they can be considered disturbed characters. The play‚ ‘Macbeth’ and poem‚ ‘My Last Duchess’ both show psychological truths and insights into the characters. While the Duke shows himself to be disturbed straight away in the poem‚ Macbeth’s mental deterioration takes place and develops as the play proceeds. ‘Macbeth’ written by William Shakespeare and set in 1050 contains themes of status‚ power and death while ‘My Last Duchess’ by Robert Browning written in 1842 shows how status‚ wealth and the marriage
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Blueprint 1 A Blueprint for Coming of Age Blueprint 2 The short story How I Met my Husband is a story about a fifteen year old girl who has a coming of age experience while working for a doctor and his wife. The author‚ Alice Munro utilizes several literary techniques to convey a very relatable theme‚ that of young idealized romance and the ironies we learn about
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her husband was a social law. This poem‚ “To My Dear and Loving Husband‚” is a loving tribute from Bradstreet to her husband. Certainly‚ in the early American‚ Puritan colonies‚ this work would have been seen as a wife’s duty as well as a lovely gesture. Today‚ however‚ it might well be seen as the babblings of a dependent wife. This was my reaction to the poem when I first read it. The attitudes of our country have changed drastically since the mid-1600s and devotion of a wife to her husband is now
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In Taylor’s poem Huswifery and Bradstreet’s epistle To My Dear and Loving Husband both use metaphors and rhyme scheme to discuss the role of servitude of a wife. Taylor uses both metaphors and rhyme scheme to emphasize his point that just as a wife works to serve her husband‚ god will help those who desire to exalt him. Taylor throughout his poem uses the metaphor of a loom to compare himself to the spinning wheel to demand to God that Taylor be used‚ much like a man would demand his wife to do
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In the short story How I Met My Husband by author Alice Munro‚ the setting takes place in a small country town around the end of WWII. It is easy to tell that Edie feels a little out of place in the Peebles’ house since they are new to the country and are more wealthy than Edie’s family. When Edie was describing her job she says‚ “Mrs. Peebles had an automatic washer and dryer‚ the first I ever saw‚” (Munro 220). This quote shows how not many people were able to afford luxuries like modern day conveniences
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MY LAST MOMENTS WITH MY FATHER In the year 1992‚ Senegal was‚ for the first time‚ the capital of the African football. The African nation football cup was taking place in Dakar and Ziguinchor. Everybody was very exciting to have the best players of the continent in Senegal and it may be the year to win the African cup for the first time. With all that excitement‚ I kind of forgot that my dad was very sick and he too wanted people to forget that he was seriously ill. It began‚ one cold night
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Amontillado” and “My Last Duchess” In “The Cask of Amontillado‚” by Edgar Allan Poe‚ two acquaintances‚ Montresor and Fortunato‚ are related through vengeance and murder. Poe practices deception to produce an appealing character before altering his symbolic tactic to a state of suspense. In the poem‚ “My Last Duchess”‚ by Robert Browning‚ the Duke of Ferrara tells the story of his last Duchess to a mysterious listener. The Duke narrates the poem causing us to wonder why the Duchess is now his “last” Duchess
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A common interpretation of The Last Duchess centers on the idea of the objectification and subjugation of women. We can see that the Duke judges the value of a living woman by referring to the Duchess as "painted on the wall... There she stands as if alive.” He attempts to identify his wife with the painting‚ due to the fact that the Duchess is no longer there‚ physically with him‚ the painting is enough for the Duke and also makes her a lot easier to control. He also refers to the painting of his
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annoyed even on their last day. It’s not my type of life. I won’t pursue fame and fortune so that when my very day comes‚ I will have nothing to worry about and can be relieved in the long run. But I cannot be sure when I will leave this world. If the answer is tomorrow‚ what will I do on the last day of my life? First‚ I will clean up my room. Some people may think that since I am going to die‚ what good will it do me? None‚ actually‚ but it can mean something to me. After living my life‚ I may find
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Patrick Silva AP Lit Period 4 Mr. Schmitz October 11‚ 2012 How I Met My Husband Thesis Paper The theme of Alice Munro’s story “How I met my Husband” is Social expectations mold individual circumstances. Edie‚ a fifteen year old housemaid in the lower class of society has qualities and talents that demonstrate a skill set of aristocracy. "Have a house without pie‚ be ashamed until you die" is a quoted statement that Edie ’s mother used to say to her that Mrs. Peebles was not very familiar
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