Duke Nukem Forever

Planned for release “well before Christmas 1998,” the game would ultimately be worked and re-worked every time a new technology came out. Rather than actually finish the game, the developer George Broussard dragged it out until it was finally released in 2011, to disappointingly low reviews. Why did this happen? After the incredible success of Duke Nukem 3D, Broussard and his company 3D Realms were quite wealthy. Unlike when they had developed the first game, there was no real threat of running out of resources. Therefore, each time a new piece of hardware came out, there was always enough money to scratch a part of the game in order to upgrade it. This would ultimately lead to a cycle of creating and redoing that would lead to the project almost being cancelled. Many fans almost wish it was, as the finished product was not worth the near 15 year…

Poems happen to be words that mean more than they look. May they express a message, describe someone’s point of view of his/her life or anything, poems are able to do so much with so little. Such is how famous poet of the 19th century Robert Browning managed to do with his writings. Through his writings of My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover, we will look upon the way that he believes men would become alongside women. Replaced for stronger than interesting To start it off, let’s discuss…

“Checking Out Me History” both express anger through a first person perspective, in the form of a dramatic monologue, although the poems offer two different portrayals of anger. In Browning’s poem, the reader is introduced to a seemingly expressive and biased rant from the Duke about his past Duchess, speaking to an envoy. ‘My’, the possessive pronoun, implies he sees women as possessions. The Duke thinks the world revolves around him because he owns "a nine-hundred-years-old name”, the reader…

and Christina Rossetti illustrate women’s oppression by men in Victorian society within their poems, “My Last Duchess” and “Goblin Market.” The Duchess, Laura, and Lizzie all act against the expectations set for them with varying ramifications. The poets use different narrative perspectives and careful word choice in order to depict the subjugation of these women, their rebellion against it, and the punishment they face for rebelling, calling public attention to the mistreatment of women. In…

In this poem, Porphyria has come to see her lover, and it is describe by her lover, the speaker, her actions, as well as his thoughts and actions which leads to a very disturbing text. When Porphyria comes to see her lover, the way the speaker describes it, seems to be a normal occurrence and nothing is out of place or order with the event. Her love for him is proven when she comes through wind and rain just to see him and she told him that she loved him and couldn’t escape her feelings and she…

With a further manifestation of the dukes possessiveness seen throughout the structure of the poem in which the numerous uses of caesura illustrates the duke’s control over the conversation and compliments the Duke’s own arrogance. Throughout the conversation the Duke is, in effect, manipulating his guest as if he were a puppet- sit down, stand up, look at this, notice that- a representation of just what his free-spirited wife would have resented to do. With this the impression is created that…

Duchess” the author describes a teenage girl who is in transition of becoming an adult. She feels anxious about her future but finds comfort and an understandable nature of the character the Duke, and defines herself through his independence in comparison to the unmistakably joyful Duchess. Atwood’s “My Last Duchess” involves Browning’s “My Last Duchess” by exploring the nature of the Duke, looking at the young girls perspective on authority and relationships. While reading the poem “My Last…

In line 45-47 of My Last Duchess the author revealed to use that the Duke is crazy, jealous, and selfish. Firstly, the author shows us that the Duke is crazy because he said “Then all smiles stopped together.” The author could have been inferring to us that base on the words of the Duke that he could have possibly kill or send the Duchess to a mental facility because in this era it was common for this like that to happen and by doing that he won’t have to see her smile towards anyone else ever…

is unable to bear with any act of agency performed by women. In the poem, even the smile of the Duchess makes the Duke obsessive and aggressive. This leads to her murder through which Duke believes he has controlled all her smiles and locked them in a picture. His act of murdering proves him to be a tyrant misogynist.…

work published. Details of the play would have to be noted or often pirated without his consent following a performance. In this play there a few main characters that needs to be introduced. The Duke (of Milan), has the highest title of Milan and is the father of Silvia. Silvia is the daughter of the Duke and is the beloved of Valentine.…