The Vagina Monologues is made up of a varying number of monologues read by a varying number of women initially‚ Eve Ensler (the author of the Vagina Monologues performed every monologue herself‚ with subsequent performances featuring three actresses‚ and more recent versions featuring a different actress for every role. Every monologue somehow relates to the vagina‚ be it through sex‚ love‚ rape‚ menstruation‚ mutilation‚ masturbation‚ birth‚ orgasm‚ the variety of names for the vagina‚ or simply
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Duchess herself and her despicable behavior of being too easily impressed‚ treating everyone equally‚ and everyone liking her so much. He claims she flirted with everyone and did not fully appreciate his “gift of nine-hundred-years-old name”. As the monologue goes on‚ “[he] gave commands; / Then all smiles stopped together.” and the reader is informed that the Duke was the one who caused his wife’s early death‚ due to his possessiveness‚ dominancy and jealousy. After this is all over‚ the Duke continues
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In Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s lover‚ as well as Elizabeth Bowen’s Demon lover‚ the protagonists embark upon the hero’s quest in order to resolve their internal conflict towards being the cause or victim of obsessive and overwhelming emotions. The first stage is the call to adventure where the hero‚ in their everyday normal life‚ receives a calling‚ either metaphorical or literal‚ where he or she has to answer to conflict. In
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Both poems “Hazel tells LaVerne” by Katharyn Hown Machan and “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning uses unique ways to reveal the speakers. The speakers of each poem reveal something about themselves as they try to narrate a story. The speaker of the “Hazel tells LaVerne” story repeats the line “me a princess‚” indicating that her bluster is just a front for her dreams. The word choice and humorous tone of Machan’s story also reveal much about Hazel’s personality and position. The ways she uses
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The vagina monologue is an episodic play written and starred by Eve Ensler. The play is made up of several personal monologues that touched subjects such as sex‚ love‚ body image‚ birth‚ and orgasms and even hair. Ensler interviews a variety of women from different ages‚ ethnicities‚ races‚ social classes‚ and many other identities. Each story provided different perspectives and responses on vaginas. The play enhances the empowerment a vagina is to a female. The lightning of the stage and use of
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The Vagina Monologues is a compilation of monologues written by Eve Ensler in which all the monologues deal with the vagina. It includes everything women around the world deal with whether it is humorous‚ tragic or disturbing. Including sex‚ rape‚ menstruation‚ masturbation‚ orgasm‚ even the comfort level women have with their own body. Some have stated that The Vagina Monologues has been celebrated as the bible for a new generation of women. I would have to agree with such a statement. Yes‚ in part
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saluting enthusiastically to their red-robed leaders under the yellow star; the boat crammed with coughing throats and calloused hands; blood washed away by the rains. She talked about things I had only ever heard about from the kind of tragic monologues that hot-shot actors won Oscars for and only shed real tears for at the podium. But unlike the performers’ melodramatic shouts of magniloquent misdirected emotion and the onion tears I associated with this kind of language‚ she seemed perfectly
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than simply saying ’woman’ or ’wife’. The story is about a Duke who decides to remove his wife from his life out of paranoia and jealousy‚ by murdering her. Browning is the writer and the listener‚ the Duke is the speaker and the story is told in a dramatic monologe. Another device I noticed is that Browning uses enjambment‚ this gives the poem rhythm and flow. To introduce the story‚ in the first sentence he hints towards death. Describing the Duchess‚ "looking as if she was alive." In a Fresco painting
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Dramatic Intro Flashing lights were blinding my vision‚ and emergency sirens were screaming in my ears‚ both making it hard to process the situation I was in. I looked around praying to find something familiar that could possibly give me guess as to what was happening‚ but was interrupted by sharp creaking of a metal door‚ which robbed my attention. I looked towards the direction the sound was coming from and was shocked to see the face of a man‚ I tried moving but couldn’t. Confused I asked him
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1. What was this poem’s expressive purpose? The poem’s expressive purpose is to explain to the Count’s servant why he‚ the Duke‚ doesn’t have a Duchess anymore. The first line of the poem‚ “That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall‚ looking as if she were alive‚” hints of the last Duchess’s death and the rest of the poem elaborates on the complete story of the last Duchess. Throughout the poem‚ we discover that the main reason for the last Duchess’s disappearance was because the Duke felt threatened
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