My Last Duchess Essay

The theme in the three stories Macbeth, My Last Duchess, and Pride and Prejudice is destructive love and the cause of the destruction is a struggle for a hand in the relationship causing it to fail. What makes a relationship fail and become destructive? In Macbeth, the cause of destruction that tore their relationship apart was ambition. Macbeth was loyal to his wife, Lady Macbeth and he did everything she demanded him to do, but when Lady Macbeth tells him to throw away his loyalty to the King of

The play closes with Delio, Antonio's best friend, coming on stage right after Bosola, the Cardinal, and Ferdinand have all killed each other. He's brought in the only living son of Antonio and the Duchess, and ends the play by saying, “… Let us make noble use/Of this great ruin; and join all our force/To establish this young hopeful gentleman /In's mother's right. …Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end." (5.5.109-115, 119-120). Sounds very optimistic

The Young Years of Queen Victoria Victoria was born on a spring day, May 24th, 1819, at Kensington Palace, in the then quiet suburb of London. "Plumb as a partridge" was her father's description of the baby, and she certainly bore a marked resemblance to her sturdy and robust Hanoverian ancestors who had ruled Great Britain for little more than a century at the time of her birth. By 1798 Victoria's grandfather, King George III, had reigned for nearly sixty years, but he was now old and feeble

feeling it left behind can NEVER be forgotten. Through this point of view we will discuss many feelings experienced by many poets that inspired them to write their poems the way they wrote it. Poems are: Poem at Thirty-Nine by: “Alice Walker”, My Last Duchess by: “Robert Browning”, A Mother in a Refugee Camp by: “Chinua Achebe”, Apsalm of Life by: “Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, The Broken Heart by: “John Donne”, The Sick Rose by: “William Blake”. Alice Walker in Poem at Thirty-Nine was overwhelmed

Compare the way in which poets create a threatening or menacing atmosphere in four poems. Write about Salome by Carol Ann Duffy and compare it with one poem from Simon Armitage and two from the pre 1914 bank. The poem ‘Salome’, by Carol Ann Duffy, is written in the first person, seemingly from the perspective of a woman given indicators such as the fact that the person has been involved intimately with a man; ‘the reddish beard’. The first three lines of the poem, all of which uses enjambment

Capulet as a patriarchal ruler who is not afraid to show his controlling side. His aggression is key aspect in the play and becomes a catalyst for the outcome of our “star crossed lovers”. I will also examine the exertion of power in the poems “My Last Duchess”, “Hawk Roosting” and “Human Interest”. Firstly, I will begin with examining the theme of force in Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”. The first key scene to consider is act one scene on in which a battle between the Capulets and Montagues occurs

by Alice Walker, “Mother in a Refugee Camp” by Chinua Achebe, “Sonnet 116” by William Shakespeare, “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning, and “Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night” by Dylan Thomas? This essay will explore the theme of relationships in the poems “Poem At Thirty Nine” by Walker, “Mother in a Refugee Camp” by Achebe, “Sonnet 116” by Shakespeare, “Remember” by Rossetti, “My Last Duchess” by Browning, and “Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night” by Thomas. While the first three poems

Women play a compelling part in the play Richard III. On one hand, they can be viewed of as vulnerable and weak as they base their lives on the power and deeds of the men. However, their curses appear to have a prophetic ability. In a way women are the possessions of the men who be wed with them, nevertheless the women advance themselves with absolute emotive potency. The women produce much of the spiritual strength behind the political activities of the play. Paying attention to the men solely we

After being recognized as an exceptional writer, Timothy Findley published the novel Famous Last Words in 1981. Findley is known for his novels featuring “many themes…including war, displacement, and emotional repression” (Quill and Quire 1). Although Findley’s works contain these specific themes, are the narrators of these novels reliable? Usually “A narrative normally begins with an Orientation, introducing and identifying the participants in the action: the time, the place, and the initial behavior”

Out of all the short stories read in class, my favorite was “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” Joyce Carol Oates’s story was my favorite because of her terrifying antagonist Arnold Friend. The way that Arnold Friend convinces Connie to get into his car even though she knows she will be putting her life in severe danger is chilling. I also really appreciated that Oates allows the audience to form their own opinions on the plot of the story. For example, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You