Nervous‚ I took a steady breath to calm myself. The warm‚ dimly-lit classroom-turned-actors’-lounge was filled with children. These kids however‚ wore oddly assorted costumes completed with makeup-caked faces. A boy in a suit with a flamboyant tie and glasses commented‚ “Do I look shiny?” earning a giggle from the company. A girl dressed in similar clothing stood up‚ tap shoes clacking against the tiled floor‚ and‚ pulling the boy aside she announced‚ “Stop Len! We need to head onstage.” The actors
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It is under much strain that I withhold the flood of tears behind my eyes. For if the levy bursts‚ I fear I may meet a fate much like dear Ophelia. My dear Ophelia… my friend‚ my sister… I am aghast by your drowning‚ there was so much more for you in this world‚ you were like a blossoming flower‚ emerging into the light for all to see… and now‚ without even slowly wilting away‚ you are gone‚ and I am alone. Oh God‚ why would you take her and leave me so alone‚ and so soon after our own father’s
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Abigail could no longer take it; two months have gone by without her John. After the arrest of John Proctor‚ Abigail was left with nothing. He was the only reason she was doing all this for‚ but now soon he would be hanged. Reverend Hale already suspected of her; she would be next. In order to save herself she has to leave Salem‚ but she couldn’t go alone‚ Mercy Lewis had to go with her. Abigail convinced Mercy Lewis that if she didn’t go she would soon be arrested and hanged. Between the two of
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My wife‚ Tessie was in the midst of of people who were trying to kill her. I felt so disconsolate! I was in the house‚ trying to forget what had happened‚ but I could still hear her blood-curdling screams for help in my mind. “Papa‚ Papa! We smell something very egregious in the backyard!” opined the children. “Yes‚ I know children‚ I hate to say it but‚ your mother has passed away. Her corpse is buried in the backyard‚” I elucidated in a subdued tone. When I was trying to calm everyone down‚ Billy
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Dear Fleance‚ I wrote this letter when you were born‚ and if your reading it now then I know my actions got the best of me. I know sooner or later it would happen to me. I was brutally murdered. Now son I don’t want you to get upset. We both know my death was for the best for the both of us. My son‚ I want you to take my pass expierences and learn from them. Take yur undertsandings from my life and secure your safety. I treid setting the right set of morals for you. Even if my death has angered
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This was never a part of the plan. I did not know that this would be the way that I would feel. All I wanted was the best for my noble lord. We were just supposed to kill Duncan then we could have gotten what we desired for so long… freedom‚ power‚ Macbeth for king. Duncan’s death was not for us the tragedy I made out. I feel inside a boiling up of horrors‚ which I cannot escape from. For no longer can I endure the visions of my mind. I can no longer live knowing I was responsible for our king being
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victims that fall under Macbeth’s dramatic role reversal throughout the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Every person has good side along with a bad side‚ and the reader can too interpret the protagonist as a dynamic character‚ from being patriotic to becoming tyrannical. This is shown progressively throughout the story‚ first with Macbeth being loyal to the king by refusing to kill him‚ then becoming ambitious with evil thoughts as he is influenced by Lady Macbeth‚ and finally being overwhelmed
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‘Porphyria’s Lover’ by Robert Browning As A Dramatic Monologue: Dramatic Monologue: The Dramatic Monologue was a popular form of poetry in Robert Browning’s time. It is a form of writing in which the speaker in the poem is a dramatized imaginary character. The monologue is cast in the form of a speech addressed to a silent listener. Its aim is character study or psycho-analysi. In a dramatic monologue‚ the person who speaks is made to reveal himself and the motives that impelled him at some crisis
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Lady Macbeth Mad Monologue What knowledge is there now that I can be innocent of? Innocent‚ the eyes of one who sees the corpse of a King‚ smoothly hacked at like a piece of meat by a well-practiced butcher‚ knowing that it was those eyes‚ my eyes‚ that watched the traitorous act come to pass. How can these little hands ever be clean of guilt‚ when they are covered in the blood they smothered‚ still warm‚ upon the sleeping innocents. I held the very dagger that slashed life to shreds‚ daggers
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Robert Browning was an English poet whose mastery of dramatic verse‚ especially dramatic monologues‚ made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. “My Last Duchess” is one of his best known dramatic monologues in which the speaker reveals his character to a silent listener. This poem is loosely based on historical events involving Alfonso‚ the Duke of Ferrara‚ who lived in the 16th century. The Duke is the speaker of the poem. He tells us he is entertaining a representative who has come to settle
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