Under The Settee is a dramatic monologue written by Alan Bennett in 1987 for television‚ as part of his Talking Heads series for the BBC. In A Cream Cracker Under the Settee Alan Bennett has addressed the issue of elderly people in our society and how they are treated by others. It revolves 75-year old Doris on an ordinary day in her house. The play begins after her fall from the buffet and her reflecting on the events that led up to it. The reason the writer uses a monologue is to emphasis to the
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him down into his family’s vaults to go try some Amontillado. Then he traps Fortunato in the crypt to kill him. In this short story‚ Poe uses dramatic irony to inform the reader of things the character is unaware of in order to create a suspense. Poe uses dramatic irony in this story to show Montresor’s false concern for Fortunato. One example of dramatic irony in the story is when Montresor expresses concern about Fortunato’s health. As they were walking through the catacombs to the Amontillado
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uncomfortable too here or say on a regular basis‚ ready? Love. Hate. Rape. Abuse. Molestation. Homosexuality. Clitoris. Penis. Vagina. All of these words play a major role in the Vagina Monologues. Although you may think that simply the title itself may be far too vulgar for your liking‚ the Vagina Monologues is a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. In this stunning phenomenon that has swept the nation‚ Eve Ensler gives us real women’s stories of intimacy‚ vulnerability
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Dramatic irony plays a large role in Othello; it is most prominent in Iago’s lines. It is specifically seen when Iago outright lies to characters‚ when he misrepresents his personality to other people‚ and when other characters talk about Iago in a way he is not. Iago constantly tells other characters slight untruths or outright lies. His constant use of lying puts the audience on edge because they always know when he has lied. One of his major lies is when he tells Othello that his wife‚ Desdemona
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“The Possibility of Evil”‚ is a story written by Shirley Jackson‚ which includes many examples of irony within the short story. It contains three types of irony. They include Dramatic‚ Verbal‚ and Situational Irony. The definition of irony as a whole is language which usually means the opposite for a humorous or emphatic effect. It can be when the reader knows more than the characters‚ a person says something and they really mean the opposite‚ or the story goes another way than intended. All of these
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In the classic Greek play Oedipus‚ the King‚ written by Sophocles‚ he writes with dramatic irony to create suspense as you read along. By adding parts of the play that prove that the readers know more than the characters themselves do. For instance‚ when Oedipus gathered the townspeople of Thebes around and commanded them to give up the murder of Laius. Oedipus cursed the murderer (himself) saying “Upon the murderer i invoke this curse: may he live out his life in misery to miserable doom!” With
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some basement‚ in case of these kinds of situations? (Pause) Situations like what? How on earth would anyone have thought that someone would try to go down here knowing the door is broken and the lights are out. Well‚ now they have an excellent example. Oh my God‚ this is not happening! Not really! It just can’t be happening! (Breathes heavily) All right ‚ just calm down. Just don’t look down there‚ because there is absolutely nothing to see. Oh my God‚ of course there isn’t! Because you simply
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Question : What is a dramatic monologue? Which of the two‚ in your opinion‚ is the stronger dramatic monologue in Tennyson’s “Ulysses” or Browning’s “My Last Duchess”? Answer : Traditionally dramatic monologue is a lyrical poem in the form of speech spoken by a single man. It is dramatic because it begins abruptly and in the development of its thought it takes several sudden turns which impart dramatic dimension to the poem. In a dramatic monologue the single speaker reveals his thoughts in the
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What happened to you? She had a very bad car accident... in Mozambique. But... we’re grateful she’s alive. - What truth? - You tell me. What’s the possibility that you had an accident in Botswana... and Charity had an accident in Mozambique at the exact same time? Whatever affects their marriage‚ affects us. - And this will destroy everything. - What will destroy everything? I know that right now... it seems as if we’ll never get out of this mess... but we will. We just have to hang
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I thought about what I told Ponyboy. I told him that I would not fight in the rumble tonight. I had said that I do not like to fight any more. Because I saw Johnny killed Bob. I told him that Johnny was the one who killed Bob. Ponyboy inform me that Johnny did it because Bob was drowning me Ponyboy said. Then Ponyboy got up and left my car then went to Two-Bit. Then I turn around and wish that Ponyboy does not go to the rumble. The next day I went to Ponyboy house to talk him to notify that tomorrow
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