The poem "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning is often anthologized as an illustration of dramatic monologue. It initially appeared in the year 1842 in the Dramatic Lyrics of Browning. The verse is written in the 28 rhymed couplets of the iambic pentameter. This verse is loosely supported on historical incidents relating Alfonso‚ the Duke of Ferrara‚ who used to live in 16th century. Theme The central themes are influence‚ power‚ marriage‚ egotism and aristocracy. It is likely to utilize blanket
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Analysis of My Fair Lady The play My Fair Lady‚ written by Alan Jay Lerner in 1956‚ focuses on turning an unsophisticated flower girl into a well brought up lady. Henry Higgins is a professor of languages who is high class and very snobby. Eliza Doolittle is a poor flower girl who dreams of living the high class life. Colonel Pickering‚ a good friend of Professor Higgins‚ makes a wager with Professor Higgins that he can not fool everyone into thinking Eliza is a duchess. Alan Jay Lerner (1918-1986)
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Battle Scars Where there is conflict‚ there are always victims that remain strongly impacted. Every human who has stepped foot on this earth has been victimized by something‚ whether it be painful or pleasant. Arthur Miller’s American tragedy‚ All My Sons‚ deals with the American Dream of material wealth leading to contentment. This drama was written so that every character became a victim of loss in some way or form. The conflict that put these normal‚ everyday citizens into terrible circumstances
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My boy jack is a very powerful movie that really moved me in a way that no other movie has in a long time. When I found out that this is about Rudyard Kipling’s son was based on a real event‚ my reaction to the film were even more sharp. When the movie was finished and the credits started rolling‚ I sat quietly‚ pondering the fear of war and all the sacrifices that come with it. It is indeed breath taking. The cast of the film is very genuine. David Haig‚ whose face looked very familiar to me
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“My Last Duchess” When reading “My Last Duchess” at first it was quite confusing. The narrator doesn’t finish his thoughts at the ending of every line which kept me guessing and trying to piece it all together. After reading it the third time I finally came to understand exactly what he was trying to say. The narrator was a troubled powerful man who was showing off a piece of art to another man‚ but little did he know at first what exactly that painting meant. First‚ I would like to describe a little
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First let me start off by saying that the movie My Cousin Vinny is a classic movie and is a good comedy. With that being said I think this movie did a good job of giving people a little taste of the insight that actually goes into the criminal justice system. Throughout this essay I will be explaining how the way the movie portrayed the Criminal justice system is wrong and right in some cases. Along with that I will put in my two senses on how the situation would or should have been handled in our
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Lighting‚ framing‚ camera angles‚ and music are two elements of film that can evoke strong emotional responses called textual features of film. Many of these features are prevalent in the film Not Without My Daughter. This film is set in the 1980’s during the Iranian Revolution. The Mahmoody family consists of husband and wife‚ Moody and Betty‚ and their daughter‚ Mahtob‚ who decide to visit Iran. In Iran‚ Moody decides to keep his family but Betty does not want to stay. Betty tries to escape multiple
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All My Sons is about how we deal with the pressures that are put on us by family and society. Miller dramatizes this in Keller’s and Chris’s different views about personal and social responsibility. Keller believes that he is only answerable to his family and that his war crimes ought to be excused because he did it to save his family from ruin. Chris‚ on the other hand‚ believes in social responsibility - that we must care about society and that we are responsible for the well-being of all members
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Death of Mr. Shimerda The immigrants faced many hardships when they came to America. The longing for their old lifestyles and having the language barrier often place them at high risk of committing suicide. In My Antonia‚ by Willa Cather‚ Mr. Shimerda was one of those unfortunate people. Many circumstances had led to his death‚ which had tremendous effect on his family and people around him. Mr. Shimerda came to America with his family from Bohemia in order to start a new life. He and his wife
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transcends all boundaries. Two complementary poems illustrate this fact‚ despite being written 150 years apart. Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” is set in 16th Century Italy. The Duke of Ferrara is discussing the portrait of his last duchess to an envoy of a nobleman‚ whose daughter he is planning to marry. Similarly‚ the contemporary woman in Gabriel Spera’s “My Ex-Husband‚” relates the details of her first marriage to the man in her new relationship. Throughout both dramatic monologues‚ jealousy
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