Dramatic monologue

Although critics of Jacobs might argue that her bold claims lack statistical underpinnings, her book is not meant to be published in an academic journal. Instead, Jacobs seeks to appeal to a diverse public in hopes of inspiring change. Her dramatic language and rhetorical strategies emphasize the shortcomings of city planners, and her allusion to the Bible further instill frustration in the reader. By understanding Jacobs’ emotional language in this short passage, the rest of the novel becomes…

The Man Your Man Could Smell Like "Anything is possible when your man smells like Old Spice and not a lady"(Old Spice) this commercial, for Old Spice, exhibits the ideal man. The reason behind this commercial is that if a man uses Old Spice body wash he will end up being the ideal man. As the Old Spice man says in the commercial. The commercial conveys the message that men who use Old Spice are to be more empowered, confident, and strong. The advertisement utilizes an emotional appeal over…

The first book in the trilogy “Order of Darkness”, Changeling, a novel by Philippa Gregory, illustrates the process of 17 year old Luca Vero’s quest to record the end of times across Europe in Christendom. The book tells the story in Lucretili, Italy during the span of the middle of the 15th century in 1453. After Luca Vero is recruited to record the strange stories of Christendom in Italy, he travels to an abbey where Isolde, a lady abbess, is trapped. The rest of the book covers Luca and…

On October 30, 2015 I went to see the play Hana's Suitcase performed at Young People's Theater. The play is about a girl named Hana Brady who was murdered in Auchwitz and how her suitcase was found at the Tokyo Holocaust Education Center. The story alternates between the past and present. Some scenes telling the story of Hana's life and journey, while other scenes show a teacher's journey to educate Japanese children about the horrors of the Holocaust. In addition, the audience is exposed to the…

Mohsin Hamid is a Pakistani Novelist and story writer born in 1971 in Lahore. His father was a university professor in the United States of America. He stayed at united states from the age of 3 until 9 and then moved back to Pakistan. He then returned to the USA and graduated from Princeton university in 1993. He also studied law, but didn't practice law, instead he started writing. He wrote three novels and a book containing short stories. His first novel was ''Moth Smoke'' that was published…

Act Three shows Othello’s disintegrating mental state, as he tips from self-assured, authoritative, and composed into emotional turmoil and jealous rage, manipulated by Iago. This is shown in his speech and actions, which see a dramatic change over act three, to amplify both the disintegration of his mental state and the effect Iago’s manipulation has on Othello. Act 3 Scene 2 is a short scene that shows Othello’s authority as a general. It opens with an imperative delivered by Othello- “These…

Themes of nature in the works of T S Eliot T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land is an imperative breakthrough in the history of English poetry and one of the most deliberated poems of the twentieth century. It is a long poem of about four hundred forty lines in the five parts entitled 1) The Burial of the dead, 2) A Game of Chess, 3) The Fire Sermon, 4) Death by Water and 5) What the Thunder said. The poet was just recovering after a serious breakdown in health, caused by domestic worries and over-work…

Since its inception in the late eighteenth century, the Gothic movement has been fascinated with female bodies. This is especially true of Gothic poems of the Victorian Era, such as Robert Browning’s dramatic monologue Porphyria’s Lover (first published as Porphyria, 1836) and Christina Rossetti’s disturbing children’s fable Goblin Market (composed 1859, published 1862). Each poem demonstrates that, due to societal attitudes, a woman’s body has the potential to be dangerous to her, while also…

Although Shakespeare's plays appear to be largely two-dimensional, there are characters who, at times, portray a three-dimensional, sort of self awareness of their dramatic situation. For example, in The Taming of the Shrew, Petruchio often speaks his plans unnecessarily aloud to the audience with comical descriptions. Additionally, Feste in Twelfth Night portrays his "self awareness" through dialogue only the audience would find comical given their omniscient view point and detachment from the…

Tim Burton’s (1989) is a typical Hollywood superhero blockbuster and it was very successful. Most superhero movies such as and have similarities that main characters have superpowers and live a double life as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Most of them are about the good triumphing over the evil and also follows this formality. The only difference is that Batman made and raised his power by using fabulous power with his own choice and volition. The success of series created other superhero…