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    Topic 2 #3 (Satirical criticism) Walter Harding is most accurate when he said you could read Walden as a satirical criticism of modern life and living. Another way of saying this would be that Thoreau writes in a way that he is criticizing the way modern people are living. In fact‚ he believes‚ that we could be living in a different way‚ which would ideally be a more nature-oriented and simplistic form of living. In other words‚ Thoreau thinks the best way to live is to abandon all materialistic

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    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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    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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    1953. So it could be the case that in the end Dylan Thomas did go gentle into that good night‚ or maybe it was his own way to rage against the dying of the light. In My Last Duchess‚ the vulnerability and fragility of life is shown through the monologue of an unhinged Duke. He is speaking to a Count’s servant about his last Duchess‚ as he is planning to marry the Count’s daughter. The poem uses subtle foreboding and eloquent speech to portray the Duke’s obsessive madness. The Duke begins talking

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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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    Celebrity Role Models A state in which the mind is elevated above the reach of ordinary impressions‚ unconscious of sensible objects‚ and under the influence of overpowering emotions celebrities find irresistible and enticing. Celebrities distinguish themselves in such ways that others admire and want to emulate. Celebrities are worthy of imitation; "everyone needs a role model". The immense amount of drug usage that celebrities‚ athletes‚ professionals‚ and politicians take part in has improved

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    Good people disagree about the morality of abortion because we disagree about what defines human nature. First trimester abortions may have absolutely no moral implications whatsoever--perhaps a first trimester embryo is no more conscious than a kidney or spleen. Or they may have more serious moral implications. Our culture hasn’t come to a consensus on that yet. But we know a little bit about murder‚ and the differences between murder and other forms of killing. And murder‚ in the way that we define

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    Browning similarly aims to subvert traditional beliefs - only this time of madness being an inherently female characteristic - in ‘Porphyria’s Lover’. In ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ it seems that traditional gender roles have been reversed in that Porphyria and her partner is entitled as her “lover”. In this sense‚ the ownership is put completely on her because Browning has chosen to entitle the poem ‘Porphyria’s Lover’‚ using a possessive apostrophe. However‚ throughout the poem‚ the emphasis is put on

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