It’s not like I enjoy being around the Prince all the time. It’s something I have to do. Coming from a family with next to nothing I had to find a way out. This was my only option. Prince Prospero is a foolish man‚ but he has money. He can help me make a better life for my family. I swore to myself I would do anything for that money. If I can’t get it the easy way‚ I’ll just simply have to kill him and collect the money as my inheritance. When Prospero took my hand at the table I thought all that
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Ollie McGee Have you seen walking through the village A Man with downcast eyes and haggard face? That is my husband who‚ by secret cruelty Never to be told‚ robbed me of my youth and my beauty; Till at last‚ wrinkled and with yellow teeth‚ And with broken pride and shameful humility‚ I sank into the grave. But what think you gnaws at my husband’s heart? The face of what I was‚ the face of what
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human violence and sin in “Macbeth” and the dramatic monologues of Robert Browning Weakness and fatal flaws in literature reflect human nature. This means the reader can relate to the main character. In the two dramatic monologues by Robert Browning and in the play‚ ‘Macbeth’‚ each protagonist has a fatal flaw which is made evident in the first few scenes or stanzas of the narrative. Macbeth is motivated by ambition whilst in the Robert Browning’s monologues; the narrators are driven by the arrogance
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Choice 1 JIMMY I need detention. I really need detention. See‚ there’s this girl... I know‚ I know‚ it always starts with a girl ... But this girl is special... I mean it this time... Really special. Her name is Harmony... But she goes my Harm. Cute huh? She can harm me any time she wants. And she has too. A couple of times. But I deserved it... Cause I touched her once. I didn’t touch her anywhere bad. Just on the shoulder. And she broke my finger. So I guess we kind of have held hands. I was just
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Voices of Dramatic Monologues - A Poetry Comparison Nearly all of Rita Dove’s poetry deals with aspects of history. Shakespeare‚ Boccaccio‚ and Dove’s grandparents are topics of her poetry. Dove puts a light on the small truths of life that have more meaning than the actual historical facts. In a time when African-American poetry has been criticized for too much introspection‚ Rita Dove has taken an approach to emotion and the person as human. Dove’s poetry is not about being black‚ but
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Like Dreaming‚ Backwards By Kellie Powell Like Dreaming‚ Backwards is a series of monologues and scenes about the suicide of a young college student named Nell. The play also includes monologues from Nell ’s mother‚ Leah‚ a acquaintance‚ Yale‚ and her friend‚ Natalie. For further information and advice on performing this monologue‚ read this note from the playwright. NELL: Have you ever had a dream and suddenly‚ you realize what ’s happening doesn ’t make any sense - and you realize that you
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The Dramatic Monologue is a type of a lyric poem. It was developed in the Victorian period. Robert Browning is said to have perfected the Dramatic Monologue‚ with poems such as My Last Duchess‚ and Soliloquy of a Spanish Cloister. As its name states‚ it is a monologue‚ hence it is a speech uttered by a single person. In its fullest form‚ the dramatic monologue has three salient features Firstly‚ a single person who is patently not the poet‚ utters the speech that makes up the whole of a poem‚ in
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Tituba’s Monologue [Sitting down‚ eyes closed and hands gathered‚ praying] "Dear heavenly father‚ I bow my head down to you now‚ asking you for your forgiveness. I have committed a grave sin even resulting in someone being executed. I wronged you father and I shouldn’t have confessed to having connections with the devil. [Stand up] Who knows now what the results would have been if I was honest and kept to your name until the end. The beatings and all of Mr Hale’s questions were just too much
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Trace the development of dramatic tension in this scene from the apparently innocuous conversation around the meal table to the closing tableau of the chair lifting episode which concludes the act This scene is the last in act one and is an important scene for building up drama and tension between the characters. Even the positioning of the scene helps the drama‚ by putting it at the end of act 1‚ where in the theatre there would be an interval‚ it leaves the audience with a cliff
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You must not turn around. You must not look back. I know that I must not disobey this simple request. Yet‚ I cannot stop my mind from running untamed. I now listen closely for Eurydice’s footfall behind me‚ but her shade makes no sound. Could I have been tricked by Hades and his cold Queen Persephone? Did Eurydice fall behind? Questions of mistrust and other morbid thoughts seem to close in on my brain. I desperately yearn to see her with all of my essence. Yet‚ the words of Hades seem to echo. You
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