Robert Browning’s poem “My Last Duchess” is a story of many emotions, including jealousy, paranoia, pride, and selfishness. It is also an account of how double standards can be found at this time in history and sometimes even in today’s society. Poems like this one can travel through time and be meaningful many years after they are originally written. In a nut shell, “My Last Duchess” is the recounting of a Duke and his wife, with whose actions he was not pleased with. Her seemingly innocent actions
Beatty’s monologue lands in the border of frenzie and confusing, because of his inclination to go from one thing to another with no explanation whatsoever about the connections between the events and ideas he is talking about. It makes the history of firemen very hard to understand. Beatty’s story begins with the idea of photography, film, and television making it possible to present information in a faster, visual, and understandable form. This made the slower practice of reading long, time consuming
talked about the writing of An Imaginary Life. He has said that:- I didn’t realize I was writing a novel when I started that book. I didn’t know what I was writing, whether it was a long dramatic monologue in prose or whether I was writing a long prose poem, or a piece of part fiction, part-monologue, part-essay. I just launched into it. What I was interested in were all questions that had come up out of poetry: they were questions about the language of poetry, they were questions about the relationship
One Day at a Time “Each day means a new 24 hours. Each day means everything is possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time”(Lu 304). In both Legend by Marie Lu and Tears of a Tiger by Sharon Draper, the characters are very well created. Both authors go very deep into each and every character they create, giving them distinct characteristics that, along with the rest of the well written book, captivate readers into not being able to put the book
Rarely did he experiment with language or attempt the interior monologues (Donald 299). Hughes is particularly known for his insightful and colorful portrayals of black life in America. Hughes refused to discriminate between his personal experience and the common experience of black America. He wanted to tell the stories
Hamlet’s incompetence is not due to him being on the verge of insanity, as his actions might portray, but because of the sheer perception and intellect that leaves him hopeless in this regard. He is having a hard time in finding solid grounds to affirm his intuition because he is well aware of the fact that the apparition of his dad could most possibly be a demonic presence who is but striving to manipulate his innate turmoil and commotion to blur his intelligence
distinguishing between a character's mind and his actions. To be both fully informed and still engrossed in the plight of a character is one of the biggest accomplishments in writing. Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, is a great example of perfect execution of this task. Raskolnikov, the main character and also in many ways the narrator of the book, creates two different perspectives for the world he is experiencing and the one he creates and understands in his head. This is best expressed
She starts the rejoinder by questioning Parliament’s reasoning behind this delegation. The repetition of the first paragraph is reminiscent of Shylock’s famous monologue in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. The rhetorical questions make it seem as if Parliament is questioning her character rather than her marital status. Again, Elizabeth uses her relationship with England as an example for which her marriage
a people pleaser and feeds off of positive attention, like most children. While constantly being a mirror, it is never seen what he actually does but rather what he is thinking about doing. The lack of dialogue leaves the reader in Huck’s inner monologues because the plot is not about his physical journey, but more of a mental and emotional journey into finally being able to discover himself and not act to please those around him. Huck is faced with a crisis in his physical identity relevant while
Dave Eggers’ The Circle simplified Dave Eggers’ The Circle is a narrative about the life of Mae: a college graduate that got her dream job in the best company she could imagine. Underneath the narrative, Eggers comments on ideas of privacy and social interactions in the digital era through the voice of his protagonist. In particular, Eggers uses ambiguous situations, his protagonist and some minor characters that play crucial role in the novel, well-constructed dialogues and analogies to underscore