My Last Duchess Browning’s use of dramatic irony can be seen in the dramatic monologue of the Duke. The Duke views himself as a powerful person with “a nine-hundred-years-old name” while the reader views him as possessive. His tone is very possessive and haughty as he talks about how disgusted he was with the Duchess. The diction makes the Duke sound like he begins to rush what he says about the Duchess as he thinks more about her. His sentences are moving along as his train of thought goes on
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[pic] You know‚ everyone nowadays has a cell phone. It’s like their lives orbit around that rectangular piece of steel...and it’s not even a sphere! I can’t disagree though…I’m one of those people that just can’t part with their phone. Every few minutes I’ll be checking my phone. (Mimes checking phone) Oh look! I have…zero missed calls‚ zero new texts‚ the facebook frontier is quiet… Then I remember I’ve had zero incoming calls‚ zero texts‚ and I have three friends on facebook: mom‚ dad‚ and
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“I heard he was six and a half feet tall.” “Really! I heard he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he can reach!” “No wonder‚ I heard his hands were always blood stained! You know what they say once you ate a raw animal the blood will never wash off.” “Well‚ that’s Boo Radley for ya!” *laughs heard from gossip people* The name’s Arthur Radley‚ but for some reason most people know me as “Boo Radley”. I’ve always pondered why the folks call me that‚ do they think of me as some sort of a monster
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Everything was okay! (screams‚ hands in hair) I remember when we would dance around here‚ the girls‚ Abigail and I. When the days passed by‚ weeks at a time. (spinning around‚ arms in the air) When we spent hour after hour laughing‚ singing‚ dancing. I miss it. I miss everything. The smiles on everyone’s faces‚ the warm air filling our lungs. (breathes in and out deeply‚ raising arms) It was the only ‘voice’ (air quotes) we had most of the time and it often seemed like the only fun‚ us girls could
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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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My Last Duchess When a man cares more about his status and image than his wife‚ he may feel the need to take drastic measures to ensure that he is always the center of attention. Robert Browning’s dramatic monologue “My Last Duchess” paints a picture of a duke who is trying to escape from his past‚ by proving to himself that he has power over his deceased wife.During the poem‚ the duke shows a painting of the last duchess to a representative from the Count‚ who is there making arrangements for the
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Although the poem was publicized in 1863 it was not until it was published in a magazine that it was named “Porphyria’s Lover”. A similar poem that Browning wrote was “ My Last Dutchess” which had a similar plot. It goes to show that most of Browning’s monologue is based on some sort of disturbed theme‚ which makes one
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“My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning‚ a dramatic monologue poem which explains the thoughts through the Duke point of view. Yet the speaker portraits all these events to one particular person relating to the situation that is drawn out. At the same time the Duke shares the fact that how she was a property of his even after death‚ as he explains the painting of his last Duchess hung behind curtains. The indication of being his property is showing throughout the poem but the beginning stands out as
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stage. At about the same time he began to discover that his real talents lay in taking a single character and allowing him to discover himself to us by revealing more of himself in his speeches than he suspects-the characteristics of the dramatic monologue. The reviews of Paracelsus (1835) had been mostly encouraging‚ but the difficulty and obscurity of his long poem Sordello (1840) turned the critics against him‚ and for many years they continued to complain of obscurity even in his shorter‚ more
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