Last words

‘My Last Duchess’ by Robert Browning is a dramatic monologue in which the Duke of Ferrara is discussing the matter of a dowry with an emissary sent by a Count. The use of dramatic monologue allows the poet to subtly reveal the personality of the persona to the reader. The language used by the speaker allows the poet to evoke strong emotions in the reader. The reader is given an early insight into the personality of the Duke in the very first line of the monologue: ‘That’s my last Duchess

Whether or not he had a hand in Titus’s death, Domitian did not wait for his brother to die. He quickly returned to Rome and the Praetorian camp to be proclaimed emperor. Mystery, however, surrounded the last minutes before Titus’s death. There is some disagreement on the meaning of Titus’s last words: “I have made but one mistake.” Suetonius wrote he “gazed up at the sky, and complained bitterly that life was being undeservedly taken from him, since a single sin lay on his conscience.” He added, “…

The Destiny Universe is Full of lore or backstory of the Game. The Lore i'm going to talk about today is The Last Word. I will also include part of of Dredgen Yor and the Thorn. This is the story of the Last Word                     Chapter 1 : The Last Word The Last Word starts with a Hunter by the name of Jared Ward. Jared Ward was the wielder of the famous Last Word hand cannon, destroyed by the infamous Dredgen Yor . His story starts in a small village outside of the city. It’s in this Village

what his last words were. For a normal person in a normal situation, you would think this would not be so hard to do. However, Marlow knows that Kurtz was, to put it blankly,insane. His last words, which should fall as a dicription of the morbid book, were: "The Horror, Oh the Horror!" Marlow is faced with the pressing assignment of telling these words, which he alone had heard, to the women who loved Kurtz. I Believe Marlow would have told the women about the truth of Kurtz's last words, had it not

‘Last Words to Miriam' – An Interpretation Submitted By: Jeet Kumar Gupta 2001115 D. H. Lawrence's Son's and Lover's is a study of human relationships. Gertrude Morel, because of her turbulent and odd relationship with her husband, ends up developing deep emotional relations with her two eldest sons'. The second eldest in particular, Paul, is the receiver of most of this deep emotion. Because of these feelings and the deeper-than-usual emotional bond between the two, Paul has difficulty being

"I want to ask you one question....what do you think your last words will be? I'm being serious. When you're about to die, what do you think you will say before it happens? Telling your spouse you love them? A few comforting words to your loved ones and friends? A kind statement to a stranger, or a quick prayer for salvation? What if I told you that your last words would be a strange laugh, or saying profanities towards someone, or even making plans or promises that you know you won't be able to

him, but he committed some actions while in Africa that she would not be too proud of. Therefore, Marlow lied to her about Kurtz’s last words to protect her thought of Kurtz. Along with that, he also lied because he may have figured that she would not understand, and he did not want to take away the last positive aspect of Kurtz. Greedy and cruel are words that can describe Kurtz while he was in Africa (Zhao). He had a lot of power and fame because he was the finest at collecting the

The novel Every Last Word written by Tamara Ireland Stone is a beautiful, realistic portrayal of OCD and anxiety disorders of a 16 year old girl, named Samantha McAllister. It grabs the reader from the very first page and does not let them go. Every Last Word tells the story of a high school junior Samantha-Sam. She suffers from Purely-Obsessional OCD, but does not want anyone to find out about it. She is a part of a group of popular girls, the “Crazy Eights”, her so called friends, she has known

     In Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad presents the character of Kurtz as a man who is seen differently by all who know him depending on their individual experiences with him. His cousin knew him as a man with great musical talent, others knew him as a great leader, and his “Intended” fiance knew him as an admirable humanitarian; but all of these knew him to be a remarkable genius. When the narrator, Marlow, first hears of him, he is told that Kurtz is known as a great

Grendel’s last words “Poor Grendel’s had an accident…. So may you all” is seen as a curse placed upon mankind and the animals who watched him die. Basically this means that grendel had faced his faith, his “accident”, so will all mankind and the animals who will have an “accident” as well. “Animals gather around me, enemies of old, to watch me die (Gardner 12).” The animals who were his first enemies and have all gathered around where he was so they would make him understand how it was like to watch