Dramatic monologue

In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the titular Macbeth and his wife attempt to avoid being accused of the murders they have committed by transforming their own personalities; however, throughout the story, a more prominent manipulation of suspension of disbelief develops. Although Lady Macbeth is able to successfully masquerade as a guiding voice for her husband, she is secretly manipulating him so that she may both inflict death on as many people as possible and guarantee herself dominance of…

Mercutio’s most famous monologues. The speech starts off lighthearted and with Mercutio’s temper tranquil. However as Mercutio progresses with his speech he was absorbed into the passage. By the end of the speech Mercutio is…

acts of violence and horror. These traumatizing events cannot be eradicated, but can be fought through understanding and learning. Ai’s dramatic monologue, “The Kid”, unveils the darkness that can lurk within mankind's psyche. It is a competition of male dominance that is taken to the extreme. Jack is portrayed as an innocent fourteen year old boy, but as the monologue unravels, Jack’s dominant and arrogant personality is revealed. Jack’s primary focus is on his father whom he feels is standing…

The poet has chosen this poem because of that she wanted to use the idea of prosopopeia as Grace Nichols does in Picasso, I Want My Face Back. This influence is seen clearly in Standing Female Nude in which there is an interior, dramatic monologue which Duffy usually use in her poems and belongs to the narrator who is also the prostitute. This is also what causes intertextually. This three stanza poem’s literal subject is a man who draws a whore. As always, Duffy uses a accessible…

that each had conflicting personality traits. For instance, Aaron Kreifel's is a young man who finds Matthew tied to the fence. This monologue is chronological in its events; therefore, I made the decision to present his dialogue in a reflective way. To do so I added dramatic pauses, to indicate he was rethinking his experience. Stage directions throughout his monologue are not stated by the writer, leaving this up to the director and the actor. The tempo and rhythm of this piece altered,…

In Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, Leonato gives a long monologue in Act 4 Scene 1 after his daughter, Hero, faints from her fiancé’s accusations that she was seen with another man the night before their wedding. The words Shakespeare choses Leonato to say in that moment are telling about how women’s purity, trust of nobility, and honor were treated during the Elizabethan era. One of the first things to note is the way Leonato speaks about Hero recovering. He says, “Do not live, Hero, do…

the sinister atmosphere is created right from the opening of the poem. "The devil was one of the men at work" the word choice of "devil" shows that Ian Brady is evil and distrusting, "men at work" is a double entendre and shows the Brady was physically working with Hindly but also mentally working with her and manipulating her. this creates unease with the reader as we see that there is something ominous and menacing about Ian Brady. "he entered me" this also has a double entendre and refers to…

death” (Roethke, 1) to his father’s person. The characters of My Papa’s Waltz tell the story by described actions and imagery, allowing the reader to form opinions within the ambiguous poem. 8 My Last Duchess displays traits considered of a dramatic monologue. The poem contains three main components: a speaker, a hearer, and occasion (Allingham, 1). Despite the poem titled as My…

Springsteen positions himself as Charles Weather and his audience as the auditors of the song, allowing them to garner an insight into the perspective of the criminal. The song itself takes on the lyric form of a subgenre of poetry known as the dramatic monologue. Such poems “tend to offer us a window into an entire, complex psychology” (Mays 463). However, this song seems to suggest there is no complex reasoning behind the speaker’s motives due to an ambiguous closing line…

that Grew from Concrete,” is written by Tupac Amaru Shakur. The poem is short, and is an autobiographical dramatic monologue in which the speaker addresses aspects of the poet’s life. The idea that the poem is a dramatic monologue is demonstrated by the one sided question the speaker asks the reader: “Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?” The poem is dramatic as it is spoken in a moment of deep emotion, as the speaker passionately discusses the subject,…