form authoring many famous works in the process. This poem, once a collection under the title, The Madhouse Cells, depicts an unhealthy affair from a madman's perspective. In Robert Brownings dramatic monol...
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Magical Realism Dramatic Monologue
702 wordsAs the centuries pass, people seem to have more courage to express themselves in unique and innovative ways through their own medium of representation. In modern poetry specifically, we see writers who are bending the rules of traditional form, presentation, and subject matter. A new era in our civilization calls for new poets who are not frightened to be different. Gary Soto, a Mexican-American, has the courage to express the struggle his people have had in the southwest through his mystical wr...
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Influence Of British Romanticism On Literature
1,107 words... the way for new thoughts and impressions that changed literature, religion, and the whole British society forever. It was from the works of these writers that four major themes of Romanticism emerged, greatly influencing religion and philosophy. The first of these themes is Libertarianism which preceded Romanticism. While Romanticism embraced the idea for freedom of the mind and a concentration on nature, Libertarianism was focused on nature alone. The Romantic movement greatly endangered Li...
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Literary Devices Figurative Language
698 wordsThroughout the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Douglass constantly used system, figurative language, and selection of detail to strengthen his viewpoint of slavery, particularly in the 3 rd paragraph. In addition to the use of these literary techniques throughout the autobiography, Douglass also incorporated the use of parallel structure and repetition heavily in the body of the 3 rd paragraph. By doing this Douglass was able to portray his true feelings towards sl...
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Godot Is God Vladimir And Estragon Pozzo
860 wordsOne of the most ambiguous aspects of Beckett's play is the identity of Godot. If the reader analyzes all the Biblical allusions, it is quite easy to say that Godot is God. (Actually, the word Godot can be anagram med to say 'To God, ' but it is questionable whether this is mere coincidence or has some significance. ) The interpretation, then, would be of two men (mankind as a whole) waiting for something (salvation or proof) that will never come. (Every day, a messenger says that Godot will come...
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One Of The Reasons Hamlets Speeches Hamlet
299 wordsCertainly one of the reasons tha twe read Hamlets speeches with interest is because we relate it to our own Spiritual region. It is common for most of us to search on a surface without trying to understand the depth of a character. Hamlet is a very complex character and that is one of the reasons why he is a very interesting subject fo r psychological analysis. Reading Hamlet through the play of our imagination we become aware of something very personal and sometimes hidden in unconsciousness. P...
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Valediction Forbidding Mourning Dante Alighieri
1,676 wordsJohn Donne's A Valediction Forbidding Mourning At the beginning of A Valediction Forbidding Mourning the poet, John Donne, engages in a didactic lesson to show the parallel between a positive way to meet death and a positive way to separate from a lover. When a virtuous man dies, he whispers for his soul to go while others await his parting. Such a man sets an example for lovers. The separation of the soul from the body, and the separation of lovers from each other, is not an ending but the begi...
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Browning Dramatic Monologue
1,054 wordsRobert Browning, an English poet, was born May 7, 1812, to Robert browning Sr. , Sarah Anna Wiedmann Browning. Sarah Browning, from German-Scottish descent, was a musician, a lover of nature, and a devout evangelical Christian. She was the stronger of the two parents, and also guided Robert through his developmental stages. Mrs. Browning was a woman of common sense and stability. Browning? s sister Sarianna, who was born in 1814, inherited his mothers? qualities. Browning? s father was employed ...
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Porphyrias Lover Dramatic Monologue
709 wordsThis Porphyrias Lover Porphyrias Lover This poem demonstrates several of Robert Brownings defining characteristics as a poet. It contains his criticism towards the beliefs and practices of self-restraint and his traditional use of dramatic monologue to expose a single characters personality, which in turn often provides an additional depth to his works in coordination with his use of unpoetic language. Also taking into account the authors own personal experiences with his wife, the poem can also...
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Good Hands Shakespeare Prospero
391 wordsProspero s epilogue at the conclusion of The Tempest provides interesting parallels to its author s life. Written near the end of his career, numerous scholars suggest that it is Shakespeare s written farewell. Just as Shakespeare sculpts a world from nothing, Prospero authors the events on the island. Prospero s monologue flows naturally with they story and provides a natural ending to the work. He describes the loss of his magical power at the beginning of his monologue when he says, My charms...
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Men And Women Dramatic Monologue
1,204 wordsRobert Browning was born on May 7, 1812, in Camberwell, which is now a part of London. He had no real formal education so he was largely self educated. His father was a smart man with an extensive library. His mother was kindly, religious minded woman, who loved music and her brilliant son. He lived at his parents house almost until the time of his marriage. He attended a boarding school near Camberwell and spent a little bit of his time traveling to places like Russia and Italy. But he preferre...
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Lines Of The Poem Dramatic Monologue
1,035 wordsDuring the twentieth century there were poets who revolutionized poetry such as T. S. Elliot and Ernest Hemingway. Of all the American poets in the twentieth century, there was not a poet that was more popular or established then Robert Frost. Robert Frost was the most influential poet in the twentieth century because of his use of lyrics and metaphors in his poems. Robert Frost overcame many hardships and tragedies in his life to write some of Americas best-loved poems. In Robert Frosts Mending...
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