Dramatic monologue

Life is full of wonders; there is no doubt about it. Some search all their lives to discover the unknown. This can lead someone hunting in for knowledge that is supposed to be unidentified for a reason; which is why people wonder. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. Although there is a vast difference in content and plot in Paradise Lost by John Milton and Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, there is a great deal in commonality. The two main characters in both works, Dr. Faustus and…

Containing earthquakes, massacres, hippies, politicians, ABBA, artists and a gay bar, ‘Bastard Territory’ by Stephan Carleton, covered a lot of topics, but simply put, it was a story about a boy and his parents. Presented by the Queensland Theatre Company and separated into three acts; each covering a different year, 1967, 1975 then 2001, ‘Bastard Territory’ covered the life of married couple Lois and Neville and later on their son Russell, while narrated by an adult Russell acting as a…

I will be drawing the similarities and differences between ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ by John Keats and ‘My Last Duchess’ by Robert Browning and how these similarities and differences affect the portrayal of relationships in the poems. There is a lot of history utilised in both poems. At the time Robert Browning wrote ‘My Last Duchess’, there was a large influence in Italy mainly over possessions and status. The story of the Borgias family, who paid people to kill those that they didn’t like…

It is logical to think that the end of a book, a story, or a movie, is the main idea and author’s thoughts on everything that took place before. For example, if in a fairy tale a woman who has always been dirty ends up with all her furniture and household goods running away from her, we know: being dirty is bad, and it will lead you to lose things you like. However, is many works, the ending is more complicated than it is in others; some of them can be open for interpretation, or simply to be…

Ferris talks to the viewers as if he’s known them his entire life. He continues to do this throughout the entire film, creating an intimate relationship between himself and the viewers while maintaining a good story and flow in the film itself. His monologues don’t in any way detract from the plot that is unfolding in front of us while Ferris narrates. This as well is a kind of emotional connection that you can’t find in other movies, you couldn’t stand if anything bad were to happen to Ferris…

Known as a tragedy, but commonly mistaken as a romance, the play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet entrances the readers with hatred and love, bloodshed and kisses, and poisons and remedies. William Shakespeare creates a story about two young lovers who are doomed from the beginning due to their fatal flaw- they are too impulsive. Although Romeo is often the character to make hasty decisions, one of his best friends can be found to do so too. He and Mercutio are foils for one another, their…

utopia of wealth and happiness (Belton, 2009). Through dazzling song and dance, they make routine look like pageantry and loneliness feel like individuality. Even the most conservative of musicals transform the everyday into a spectacle, transitioning dramatic tensions into a melodic fanfare. Singing liberates the characters to express themselves in a way that mere words never could, giving them a freedom from the doldrums of reality that moviegoers long for. The difficulties of society seem…

Doctor Faustus is a play by Christopher Marlowe. It was first published in 1604, eleven years after Marlowe’s death and at least ten years after the first performance of the play. Doctor Faustus is the story of a man coming to grief by his unbridled thirst for knowledge and power which leads him to his final damnation. It is a play of deep questions concerning morality, religion and man’s relationship to both. This play actually feeds the desire of the supernatural beliefs of the Elizabethan…

The theme of death is represented in similar ways throughout the six poems. In ‘A Mother in a Refugee Camp’ by Chinua Achebe, death is shown through the children’s life and the death of the relationship the mother has with the child. The poem ‘Havisham’ is filled with hatred and ‘War Photographer’ is about the death of thousands in a war and the narrator broadcasting these events in the newspaper. ‘Anne Hathaway’ is a contrasting poem and shows a positive attitude towards death, in comparison,…

In the pouring rain, the camera zooms in on the Burnham’s garage, where you can see a shirtless Lester Burnham doing pull ups through a window. The view switches to inside the garage, where the viewer sees the neighbor, Frank Fitts, approaching. All the while, eerie music becomes louder and louder. Lester makes eye contact with Frank through the window and opens the garage door via remote control. Frank slowly ambles in while Lester exclaims “Jesus, man, you’re soaked!” (American Beauty) Lester…