My Last Duchess Browning’s use of dramatic irony can be seen in the dramatic monologue of the Duke. The Duke views himself as a powerful person with “a nine-hundred-years-old name” while the reader views him as possessive. His tone is very possessive and haughty as he talks about how disgusted he was with the Duchess. The diction makes the Duke sound like he begins to rush what he says about the Duchess as he thinks more about her. His sentences are moving along as his train of thought goes on
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My Happy Husband In life‚ sometimes we meet new people who could change our lives for better or worse. I met my husband in the place that I work and since that day we have become the most inseparable friends in the world. I believed my husband is one of the happiest men alive: he is funny‚ positive‚ inspiring‚ spiritual‚ and friendly. He is a very funny person. All the time he has a positive attitude. He inspired me to be the best. He is a spiritual man. He is a friendly person. All these
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women in their traditional role‚ the death of the women‚ men as inhuman/ uncaring and how the male character feels about the death of his wife/lover. All of these points are shown and used by Robert Browning in the two poems‚ Porphirias Lover and My Last Duchess. In the poem Porphirias Lover presents the relationship between men and women as showing the men being in control. From lines thirty one to thirty three Browning wrote Be sure I looked up at her eyes happy and proud; at least I knew Porphyria
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speaker’s role in a poet’s expression and engagement of readers is essential. It influences a story’s direction‚ the emotions invoked in the reader‚ and how themes are shaped into ideas. Robert Browning’s dramatic monologues Porphyria’s Lover and My Last Duchess contain many thematic similarities‚ despite portraying different scenarios‚ primarily spoken through a possessive and jealous man. In Porphyria’s Lover a man waits in his cottage for Porphyria. Her arrival “shut[s] the cold out and the storm”
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The poem “My Last Duchess” is complex‚ in the sense that many ideas can be developed about the Duke’s personality and action‚ and what they prove about human nature. The Duke reveals his actions throughout the course of the poem‚ and establishes his power over the other characters. By attempting to control his wife‚ the envoy‚ as well as the artists‚ the Duke proves that men in high positions of power abuse that power to achieve their desires. In the beginning of the poem‚ the Duke establishes
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My perfect future husband I am allergic to honey. It gives me a headache. My future husband has to know this. That will bring him one step closer to being perfect. He must also have a head of full of hair and be a foot taller than myself. That really should not be a problem. He also needs to be fit and healthy with a trim body as proof. He must also be very successful at his career whatever that may be as long as he is not policeman‚ a fireman‚ a lawyer‚ an accountant‚ a dentist‚ a surgeon‚ a
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In a society with everlasting change and differences people clash on a prodigious scale. By analyzing the stories: ?The Yellow Wallpaper? written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and ?My Last Duchess? by Robert Browning‚ one can take a look into the soul of mankind and attempt to define its ubiquitous desire for control and the backlash that ensues. ?Notice Neptune‚ though Taming a sea-horse‚ thought a rarity‚ Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!?(Browning‚ p. 53) The Duke?s desire for control
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The Ideal Husband Thesis statement : There are few characteristics of an ideal husband of mine such as loving‚ great personality‚ good looking and career man. A man who is a woman married to is called as husband. I believed that majority of women in this world wishing for an ideal husband to be their life partner‚ so do I. Unfortunately‚ finding those ‘quality man’ these days is not as easy as ABC. Why do I wish for an ideal husband? It is because good qualities in a husband can affect
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My Dreamed Husband Good afternoon everyone present. Today‚ I would like to talk about “My Dreamed Husband”. We all have very high expectations or ideals about our future husbands. It is quite natural to have preconceived ideas about our future husbands. It will indeed‚ be rare to find a husband with all the virtues and qualities that we exalt. Perhaps that is the reason why some relationships that have strong initial potential tend to become sour. It is not wrong to have dreams and fantasies about
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possibly be surprised by its successor‚ the G3. After all‚ we’re ready for it now; expecting great things from it‚ even. Plus‚ with phones of the calibre of the HTC One (M8) and Samsung Galaxy S5 already on the shelves‚ it faces tougher competition than last year’s model. That’s the theory at least - but it’s all rubbish. Because somehow‚ the G3 has surprised us again. It’s surprised us with its pixel-crazy 2K screen‚ with its bezel-less design‚ with its lovely metal-that’s-really-plastic build. And
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