A Few Thoughts on the Dramatic Monologue A dramatic monologue is a poem written in the voice of a specific‚ definite character who is not the poet: the speaker is a persona‚ a mask. It’s a monologue because it has only one speaker‚ though there is sometimes (as in Browning’s “My Last Duchess”) a silent interlocutor whose unheard (or unread) responses help shape the speaker’s discourse and the meaning of the poem. (In such poems addressed to a specific listener‚ though only one person speaks‚ both
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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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Temkai Clark Play Response (Tartuffe) The Greatest Victim of Deception is the Deceiver I had the chance to go Tartuffe a few Saturdays ago‚ (March23)‚ and it was a pleasant surprise to say the least. The plot begins with a clear division in the household and Tartuffe is the divider. He is a Guest who preys on Orgon’s(Head of Household) and Orgon’s Mother ‘s hospitality‚ with the purpose of seducing Elmire (Orgon’s Wife) and spoiling Valere (Orgon’s would be Son-in-law) and Mariane’s (Orgon’s
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William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet‚ dramatic irony‚ suspense‚ and tragedy are the main literary terms that contribute to making this play so comical. I really liked the dramatic irony‚ because it has its own kind of comedy. This play also teaches people many different things such suspense and tragedy. It is a very suspenseful because people are waiting to see how the people die. The tragedy is also horrible but in a sick demented way kind of funny. Dramatic irony caught my attention in the way
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Iago ends every act in the play. The soliloquies Iago ends these acts with present him as having power and control in the play and as a result his desires become even more dangerous. His manipulative nature is emphasised by the number of “asides” Iago has throughout Othello such as when he is watching Othello and Desdemona together and says “O you are well tuned now! But I’ll set down the pegs that make this music‚ as honest as I am.” This is an example of the dramatic irony that is used throughout
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and Malvolio’s delusion. In William Shakespeare’s comedic play Twelfth Night‚ there is much emphasis on confusion concerning distinctions between reality and appearance‚ most notably concerning the characters Viola and Malvolio‚ the former causing confusion through disguise and the latter through delusion. This theme is linked with confusion amongst the play’s characters‚ a common theme in Shakespeare’s comedies‚ as well as other dramatic comedies. Shakespeare dealt with cross-dressing in other
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All throughout the play‚ Oedipus the King‚ Sophocles builds the entire story using dramatic irony. Despite Oedipus’s ignorance about who he is‚ Sophocles uses dramatic irony to let the readers know who Oedipus truly is and to hint at what all will take place throughout the entire story. Sophocles uses many different scenes throughout the play that portray dramatic irony. Although‚ the three most important are Oedipus’s curse towards himself‚ Oedipus’s insult to Tiresias‚ and the fortune-teller’s
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Dramatic Irony In Hamlet ; act II‚ scene I of the play; Hamlet finds out that his father was murdered by his own brother. Rather than him dying from a snake bit‚ that everyone else knows of. Hamlet had decided to act crazy and tell no one about what his father told him. His father told him that he wasn’t bite by a snake; Hamlets‚ fathers; brother put poison in his ear and killed him.After his fathers’ death‚ Hamlet didn’t know how to control his emotions. Anguished‚ he laments his father’s death
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DRAMATIC IRONY IN A DOLL’S HOUSE Dramatic irony usually refers to a situation in a play wherein a character’s knowledge is limited‚ and he or she encounters something of greater significance than he or she knows. Throughout the play‚ most of the dramatic irony displayed is between Nora and Helmer‚ with Helmer being the character whose knowledge is limited. Dramatic irony is a device commonly and frequently used by playwrights. Irony arises from a contrast between appearance and reality between what
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In Scene IV of Act I of Shakespeare’s play Macbeth‚ there’s a passage in which the King is speaking with Banquo and Macbeth. They are in the King’s palace‚ commenting about Macbeth becoming Thane of Cawdor. One of the literary resources that Shakespeare constantly uses is irony. In this case‚ he uses dramatic irony‚ in which the audience is aware of a situation that the other characters are not familiar with. In this specific circumstance‚ he uses the irony to build up the character of Macbeth‚ to
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