Dramatic Monologue I before you today, am here to make unapparent the great deed that I did unto others, yourselves and myself in ensuring that justice was fulfilled in the courts earlier this day. Despite the plaintiff deciding to justly and incorrectly recognise me as an ass in front of the entire assembly. I am but many things, but an ass, is both but definitely not and but absolutely not, one of them. I ask for it to be discharged from the books of the holy court that I be once so lawfully referred to as an ass but wish for you all to forget not that I am an ass. I wish to discontinue my speech to you at this time, your noble sirs and notable offenders, and explain to you the mistakeable role I played in locking away the plaintiffs. By my troth, I ask you to praise me presently and henceforth for the important role I have but played. Me thinks but none of this commotion would have occurred but if not for someone so intelligent as I. Alas, the looks on your faces suggest but the same suggestion. Firstly, my most disdignified watchmen, under the orders of the demanding constable… myself, caught the two plaintiffs discussing the adorable deeds that they had earlier committed. To re-examine the magnificence and greatly overlooked cruelty of the deeds that slandered poor, beautiful …poor Hero and humiliated poor, gullible… poor Claudio would be rather foolish and witless of me… so as to discontinue. My outstandingly disdignified watchmen brought the horribly dignified plaintiffs to me. Myself and partner Verges, were but presently taught all of the knowledge that my watchmen attained and rode off to act hastily. Secondly, we arrived disenorderedly by the side of the father of Hero, Leonato. Leonato was also in a unhurried hast and struck us as too disturbed to deal with something involving his daughter. Luckily, we were not predetected by this and marched up to the old chap to explain the predictamence. So pleased the poor soul was to hear our
I wake up in my small bed rolling right off of it, groaning and brush my teeth dragging myself down to the kitchen, not even bothering to brush my brown mane of curly hair or change out of the blue ‘Panic! At the Disco’ jacket that I’ve been wearing for two days straight. I go downstairs to eat breakfast and my ‘loving’ father greets me by yelling at me and saying that I don’t deserve to eat anything. I sigh at my Dad’s fatherly tone and grab my black ‘My Chemical Romance’ beanie that holds down my curly brown locks. I love how my curly bangs hung over my brown eyes. I love looking over the city because it makes me feel like I’m dominating over everyone else. I walk to the city bus. Fancy… There were a lot of people on the bus. There was a smelly fat guy who kept eating
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Alan Bennett's Monologues as Dramas These plays are written for TV rather than theatre and are experimental for different styles of acting with more emphasis being placed on the single actors face. This is in order to show subtle changes in expressions hopefully giving the viewer a more clear insight into the characters feelings. This is more appropriate for "A Cream Cracker…" as it is a moving story, which is portrayed, even more so in the subtle movement of Doris's face "Cracked the photo.
The act takes place in the dining room in a new Birling’s’ house in Sheiffied, in the North Midlands. It is an evening in spring, 1922. The baronial, high-rise house, built by the Scottish workers in the 1560s, that was bought and furnished by Mrs Birling, after her husband’s death, has an enormous amount of rooms and a spacious dining room with a large, wooden table. At the rise of the curtain, all the characters are seated at the table, as the tea has just started and everyone is talking.
William Shakespeare had a unique way of moving his story along. Instead of making what happens next in a story blatant and obvious, he would incorporate different symbols and new characters to send messages to both the reader and the characters in the story. In one of his most famous plays, “Macbeth” the main character whom the story is named after is visited by three examples of these symbols, foreshadowing the rest of the play, as well as providing somewhat of a flashback to what has been read to enable the reader to see a previous event in a new light as the story progresses.
Good afternoon fellow HSC students my name is Mr Zec from the University of Wollongong and I’m here to talk about the play The Shifting Heart and the related text Hospital Evening. The Shifting Heart is a play written in 1957 by Richard Beynon, and it is set in Collingwood in Melbourne. The scene consists of an untidy backyard with a large garbage can, the right fence has barbed wire running across it and the left fence is broken with rusty nails in it. It takes place at the afternoon of Christmas Eve to the morning of Christmas day. Throughout the play the language used is usually either stereotypical Australian or Italian.
Hamlet is a famous play created by an amazing writer, William Shakespeare. The original play is set in Denmark and is based on the revenge Prince Hamlet has upon Claudius. The plot of the play induces dramatic irony, and context that targets its Elizabethan audience who are consumed of social values and perspectives. In act 4 Hamlet states:
'A View from the Bridge' is a play set in Brooklyn in the 1940s. The
I’m Freda Josephine Baker born to Carrie McDonald and Eddie Carson on June 3rd, 1906, in St. Louis, Missouri, but most of you may know me as Josephine Baker. At the age of 12 I dropped out of school to become an entertainer, yes yes, I remember it like it was yesterday, I was young and ready to become a star. I grew up cleaning houses and babysitting for white families, and they always reminded me “be sure not to kiss the baby”. When I was 13, I got a waitressing job at the Chauffeur’s Club, which was where I met my first husband, our marriage was very brief; I had never hesitated to leave anyone, never depended on any man for anything, that’s for sure.
Often times when we think about the dramatic monologue the thing that might come to mind are monologues that are often seen in Shakespeare’s work whether that be Hamlet’s monologue To Be or Not to Be. Or the dramatic monologue that is echoed in Romeo and Juliet when Juliet cries out, Romeo, Romeo, Wherefore Art Thou Romeo? The dramatic monologue is defined as a type of poem where the speaker is talking directly to a person or addressing another person. Normally in these types of works the speaker speaks alone which is known as a one-way conversation. The setting is typically dramatic, in the sense that they have a theatrical feel to them, but also its intended to be read to an audience.
Toha, your mum is concerned about you not playing with your peers. I noticed you initially enjoyed playing by yourself when you first started at Jump Start, but now your sense of belonging has grown you are starting to play more and more with others. Recently I have noticed you are playing regularly with Riley, Lexi, and Jocab, who also enjoy engaging in dramatic play.
The narrator is the person telling the story and can range from one to several, within a single story. How the author develops the narration will direct how their work is perceived by the reader. The narrator can present the story reliably or dishonestly, from a compelling view to an ironic view. The author can lose or gain pertinent information simply by changing the narration. Narration is a guide for the reader “…it requires the invention of a narrator,” Diane Middlebook said, “who serves as a contemporary guide to the materials of the book…” (Middlebrook). The narrator of a story is fundamental to the reader’s understanding and, any changes to the narration can change the stories understanding entirely.
The only characters to soliloquize in Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet are King Claudius and Prince Hamlet, the latter delivering seven notable soliloquies with much psychological content. However, the psychological dimension of others is presented.
In writing Hamlet, William Shakespeare plumbed the depths of the mind of the protagonist, Prince Hamlet, to such an extent that this play can rightfully be considered a psychological drama.
When discussing the poetic form of dramatic monologue it is rare that it is not associated with and its usage attributed to the poet Robert Browning. Robert Browning has been considered the master of the dramatic monologue. Although some critics are skeptical of his invention of the form, for dramatic monologue is evidenced in poetry preceding Browning, it is believed that his extensive and varied use of the dramatic monologue has significantly contributed to the form and has had an enormous impact on modern poetry. "The dramatic monologues of Robert Browning represent the most significant use of the form in postromantic poetry" (Preminger and Brogan 799). The dramatic monologue as we understand it today "is a lyric poem in which the speaker addresses a silent listener, revealing himself in the context of a dramatic situation" (Murfin 97). "The character is speaking to an identifiable but silent listener at a dramatic moment in the speaker's life. The circumstances surrounding the conversation, one side which we "hear" as the dramatic monologue, are made by clear implication, and an insight into the character of the speaker may result" (Holman and Harmon 152).