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Men And Women Russian Society
1,501 words... at will be written off as a valiant effort as he fought for his country. He dies an unhappy and barren man. The double-edged sword of Russian society claimed two more victims. Russia in the eighteen hundreds was filled with social gatherings and gossip. Yes, it may sound stereotypical, but work was not a major part of life for the socialites. A woman's goal was to marry well, have children, and live a convenient life. Much like this, a man wanted to be rich so that he could marry a beautiful...
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A Cream Cracker Under The Settee
1,140 wordsHow does Alan Bennett reveal Doris character, life and attitude in the dramatic monologue a cream cracker under the settee? Many of Bennett's characters are unfortunate and downtrodden, as in the Talking Heads series of monologues that was first performed at the Comedy Theatre in London in 1992, and then transferred to television. This was a sextet of poignantly comic pieces, each of which portrayed several stages in the character's decline from their initial state of denial or ignorance of thei...
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Lay Dying Dewey Dell
1,221 wordsThe action of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying is simple: Addie Bundren dies; and in answer to her wishes, the body is taken for burial to Jefferson, some forty miles away. But the weather intervenes, and floodwaters require that the cortege take detours. Some nine days pass before the coffin, which before long clearly announces its passing to neighboring places, is finally laid to rest. These days involve battling flood water and a fire set by one of the children, the threat of buzzards, the h...
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Order To Make Physical Actions
1,857 wordster> As an actor using Stanislavski's system, how would you use his ideas on imagination, units and objectives and emotion memory in the preparation of a role? Stanislavski's principle theory of acting was that of psychological realism. In other words, acting should be an art that teaches an actor how to consciously produce natural action; it must teach the actor how to awaken consciously her subconscious creative self for its super conscious organic creativeness, and how to consciousl...
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Duke Of Ferrara Dramatic Monologue
705 wordsIn My Last Duchess by Robert Browning, the reader is introduced to the dramatic monologue. A dramatic monologue is a speech in the speaker unknowingly reveals his personality. In this poem, the audience listens to a monologue of the Duke of Ferrara (who is soon getting married) in which he sees the portrait of his deceased Duchess and brings up her faults to an unknown envoy only know as sir! (l. 54). Through the Dukes ramblings, it is learned that he is a self-centered, materialistic, proud and...
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Social Isolation Short Skirts
699 wordsQuestion: With close reference to AT LEAST TWO short stories that you have studied, show how the author (s) have used the characters to present insights into the worlds the characters inhabit. Essay Answer: Social isolation in a societal world is an engaging theme explored by many short stories. Janet Frame has successfully done this in her story The Bath and Edith Campion has in Good Morning Wardrobe using similar techniques. The two authors explore social isolation by illustrating each main ch...
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Dramatic Monologue Porphyrias Lover
1,029 wordsThe finest woks of Browning endeavor to explain the mechanics of human psychology. The motions of love, hate, passion, instinct, violence, desire, poverty, violence, and sex and sensuousness are raised from the dead in his poetry with a striking virility and some are even introduced with a remarkable brilliance. Thanks to the changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution, so many people living in such close quarters, poverty, violence, and sex became part of everyday life. The absence of family a...
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Life And Death Killing Claudius
767 words"To Be or Not To Be" The "To Be or Not To Be" speech in the play, "Hamlet, " portrays Hamlet as a very confused man. He is very unsure of himself and often wavers between two extremes. In the monologue, he contemplates death; over whether he should commit suicide or seek revenge for his father's death. The play also shows how Hamlet thinks over things too much. From the analysis over life and death he comes to the conclusion that he would rather live and seek revenge for father's death than die....
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Communicative Activity Aiming Translation Quality However Often Ignores Text
1,874 wordsThe practical circle of translation is very wide. Poetry, fiction, scientific and science fiction books, business documents and letters, the political articles and speeches, newspaper materials and discussions are being translated from one language into another. In all these variety of demands, which are made by some specific task, in all the quality of required knowledge and information there are required two common conditions. First - the aim of the translation is the ability as close as possi...
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First Two Lines Marlowe
1,104 wordsThe truth that ambition and desire for material objects does not always satisfy the soul is a major theme depicted in Christopher Marlowe? s Doctor Faustus. The poem on page 93, lines 96 - 113 is the essence of this theme. It describes Faustus meeting, what he believes, is the icon of perfection. This perfection is a mere human women, yet, to Faustus, she is worth his life. Marlowe? s use of syntax and diction, allusions and references, and other literary devices throughout this monologue give s...
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Holden Caulfield Third Person
895 wordsThe World Through Holden Caulfield s Eyes When writing a novel, the author has the option of using the first or third person narrative. In The Catcher in the Rye, J. K. Salinger creates Holden Caulfield in the first person. As we go from one adventure to the next, we see everything that happens from Holden s point of view. This helps to make him a sympathetic character. Throughout the novel, Holden Caulfield has a constant inner monologue which reflects on everything that s going on in his life....
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Ulysses Harbors Unrepentant Contempt Incredulous Arrogance Ulysses Possesses Reader
2,117 wordsA Hero Among Men, A Man Among Heroes The name Ulysses instantly conjures up images of heroism and adventure. Even modern readers who are less versed in classical literature recognize the larger-than-life character, if not the specific details of this legend. It is with these associations in mind that one approaches the poetic monologue Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Tennyson, however, presents the reader with a man rather than a hero. The Ulysses of his imagination is restless rather than self...
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Resort To Violence Tone Of Voice
572 wordsIn Lesson 19 of the videotape Literary Visions, the actor performs two interpretations of the monologue, To be or not to be. As said in the video, there are many ways that an actor can choose to interpret that particular speech in Hamlet. Many actors relish the opportunity to perform Hamlet, because of that particular speech. In a play, the actors interpretation of the character is what gives the audience the background and insights into the characters feelings, since there is not a narrator, li...
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Dramatic Monologue Browning
955 wordsRobert Browning? s? An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician? is a dramatic monologue in which Karshish writes to Abib about his experiencing the miracle of Jesus, when he raises Lazarus from the dead. ? Karshish? is a dramatic monologue containing most of the tenets of Browning. Although? Karshish? is in the form of a letter, it is still an excellent example of a dramatic monologue. There is a speaker, Karshish, who is not the poet. There is a silent ...
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Fra Pandolf Dramatic Monologue
1,183 wordsMy Last Duchess My Last Duchess by Robert Browning is a dramatic monologue about a duke who is showing the portrait of his first wife, the duchess, to a servant of his future father-in-law, the Count. In a dramatic monologue, the speaker addresses a distinct but silent audience. Through his speech, the speaker unintentionally reveals his own personality. As such, in reading this poem, the reader finds the duke to be self-centered, arrogant, controlling, chauvinistic and a very jealous man. The m...
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Quot Quot Poems Quot
2,226 wordsVictor Strandberg The first three poems of Eleven Poems... inquire anew whether Time the Destroyer does, as they say, render all things meaningless. In " Bearded Oaks, " for example, two lovers " practice for eternity" by lying totally silent and motionless cadavers under the ocean of eternity. Enveloped in " kelp-like" grasses under oaks " subtle and marine, " what else can a thinking man do but contemplate his extinction in submarine " voicelessness...
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J Alfred Prufrock T S Eliot
4,904 wordsJ. Hillis Miller Prufrock's paralysis follows naturally from this subjectivizing of everything. If each consciousness is an opaque sphere, then Prufrock has no hope of being understood by others. " No experience, " says Bradley in a phrase Eliot quotes, " can lie open to inspection from outside" (KE, 203). Prufrock's vision is incommunicable, and whatever he says to the lady will be answered by, " That is not what I meant at all. /That is not it, at all" (CP, 6). Th...
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J Alfred Prufrock T S Eliot
1,557 wordsOn The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock In The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T. S. Eliot reveals the thoughts and feelings of the poem? s subject, Prufrock, in a way that Prufrock could not have articulated himself, since it is the poem? s objective to illustrate Prufrock? s insecurity. By not commenting directly and allowing the reader to draw conclusions from clues given in dramatic monologue, Eliot adds meaning and rewards the reader. His use of an epigraph heightens the reward and demonstr...
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Early Twentieth Century Quot And Quot
2,286 words[Currently, " The Waltz" is probably Parkers best known and most frequently anthologized short story. Two female voices, an external compliant one, and an internal critical one, construct the tale of a couples dance. The story also generates the most critical and scholarly attention as well as differences of opinion. Below are brief excerpts from the critical discussion surrounding this story presented chronologically. They are designed to give you not only a taste of the variety of re...
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Duke Of Ferrara Dramatic Monologue
735 wordsSusan Ferrell July 29, 1998 Portrait of a Murderer An Analysis of the Duke in Robert Browning s, My Last Duchess Robert Browning s poem, My Last Duchess is probably his most famous dramatic monologue and is an excellent example of this form of poetry (Landow). Dramatic monologue is a one-sided literary composition in which the speaker gradually reveals his character (Browning). The speaker in this poem is the duke of Ferrara, who is addressing a second character, an agent of a count whose daught...
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