What I Learned Since I Stopped Worrying and Studied the Movie: A Teaching Guide to Stanley Kubrick ’s Dr. Strangelove Dan Lindley‚ University of Notre Dame ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dan Lindley is assistant professor in international relations and security studies at the University of Notre Dame. Lindley worked for several arms control and research organizations in Washington‚ D.C. before receiving a Ph.D. from MIT. Lindley has published and spoken on U.N. peacekeeping‚ internal conflict‚ the Cyprus
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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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Comparison of the use of a dramatic monologue. In ’Porphyria’s Lover’ and ’My Last Duchess’‚ Browning uses several features of dramatic monologue in order to engage and sustain the interest of the audience. This style of monologue is spoken by a character‚ which is not the poet‚ and is usually projected at a critical moment‚ as in the case of ’My Last Duchess’ and ’Porphyria’s Lover’. The speakers unintentionally reveal their insanity‚ in both poems‚ through their separate accounts. By studying
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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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device that causes surprise and amusement for the audience also a helper to the author to make their writing more fluid. Types of irony in stories are dramatic‚ situational and verbal. In the short stories “The Censors” by Luisa Valenzuela‚ “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant and “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl‚ there is situational and dramatic irony. The ironies affect the main characters carrying their stories out interestingly. In the short story “The Censors” there is situational
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Compare how language and layout are used for effect in ‘Two scavengers in a truck‚ two beautiful people in a Mercedes’ with the ways language and layout are used for effect in one other poem. Two poems that use language and layout for effect are‚ ‘Two scavengers in a truck‚ two beautiful people in a Mercedes’ by Lawrence Ferlinghetti‚ and ‘Blessing’ by Imtiaz Dharker. Both poems were set in very different places and with different cultures. ‘Two Scavengers’ was set in America in the 1950s where
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Dramatic Irony in Oedipus Rex In Oedipus Rex‚ by Sophocles‚ there are several instances of dramatic irony. Not only does this irony give the plot a rounder shape‚ but it helps the audience understand‚ or follow along‚ the plot better. Dramatic irony is sometimes used to intensify a scene or act. By doing this‚ the plot of the story‚ or play‚ is made more interesting. One example is Oedipus taunting Teiresias for his blindness‚ both physical and stellar. He says‚ "You sightless‚ witless‚ senseless
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Plot: - Amir‚ the protagonist‚ is an adult living in the United States and recalling on his childhood in Kabul‚ Afghanistan. He used to live in a fairly luxurious residence with his father‚ whom he called Baba‚ and their servants‚ Ali and Hassan. - Ali and Hassan were Hazaras‚ an ethnic minority‚ which means they do not have the same status as Amir and Baba. - Both Hassan and Amir have lost their mothers. They have only their fathers and each other. Amir’s mother died giving birth to him‚ and
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ourselves why? We never know to what extent technology can be used; surveillance‚ gathering information‚ maybe even a tracker. We don’t ask the most essential questions‚ who’s to say we aren’t already being “watched”. George Orwell‚ the writer of the novel 1984 thought this way; in the novel technology is used to keep everyone in line to make them obey “big brother” (the government). The Technology described in the novel is like the technology used today‚ we should feel uneasy about this. 1984 is a novel
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According to Mark Flanagan of About.com‚ “Dramatic irony is when the words and actions of the characters of a work of literature have a different meaning for the reader than they do for the characters. This is the result of the reader having a greater knowledge than the characters themselves.” For
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