Magen Gable Professor Box English 2201-025 11 September 2016 “My Last Duchess” “My Last Duchess” written by Robert Browning is a compelling poem that exposes many different elements when analyzed closely. This is a dramatic monologue that demonstrates a very jealous man who wants complete control over his Duchess. In this poem‚ a Duke is showing a portrait of his first wife to a servant of his future father-in-law in his private art gallery. He keeps this portrait behind a curtain that only
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My Last Duchess 1. The speaker of the poem is the Duke of Ferrara who is indeed a very strict individual and demanding and always wants to be pleased. 2. He is speaking to the father of the woman that he wants to marry. The appropriate audience would be the family of the woman. 3. The word persona is applicable because it is interpreted in first person‚ Duke Ferrara’s perspective. 4. The dramatic situation is when the Duke is negotiating his art gallery in order for the father to agree on
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Although they are famous works by two different famous poets‚ "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning and "Ulysses" by Alfred Lord Tennyson share many similarities. Both poems are examples of dramatic monologues‚ in that they consist entirely of the speech of the main character. As a result they both have very few stanzas. "My Last Duchess" is set in Italy during the Renaissance period. In this poem the Duke is talking to his prospective father-in-law’s servant about a painting of his former wife. Ulysses
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Statues are erected to reflect and / or represent an event or character that it depicts. The St. Catherines City Hall statue‚ erected in 1886‚ represents a militia member from the Winnipeg 90th division named Private Alexander Watson. The statue of Private Alexander Watson should be taken down as it does not represent what was once intended. Also‚ there are other concerns that support the removal of the statue‚ with the restoration price being one of them. As well‚ modern thinking about Louis Riel
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Murder... mystery... intrigue... All describe Robert Browning’s poem‚ "My Last Duchess." From the speakers’s indirect allusions to the death of his wife the reader might easily think that the speaker committed a vengeful crime out of jealousy. His flowery speech confuses and disguises any possible motives‚ however‚ and the mystery is left unsolved. Based on the poem’s style‚ structure‚ and historical references‚ it becomes evident that even if the speaker did not directly kill his
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Tubotein Taylor 2/10/13 Humanities 2 Bastard Children In the story entitled “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin‚ Desiree and her husband‚ Armand Aubigny‚ were blessed with a beautiful child to whom they could call their own. They were very much in love‚ until the site of their child could not go unnoticed any longer. There was no place for two whites to paternally and maternally take care of a Negro child. Since this is a white male dominant society‚ he automatically assumed that she was at fault
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incidents arousing pity and fear‚ wherewith to accomplish a catharsis of these emotions.” This literary theory is used as a tool for analyzing Greek tragedy. The drama Oedipus the King by Sophocles could be considered a tragedy and Oedipus considered a tragic hero by Aristotle’s definition‚ for it follows all five steps. The first aspect of Aristotle’s definition of tragedy is “the imitation of an action that is serious and also‚ as having magnitude‚ complete in itself”. What Aristotle means is that
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those characters have a tragic flaw; that influences the character to their downfall. The tragic flaw for each character is different. It is influenced by many factors‚ such as family and the environment they are exposed to. These influences lead to the death of the eternal love of Romeo and Juliet‚ or even the life of a school girl‚ Alaska; in Looking for Alaska. The tragic flaw of a character is influenced by many factors‚ leading to the character’s downfall. The tragic flaw could be observed
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However‚ things start to change when Katherine sent for Derek and he surprised the two of them by visiting her in London. Will they get their marriage back on track and realize that they do love each other? [$11] 10. The Reluctant Duchess by Sharon Cullen The Reluctant Duchess mixes romance and murder in a tale that involves a shy lady and a hot-headed duke. Lady Sara’s cousin gets murdered and now it seems like she’s the next target‚ and this forces her to get the help of Gabriel‚ the Duke of Rossmoyne
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2010 Tragic Hero Usually when reading‚ tragedy and conflict is the most popular way to catch the readers eye. People are attracted to the suffering of the main character who is most of the time the hero in Greek plays. To begin with‚ the audience develops an emotional attachment to the hero‚ people fear what may occur to the hero and end up feeling sorry for him or her. In the Theban Plays the author Sophocles uses the character of Oedipus to demonstrate the qualities of a tragic hero.
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