Another Domineering Husband “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning is a dramatic monologue that combines elements of both horror and romance about the Duke of Ferrara who is speaking to the envoy of a count from a neighboring court‚ giving him a tour of the castle and its treasures. Although this poem is spoken by one person‚ it is very specifically addressed to someone else. There are at least two points of view inscribed into the poem: the speaker’s and the addressee’s. This is discovered in the
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"too soon made glad" by other men‚ and her smiles to everyone who passed. He describes her as if she was just another distant thing in the past‚ and disregards the painting of her as just another piece of artwork. The poem begins with the Duke of Ferrara introducing the painting to an audience (probably another duke). He begins with how the painting was made‚ and then moves on to how her "heart [was] too easily impressed". As the poem develops‚ the Duke becomes more and more spiteful about his "last
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Duchess." One advantage of using this device is that it allows the speaker’s own words to reveal‚ celebrate‚ or‚ in this case‚ condemn his behavior. The speaker in "My Last Duchess" is the Duke‚ loosely based on the historical figure‚ the Duke of Ferrara whose own young wife died under mysterious circumstances. Browning writes the poem completely from his perspective and voice‚ allowing the reader to draw his or her own conclusions about the Duke’s monologue. In the opening stanza‚ the Duke introduces
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almost anything. he analyses issues of feminism‚ domestic violence‚ and a disorderly structure of Victorian society through his work in “My Last Duchess.” Allingham‚ Philip. “Browning’s Portrait of a Renaissance Man: Alphonso II D’ este‚ Duke of Ferrara‚ in "My Last Duchess.” The Victorian Web. http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/authors/rb/duchess/pva313.html In Robert Browning’s‚ “The Last Duchess‚” his main character‚ the Duke‚ can be described
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Teaching Strategies Applied Effectively in the Classroom In a classroom‚ the teacher is the leader. As such‚ they must take into account which teaching methods would be best to develop their students learning abilities. During my observations at New Hyde Park Memorial High School‚ I was able to witness a wide array of teaching strategies. For this paper‚ I will choose specific methods‚ and discuss how certain teachers used them effectively within the classroom. First‚ I will discuss how the modeling
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Duchess" is a poem by Robert Browning‚ frequently anthologized as an example of the dramatic monologue. It first appeared in 1842 in Browning’s Dramatic Lyrics. The poem is set during the late Italian Renaissance. The speaker (presumably the Duke of Ferrara) is giving the emissary of his prospective new wife (presumably a third or fourth since he Browning could have easily written ’second’ but did not do so) a tour of the artworks in his home. He draws a curtain to reveal a painting of a woman‚ explaining
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the values of the Victorian society? Well‚ the Victorian Era is a period after the Renaissance where people start to question different areas of the aspect of life. One major aspect was dominance of men. As seen through My Last Duchess‚ the Duke of Ferrara is portrayed as a condescending figure who has a very possessive and controlling nature through the quote “The curtain I have drawn for you” we see the Duke’s action as being inordinately possessive: no-one but he draws the curtain over the portrait;
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albinism‚ there is a one-in-four chance at each pregnancy the baby will be born with albinism. According to Ferrara in the United States‚ albinism affects approximately one in 17‚000 people‚ although certain types of albinism are more prevalent among specific groups of people (2010‚ p. 49). In some parts of Africa‚ for instance‚ about one in 1‚000 people experience the condition (Ferrara‚ 2010‚ p. 49). These disorders are generally divided into two forms. Oculocutaneous Albinism(OCA) which
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Kembi‚ Adeyemi English 102 The 1980s Fashion Scene on A Rapid Comeback The 1980’s fashion is back‚ and its success is rooted in the similar economy we have with the 1980s. As a society we are deciding to “wear our personality”‚ rather than our pocket books and the fashion industry is staying alive by following this trend. With the de-regulation of multiple government policies on industries‚ a failing economy‚ record setting recession and the booming crack-cocaine sales on the streets with
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Social Security Reform: Jeopardizing the Safety Net It is not difficult to understand why Social Security is our country’s most popular government program. Prior to its inception in the 1930’s‚ more than half the nation’s elderly lived in poverty. The program was designed as a social (old-age) insurance plan which provides a guaranteed income to retired and disabled workers whose loss of wages promises an uncertain economic future. I emphasize the word guaranteed‚ as this is the issue in contention
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