Term 1 Controlled Assessment – Poetry/Macbeth Task: ‘Explore the ways a disturbed character is presented in Browning’s Monologues and ‘Macbeth’’ Focus: Reading and close analysis of two from the following poems: Browning’s ‘My Last Duchess’/’The Laboratory’/ ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ Planning of controlled assessment for the poetry section Begin reading ‘Macbeth’. See Half Term 2. Half Term 3 Controlled Assessment – Creative Writing – Re-creations Task: ‘Write a monologue for a character from a literary
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4 July 2011 Essay #2 Porphyria’s Lover Paranoia There are many physical and mental diseases Americans encounter each day. Some sickness is more serious than other. One mental disorder is paranoia. Paranoia is when the patient becomes a prey to premature delusion. The disease the cause of delusion is internal‚ and not hallucination is involved. The main symptom is permanent delusion. In paranoia the symptoms of delusion appear gradually‚ and the patient is sentimental‚ irritable‚ suspicious‚ depressed
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Compare the ways mood is presented in ‘The Laboratory’‚ ‘My Last Duchess’‚ ‘Hitcher’ and ‘Salome’. Mood is a state of feeling stimulated by a particular apparatus or situation. It can also be a distinct emotional characteristics/ theme of a particular item. Mood is reflected in the four poems by the different poets utilising various devices and techniques such as the diction‚ language‚ alliteration etc‚ in order to display a certain message to the audience. The poem ‘Hitcher’ refers to the environment
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Porphyria’s Lover is a typical dramatic monologue by Browning‚ where we get an insight into the narrator’s thoughts. In the poem‚ we get an insight into the thoughts of a man who kills his love interest out of jealousy: “Nor could to-night’s gay feast restrain.” This gives the impression of Porphyria living a very high status life‚ just coming from a party‚ and the narrator being her love interest that she is sneaking away from her life to see. On the other hand‚ Porphyria’s death could have been
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Robert Browning starts the poem Porphyria’s lover by describing a storm using personification‚ he uses words such as ‘sullen’ and ‘spite’ which suggests the weather is bad on purpose‚ the misery of the weather could be reflecting the mood of the speaker‚ we can begin to suss that something bad is going to happen as this is often the stereotypical weather for suspicious behaviour and murder stories. Browning hints that the unnamed speaker may not be mentally stable‚ ‘I listened with heart fit to break’
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Examine the treatment of women in Porphyria’s lover It would be easy to assume that women in Victorian England were treated badly. However‚ “Porphyria’s lover” suggests that his idea springs from society’s control of women. At the start of the poem‚ Porphyria has freedom and control but as the piece progresses‚ it is clear that this freedom and control is curtailed by her lover who contains and incarcerates her through death. As a result it can be argued that Browning’s purpose was to warn women
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Setting and Background The setting of "My Last Duchess‚" a highly acclaimed 1842 poem by Robert Browning‚ is the palace of the Duke of Ferrara on a day in October 1564. Ferrara is in northern Italy‚ between Bologna and Padua‚ on a branch of the Po River. The city was the seat of an important principality ruled by the House of Este from 1208 to 1598. The Este family constructed an imposing castle in Ferrara beginning in 1385 and‚ over the years‚ made Ferrara an important center of arts and learning
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The lovers in Last Duchess by Robert Browning and also Porphyria’s Lover have many similarities and differences that change the stories to make them more creative. The story of Last Duchess by Browning is about how a man talks about his last wife and why she isn’t here anymore. While Porphyria’s Lover by Browning tells the story of how a man kills his lover with her own hair. In both of these stories they explain the mental instability of the two lovers who see and only become jealous. Then there
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poem “Porphyria’s Lover” to express the hidden depths of the speaker’s mind while still leaving
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relationships presented in ‘My Last Duchess’ and one other poem of your choice? Firstly‚ the presentation in ‘My Last Duchess’ is a relationship that has no equality between the Duke and the Duchess. This is shown through the title of the poem. The word ‘my’ is a possessive pronoun and it connotes with the fact that someone has ownership over something else; in this case the Duke has ownership over the Duchess. The Duke is objectifying the Duchess and the word after is ‘last’ this suggests that the
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