Dramatic monologue

Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning both use dramatic monologues as a poetical device to capture a reader’s attention and subvert the status quo of political notions that they rail against in order to achieve their ideals of race/gender/class equality. However, their approach to utilizing dramatic monologue to achieve this goal is substantially different. The difference of tone, context, and form of the dramatic monologue are vividly showcased in the contrast of Barrett’s “The Cry of…

Such as in “My Last Duchess” the first-person narrator is a Duke because he refers to his “nine-hundred-years-old name” (ln 33), and in “Jenny” the first-person narrative is a customer of a “fallen” woman. Furthermore, the dramatic monologue seems to be characterize with language that gives hints to the person’s character, their psychology, and the situation that they are in. I think that it is depicted with the narrator’s internal thoughts expressed like in “Jenny,” when he refers…

a very dramatic and ironic poem due to the speaker’s theme of obsession. In Uma Kukathas’s ‘Critical Essay on “Porphyria’s Lover”’ it is stated and agreed upon that “"Porphyria 's Lover," is a poem in which a madman recounts to himself the events of the night before that end with his murdering the woman he loves.” (Kutkathas, Critical Essay on.). Throughout the poem there are multiple aspects that have a major impact on the theme such as the poets’ use of syntax and diction in the dramatic…

clowns” on stage, and essentially tells a story about people growing into their destinies determined by God, the background force of the history plays. The themes, character arcs, and the contemporary anxieties finds best representation in Henry IV’s monologue in 4.5.95-140.…

between the speaker and his speeches. Tamburlaine is a “dramatic figure symbolising certain qualities.” This idea is so powerful that it influences every one of Tamburlaine’s speeches. If we take into consideration M.C. Bradbrook’s idea that “the essential structure of Elizabethan drama lies not in the narrative or the character but in the words,” then Marlowe’s Tamburlaine marks a new stage of development at which the language becomes a dramatic medium of expression and of…

writes this poem in the form of a dramatic monologue, and by using this technique the reader is told details of the main characters life and personality through his speech. This is also accomplished through the way the poem itself is structured and how the stanza’s are divided. According to dictionary.com a dramatic monologue is defined as, “a poetic form in which a single character, addressing a silent auditor at a critical moment, reveals himself and the dramatic situation.”…

his dramatic monologues. According to the Victorian web, ‘’the last duchess’’ delves into the theme of marriage and relationships, since the dramatic monologue revolves around a painting of his previous wife and is presented to his wife-to-be’s count. As we dive deeper into this monologue, we notice countless themes arising, these include; sexuality, power, art, youth, innocence and a little hint of madness. Besides the many themes that the monologue explores, there is an aspect of dramatic…

Monologues are such an important aspect to acting and I am pleased that our Introduction to Acting class was given the opportunity to explore monologues and other basic aspects of acting. Given that I would have loved to have more time during our individual rehearsals to have my performance critiqued, I enjoyed the process we underwent to explore our monologues. I personally enjoyed choosing something that I had never done before and that forced me to read one of my new favorite dramatic works…

The World’s Wife is based on intertextual webs and most of the poems take the form of a dramatic monologue. Duffy chooses to play the intertextual game in order to convey a certain message, to voice her ideas through historical, religious and mythical figures. She focuses on the marginalized, women in particular. Her trademark dramatic monologue is successfully employed in The World’s Wife (1999) in which, drawing on Greek mythology, the Bible, fairy tales, literature, history, and film,…

different aspects of acting. This includes a monologue, theatre history, a production unit and a vocal masque. When we began our first unit in regards to monologues, I was anxious for the reason that I have never done a dramatic piece by myself. Everyone had high hopes for my presentation when I told my classmates about my topic. However, this put a big toll on myself because I didn’t know how to go about my monologue, but once I attempted my monologue with the helps from Ms Naidu. Most…