Ciara Loga Acting Minor Monologue Experience 3-24-12 When I first found out we were going to be doing monologues in class I thought to myself, ugh something else I have to remember but it got a little better as the days went by. We started looking in books with all different monologues in them and knew I had to find a funny one because everyone always did dramatic ones because they were easier. Also because I did not want our presentation days to be all depressing, you had to laugh at a couple…
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Choose two poems of your choice and discuss how Browning uses dramatic monologues to present his characters. ‘Will’t please you sit and look at her?’ Dramatic monologue is a poem that has a fictional narrator; character and setting that represents the main characters point of view. The objective of the monologue is to reveal not the poet’s own thoughts but the mind of the lead character of the poem, the speaker. Dramatic Monologue was used frequently by Robert Browning in all his poems. Two of these…
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Monologue Comparison Assignment The two monologue, “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning and “Once More Into the Breach” by William Shakespeare, are both trying to convey a specific message. While Henry, the speaker, in “Once More Into the Breach” tries to paint the big picture to encourage his soldiers on how they should fight the battle with honor as noble Englishmen. “Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit. To his full height. On, on, you noblest English. Whose blood is fet from…
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firstly split my monologue into units. I used this Stanislavski technique of splitting the monologue where there was a change in the characters motive or emotion. This helped with this piece as it helped me identify which character was speaking. This helped me develop each individual character instead of just focusing on Harry. I ended up using almost 30 different units in the monologue which helped me address each characters objectives and motives. It is a challenging monologue because I had to…
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times did they use a spotlight when the narrator attempted to recite his monologue, being interrupted with either a slap from another actor or being given a hug with a long pause, creating an awkward humour in the audience. This repetition enforced to the audience that what the narrator had to say was important as he managed to say a section more of the monologue each time he tried. This spot light managed to break the fourth wall of the Proscenium stage and reinforced that narrator’s communication with…
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Castle is a breathtaking monologue sequencing the unbelievable events in the life of Jeannette Walls. The family starts their journey on the western coast of the country, hopping around to many different cities and towns; evidently landing in the rural desert. Jeanette and her siblings find themselves having many different adventures. Geo-stone collections, foraging for food, claiming planets for your future generations, these memories are something they will never forget. The Walls family suddenly starts…
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volition. [carves V into poster on wall] V: (Faster, more powerful) The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. [giggles] V: (Slow) Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434409/quotes With a monologue as intricate as this one comes…
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The synthesis of poetic form, allusion, light symbolism, and juxtaposition completes the dramatic monologue. From one side, Prufrock represents a man willing to rebel and to fight for romantic feelings, inner passion of a complaisant, respectful, and loyal modern man. From the other side, he is pretended, indecisive, and tongue-tied person realizing his…
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Eb Hayes Explore the ways that Robert Browning tells the story in ‘My Last Duchess’. (21 marks) The narrator, the Duke of Ferrara, in the dramatic monologue ‘My Last Duchess’, is speaking of his former deceased lover, whom is illustrated and reminisced from a portrait hung in his household. The dramatic monologue contains themes of dominance, control and corruption, apparent when he divulges his annoyance of his last duchess’s sincere pleasure with all within the world which he considered an insult…
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Gcse monologue script Back story for performance The year is 1914 and World War 1 has just begun and Eric's parents blame him for Eva/Daisy's death, Eric is suffering from extreme depression after loss of Eva (and his unborn child) whom he knows as Daisy, he was able to scrape enough together to pay of the debt and unable to cope with the situation in England has bought a small ocean side cottage where he lives with squalor and clinical depression coupled with his constant alcohol abuse. * indicates…
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