Using the dramatic monologue narrative, Browning gives us a psychological insight into the narrator's mind, and also allows us get an unusual understanding behind his gruesome act of murder. ... Prior to the murder, we are led to believe how much the narrator cares and thinks of his lover. ... Robert Browning is well known for mastering dramatic monologue and getting his readers to really engage in his work. Browning was especially known for his dramatic monologues that allowed him to develop techniques that played a big role in poetry. ... "Porphyria's Lover" is a great ex...

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Prior to this event, is where my monologue fits in with the plot. ... Recognise my justifications I chose to present that specific monologue because, as I said before, the themes for the piece are so significant. ... You may have noticed that my tone changed half way through my monologue, when I finally stated that I was to kill my sons. ... It also reflects the chorus" view, because prior to expressing anger, the audience would have felt very sorry for poor Medea, whose heart had been crushed. ...

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This is the view that I held prior to this reading. ... Egocentric speech happens like running commentary, it is the child's monologue. ... Vygotsky argues that the child's monologue does not disappear with this development but instead becomes the child's inner speech. ... The monologue of children that Britton calls their "spiel" is one that occurs frequently in preschool classrooms I have been in. ...

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The story begins with a monologue by a loyal, yet confused husband, who is playing pool with his friend Jack Mc Morrow. ... But the monologue can be viewed in different lights. ... Even though it is a monologue, the main character speaks of his problems at home while simultaneously discussing Jack Mc Morrow's pool shots. ... Certainly Jack would have mentioned having a date prior to their pool game. ...

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This leads to the action of rebellion against the government prior to the Hunger Games and during the competition. ... This inner monologue shows that Katniss is starting to slowly build the courage to openly rebel against the Capitol, while inspiring the Districts. ... In addition, prior to the Games, Katniss was feeling frustrated at the Capitol's disinterest of her life. ... Prior to the Hunger Games, Gale is extremely vocal about the corruption and barbarity of the Capitol. ...

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As children, we were all afraid of monsters that lurked in the shadow of night. Similarly, without this veil of darkness, Macbeth's evil deeds would have been disclosed. Not only is night used as a cover-up, but also as a foreshadowing tool that shows the state of morality in the play and characters...

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Hal monologues: So when this loose behavior I throw off And pay the debt I never promised, By how much better than my word am I, By so much shall I falsify men's hopes, And like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glitt'ring o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off. I'll so offend, to make offense a skill, Redeeming time when men think least I will. (2.2, lines 208-217) In this monologue, Hal gives the audience a taste of what is to come once he becomes King. ... King Henry V sentences Falstaff to d...

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Prior to the appearance of the new wave, as with the films in mainland China and Taiwan, Hong Kong films were deeply influenced by the traditional Chinese feature films based in Shanghai that had been prevalent since the Second World War. ...

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The story, however, consists of many flashbacks to prior dates. ... At one point in the novel, during Jason's monologue, Jason and the female Quentin had gotten into an argument, about Quentin skipping school. ... Throughout Jason's monologue, he made many references to his brother Quentin getting the opportunity to go to Harvard, and him not getting the opportunity to attend college. ...

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In Eugene O"Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, each member of the Tyrone family attempts to ignore his or her problems by descending into the depths of substance abuse and finding fault with the others. As Hinden notes, "The Tyrones exhibit patterns typical of families in which chemical depende...

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Alfred Prufrock,"" commonly known as "Prufrock," written mostly when Eliot was only twenty-two, was pioneering in its use of interior monologue, in its fragmented structure, and in its startling figurative language ("Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table"").   ...

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She laments the exclusion of the names of these pre-twentieth-century female artists in art history text books, "Although Sofonisba was praised in the seventeenth century as being a portraitist equal to Titian, and at least thirty of her paintings are known to us, there is no trace of her, or any other woman artist prior to the twentieth century, in your current art history textbook"[Wen91]. ...

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Waiting for Godot qualifies as one of Samuel Beckett's most famous works. Originally written in French in 1948, Beckett personally translated the play into English. The world premiere was held on January 5, 1953, in the Left Bank Theatre of Babylon in Paris. The play's reputation spread slowly throu...

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Depression, melancholy, disillusionment, and disconnectedness are the burning emotions churning in young Hamlet's soul as he attempts to come to terms with his father's death and his mother's incestuous, illicit marriage. While Hamlet tries to pick up the pieces of his shattered idealism, he conscio...

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