Dramatic monologue

My Time of Constant Growth One of the reasons eighth grade Ky Majors choose St. Cecilia was due to the fine arts program. Attending the forensics tournaments, hosted here was a main contributor to decision and since I have never looked back. Immediately upon attending I joined the forensics team and during my Sophomore and Senior year, I did the musical. The decision I made in eighth grade and even throughout high school have majorly contributed to my love and growth as an actress. My…

Boar's Head company drinking and sitting with a gangs of villains and highwaymen. His relationship with his father, King Henry, is enormously strained and the King is very much frustrated in his son. In his exceptionally magnificent and significant monologue, in act I scene II, Henry IV Part I, Harry, for the first time, demonstrates his trick of idling and acting awfully. Now, the only people who know Harry's act are the audience and Harry himself. He is addressing his secret plan to make…

Lorraine Hansberry’s play, “A Raisin in the Sun”, is about an African American family, the Youngers, who are surrounded by poverty, racism, and family conflict. The Youngers aspire to give themselves a better life to ultimately pass that down to future generations. Their conflict comes into play when the family receives an insurance check for $10,000 and has split decisions on what to do with it. Hansberry’s play suggests that poverty is a symptom of racism by using characters that seem to be of…

All dreams begin with a “first,” and for the Fine Arts Department at Copperas Cove High School, its First Fine Arts Gala became a reality Saturday, March 26 at Lea Ledger Auditorium to a crowd of about 120. The gala was a collection of acts, like dance, singing, instrumental ensembles and acting with event organizer and senior Mirko Enriquez finding it a challenge getting the right mix of acts together. “We wanted to showcase the different Fine Arts groups and make this into a formal event to…

Robert Browning’s dramatic monologue, “My Last Duchess” decries the inhibition of individual rights which resulted from the Victorian preoccupation with social status and wealth. Victorian social hierarchy demonstrates the social divisions of people based on their occupation and birthright, in a pre-defined specific ladder. The ekphrastic poem elucidates the possessive and cynical nature of the Duke, who objectifies the Duchess in a painting, “that piece a wonder, now”, revealing both the…

Poetry is forms of writing that can help numerous people write their views and feelings in a modest way. Gabriel Okara, Louis MacNeice and Rudyard Kipling all convey their worries and memories through their poems, ‘Once Upon a Time, ‘Prayer Before Birth and ‘If’. All of these three poems have a common theme, which is childhood. “Once Upon a Time” by Gabriel Okara is a free verse poem. The poem is written in a first person point of view and contains irregular stanzas. The speaker could be a…

Love has always been a controversial topic between men and women. Analyzing Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poem, “My Letters! All Dead Paper” and Andrew Marvell’s, “To His Coy Mistress,” men and women vary in some expectations about love. Marvell’s character focuses on convincing the mistress to make love with him; Browning’s character is reviewing the letters from her lover and having reactions on the paper’s words. It is also important to pay close attention to the words used in Marvell’s poem…

The entire novel is a dramatic monologue meaning we not only hear the voice of the speaker, and only of the speaker, but that voice creates a scene. However the use of such a technique can be used to inflict bias upon the story line, something that the narrator himself touches on when he says ‘It is the thrust of one’s narrative that counts, not the accuracy of one’s details’. The dramatic monologue is an effective choice for Hamid who wants audiences to make…

Mohsin Hamid’s use of dramatic monologue in the form of a one-sided conversation creates an opportunity for Changez, who can be depicted as a representation of the Muslim population, to narrate another side of the story resulting from the 9/11 tragedy. By not incorporating his interlocutor’s voice–mirroring the reader–the American voice, which previously dominated the dialogue in media, is forced to listen. Changez’s experiences as a Muslim after the pivotal attacks on the American soil brings…

Mrs. Midas Mrs. Midas holds intertextual semantic relations based on world text theory with Ovid’s king Midas’ story from Metamorphoses (Ziolkowski‏ 200). In Metamorphoses, Book XI, King Midas was granted a wish, viz., everything he touches, turns into gold. His wish proved to be a curse since his food and drink turn into gold. Upon his request, the wish was taken away. His foolishness did not stop at the curse-like wish; moreover, he commits another blunder when he judges Pan a winner in a…