...Podcast Speaker: Jagmohan Thami Journalist: Joshua Findler Script Writer: Jacob Setters *Intro Music Starts* *Intro Music Stops* Jag: Welcome to our podcast, I will be answering travel questions from our very own Journalist. Josh: Where did you go on your last holiday? Jag: Last year, I went to Spain, the flight was good it took 2 hour 15 minutes. *Spanish Music Starts* Josh: what was the mode of transport? Jag: It was a Plane, the airport I took was from London (LHR) – Barcelona (BCN). Josh: Was there any stops in the flight? And how long was the flight? Jag: There was no stops and the flight was approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes. Josh: What language did they speak in Spain? Jag: There Native language is Spanish but most of the...
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...In order to understand Hamlet, we must understand his frustration. This frustration is most clear in his famous monologue, famously beginning with the line "Oh what a rogue and peasant slave am I." This self-condemnation is contrasted by his admiration for the actor of the previous scene, who "in a fiction" is able to "force his soul to his own conceit." The word "soul" is an example of metonymy, as the soul represents the actor's "visage," "tears," "distraction," and "voice." Thus Hamlet equates "soul" with one's actions, so by his own comparison his soul is weak, as he does not take action against the king. The second sentence is furthermore a rhetorical question, beginning with, "Is it notŠ" So clearly Hamlet's lack of emotion is "monstrous" in his own mind at the very start of the monologue. The equation of "Hecuba" to "nothing" is then contrasted by Hamlet's "cue" being the murder of his father. Hamlet then states that the actor would "drown the stage with tears" if he were in Hamlet's position. The visual hyperbole which is compounded by the repetit... ... middle of paper ... ...tions: Hamlet. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1986. Rpt. from Tragic Alphabet: Shakespeare's Drama of Language. N. p.: Yale University Press, 1974. Rosenberg, Marvin. "Laertes: An Impulsive but Earnest Young Aristocrat." Readings on Hamlet. Ed. Don Nardo. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1999. Rpt. from The Masks of Hamlet. Newark, NJ: University of Delaware Press, 1992...
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...Skyler King Professor Lanham English 1020 February 6, 2015 Viola: What Means this Monologue? In the play “Twelfth Night” by William Shakespeare, Viola decides that she will disguise herself as a man and she will be working with the Duke Orsino. He has been in love with Olivia for a long time, and he asks Viola to be his messenger. Viola goes to meet Olivia and tells her everything Orsino told her too. Orsino also sent a ring with Viola to give to Olivia, which she did. As she leaves, Olivia realizes that she has fallen in love with her, even though she has no idea she is a woman dressed as a man. She sends Malvolio after her to give her the ring back. She then goes into a long monologue about the ring and how confused she was that she had gotten it back. A monologue is any composition in which a single person speaks alone (dictionary.com) In her monologue, it is clear that Olivia is falling in love with Viola, and that they are caught in the middle of one huge love triangle. Throughout Viola’s monologue, she depicts many different literary elements, including allusion, metaphor, personification, symbolism, and theme. When Malvolio brings back the ring that Viola had given Olivia, she becomes very confused. In her monologue, she is basically saying that she didn’t leave a ring with her, why is she giving this to her? She is hoping that Olivia hasn’t started to like her. She was looking at Viola so much that she couldn’t even finish her sentences and she seemed distracted...
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...seventy. Browning was an English poet who has become known as the person to invent and popularise the dramatic monologue. This made him the foremost Victorian poet; two of his most successful dramatic monologues are those of ‘My last Duchess’ and ‘Porphyria’s Lover’. The reoccurring theme within the two monologues is murder as they show the idea of men killing a lover Dramatic monologues are significant in that there is only one point of view expressed throughout. In Victorian times dramatic monologues were very popular; Browning was seen as the innovator of this style of writing along with other eminent Victorian poets such as Rossetti and Tennyson. The dramatic monologue takes its style from Shakespeare’s soliloquies were a character speaks their thoughts and feelings aloud. This idea and style has been extended to the preset day, with Alan Bennett’s ‘Talking Heads.’ The speaker in ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ is the lover himself, residing in a cottage in the countryside at the beginning of the poem. The mood of the narrator is established right at the start as he talks about “the sullen wind’ ‘tore,’ ‘vex’ and ‘spite.’ He is clearly angry and unhappy. However as soon as Porphyria ‘glided’ in, the mood changes and she ‘ shut the cold out and the storm.’ The narrator feels warmed by her presence. At once the reader sees that Porphyria has taken control, she starts the fire, she removes her outer clothing – which would definitely have been understood as provocative and sexual...
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...THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST AS A MONOLOGUE MONOLOGUE: A monologue is presented by a single character, most often to express the mental thoughts aloud, sometimes also to directly address another character or the audience. Monologues are common in dramatic media as well as in non-dramatic media such as poetry. Monologues share much in common with several other literary devices including soliloquies and apostrophes. DEVICE OF MONOLOGUE IN THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST: This is probably the only novel of its kind, a novel with no lyrical descriptions of people and places. It has no dialogue at all; in fact, the entire novel is a long, gripping monologue. A novel in the form of a monologue and without a dialogue is a brilliant and novel idea, and it works magnificently in this case only because Mohsin Hamid is a superb writer with formidable powers. He grips the reader's mind with polished and haunting prose. The hero of the novel, Changez, a student from Lahore, Pakistan, attends Princeton University. After graduation at the top in his class, he secures an excellent and well-paying job at the elite valuation firm Underwood Samson. He becomes well-adjusted and well-accustomed to the American way of life, falls in love with the beautiful and elegant, Princeton-educated Erica, who hails from an aristocratic family. For the first time in his life Changez is happy. Then, unexpectedly, on September 11, 2001...
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...types is also used when considering the visual effect of a finished poem. The structure of many types of poetry results in groups of lines on the page which enhance the poem's composition. This poem provides a good example of Euphemism and Persona. “Porphyria’s Lover,” while natural in its language, does not display the colloquialisms or dialectical markers of some of Browning’s later poems. Moreover, while the cadence of the poem mimics natural speech, it actually takes the form of highly patterned verse, rhyming ABABB. The intensity and asymmetry of the pattern suggests the madness concealed within the speaker’s reasoned self-presentation. This poem is a dramatic monologue, a fictional speech presented as the musings of a speaker who is separate from the poet. Like most of Browning’s other dramatic monologues, this one captures a moment after a main event or action. Porphyria’s already lies dead when the speaker begins. Just as the nameless speaker seeks to stop time by killing her, so...
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...5 Point Essay In “The Glass Menagerie” Toms monologue in the start of the play talks about how he can apparently turn back time and talks about the the economy in the thirties and informing us on where the play will take place. “The play is memory. Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental, it is not realistic”(1166). Knowing the lighting of the play really helps set the tone of the play. The mood that he sets at the start of the play is cheery, and sort of leaving us guessing what is going to happen. “I think the rest of the play will explain itself”(1166). He is hooking us to start reading. He then says he is the narrator of the play and also a character in the play along with a few others that are closely related to him. He sounded very sure of himself and what he would be doing throughout the play. He is rather informative about his position in the play and informing us of the characters that take place as well. At the end of the play Tom says “I didn’t go to the moon, I went much further--for time is the longest distance between two places”(1210). He then explains that he was fired from his job and leaves Saint Louis and travels around for a while. At the end of his monologue he runs into his sister after seeing all of the transparent glass in the windows of the shops along the street, reminding him of his sister. The mood that he sets for the audience at the end is a happy closure. Wrapping up his life story with seeing his sister and saying goodbye...
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...Redraft monologue type 1 Strengths and weaknesses STRENGTHS | WEAKNESSES | I had done well in terms of grammar and spelling had a few mistakes but overall they were adequate. | I need to use a wide range of vocabulary as my vocabulary is quite basic in my monologue. This can be improved by using a thesaurus. The advantage of using more, better and improved vocabulary is that it will give my monologue a more effective look and it will suit my character as my character is educated and sophisticated | I had stayed within the word limit of 500 words | I think that i may change my character and his situation entirely or slightly as i not happy with it.i feel that i can do better. | I had used the emotions and words of a nervous character and by doing this created tension and i feel that this tension is what will draw the reader in. | I feel like i need to express that character more and just focus on him and his feelings, This is because i felt like i kept trying to have a balance of my characters emotions and at the same time telling the reader what had happened. And i feel this has created a little tension and so i need to focus on my character more than anything else | I had started straight at the interview so i got straight to the point.This enabled me to not only stay within my word limit but had also created an atmosphere which i could start from | I feel like despite having an atmosphere to work from i feel i didn’t take advantage of this properly and hence despite...
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...The monologue from Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues I have chosen to write about is “My Angry Vagina”. In this monologue, the woman Ensler interviewed talked about all the ways the vagina is treated unjustly. I believe what this woman is trying to express in this monologue is that the vagina is simply misunderstood. There are ways that feminine products and routinely doctors’ visits can be improved if only people took the time to get to know the anatomy of the vagina, what makes women feel uncomfortable, and what makes them feel like they can trust someone or something with the most precious part of their bodies. I will explain why some women feel anger, stress, and fear by the way female genitalia is treated and I will conclude by explaining...
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...Kent’s antagonist, Agnes. The reader is first introduced to Agnes in the letter from Blondal which describes the crimes for which she is to be executed. This introduction forces the reader to already have prejudgment about the character. Kent then goes on to use third person narrative to portray the prejudices of the other character’s perspectives of Agnes as a hardened criminal or monster. Kent utlilises these opinions of Agnes in order to start to further develop her character in the readers minds. For example, when Margaret deliberates,...
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...‘John Godber’s ‘Teecher’s is a play that can both entertain and educate the audience at the same time.’ The play “Teecher’s” is about three school pupils putting on a play about what their old school (Whitewall) used to be like, throughout the play we are following the three characters Gail (played by Nicole Black), Salty (played by Jacob Addely) and Hobby (played by Donna Preston) who also played all of the teachers and the rest of the students, the effect of multi role makes the audience concentrate more on the play, because it makes the audience think more about what’s going on in each scene as there is a lot to take in with each different character . This is effective because it makes the audience think about what is going on and figure out which characters the actors are playing by use of gestures and change in voice. John Godber wrote this play to show how the education system works today and how some people receive a better education system if they are richer but also some people receive a bad education if they can’t afford to go to the richer school, he wrote the play to show that every pupil has potential to be great, but some don’t get the opportunity because of their financial situation and it’s not fair to the disadvantaged students. The play was a play within a play, this means that the actors were putting on a play about students putting on a play, this worked well because it meant that the audience were more interested in what was happening on stage because...
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...Who Said It Better? Julius Caesar, a play driven by persuasion, is known for rhetorical devices used by many prominent characters to sway one another. The use of rhetorical devices can be seen in the monologues of Marc Antony and Brutus during Caesar’s funeral. Though both executed rhetorical devices well, Marc Antony’s use of emotions made his monologue more successful in convincing and riling the crowds. He uses his sympathy, strategy and devices to his advantage. To begin, Marc Antony’s speech was more personal and emotional rather than cold and rehearsed. He opens his speech with, “Friends, Romans and Working men…”(Shakespeare.3.2). Marc Antony uses this opening to join everyone together. Unlike Brutus, who is speaking above the crowd,...
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...One of the most monumental scenes from the movie, Good Will Hunting, includes a monologue spoken by a main character, Sean Maguire. Sean is a therapist that is trying to get through to a mathematical prodigy with a presumptuous and arrogant attitude. Sean is able to alter Will’s perspective by using allusions, emotions, parallelism and tone, while at the same time, establish a sense of respect for himself. An important part of the monologue spoken by Robin William’s character, Sean Maguire, is the purpose that the monologue itself serves. Maguire wants Will Hunting, a character played by a young Matt Damon, to understand that although he is a natural genius and basically a walking encyclopedia, he hasn’t experienced everything. Maguire uses...
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...Macbeth begins to re-establish his role as the stereotypical male throughout Act 3 scene 2. During this scene he is clearly taking overall control of the situation and ordering Lady Macbeth in what he wants her to do during their dinner that night which Banquo would attend. ‘Give Banquo your special attention. Talk to him and look at him in a way that will make him feel important. We’re in a dangerous situation, where we have to flatter him and hide our true feelings.’ This quote shows the role reversal between the beginning of the play in which Lady Macbeth was manipulating her husband and using her power to overrule his word. Although this wasn’t stereotypical during the Jacobean era, Macbeth obeyed her commands which lead him to murdering...
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...least two of: characterisation, imagery, word choice, tone, or any appropriate feature. One poem that deals with a imaginary person is 'Porphyria's Lover' by Robert Browning. The poem, in the form of a monologue, depicts a scene surrounding two lovers, with the main focus on Porphyria throughout the first thirty lines, and then on her lover in the second thirty lines. This portrays a sense of dominance of Porphyria in the first half of the poem, and conveys the speaker as submissive and victimised. Throughout the poem, Browning displays effective uses of various poetic techniques to give a convincing portrayal of the speaker - he presents himself as a victim, then suddenly murders Porphyria, with the expectation that the reader will have no objections, that the act is perfectly acceptable. The poem begins with a romantic portrayal of the lovers, and the central thematic concern appears to be love; however as the poem progresses, it becomes clear that the theme is power. This becomes more apparent as the poem goes on, with the abrupt change of mood in the change from the first half to the second half of the poem. Using this change, among other features, Browning skilfully makes use of various poetic techniques to portray the personality of the speaker and makes use of the monologue form to do so also. One of the main features of the poem that conveys the personality of the speaker is Browning's use of rhyme and rhythm. The regular rhyme scheme ABABB throughout the poem creates...
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