These poems were written as dramatic monologues. This literary form is meant to show the reader the narrator’s most inner thoughts during a dramatic situation, therefore the reader can explore the abnormal psychology involved in the two acts of murder. Before the murders, both men are shown to be dangerously possessive of their women. In “Porphyria’s Lover” and “My Last Duchess there is only one point of view. This view is expressed throughout the poems and the reoccurring theme is murder as they both show the idea of men killing a lover.
The story of this poem perhaps has a historical allusion: a reference to a similar occurrence in history (including the duke of ferrara). The duke is speaking to envoy his first wife who is apparently dead. From what he is telling him, we can conclude that he is arrogant, domineering and very insecure in relationships. “There she stands as if alive”. He tells the agent that she looks as she was alive and her smiles stopped at his command, which would be seen as a direct admission of murder.
The play “Macbeth” by Shakespeare shows that in extract one Macbeth reacts to death with regret because of his loyalties to the lifeless Duncan. He faces danger in this extract in a fearful and indecisive manner when he felt being found out as the killer of Duncan was too much. Extract two shows that Macbeth becomes distant when the death becomes more personal, such as the death of his wife. Macbeth faces danger of the approaching army with acceptance and eagerness. Macbeth’s character begins to change after the murder of Duncan, and in the early term of his rein.
This is the seed from which the whole tragedy of Macbeth grows from. Macbeth contemplates the witches’ words and soon ends up acting upon them. The next key event in the downfall of Macbeth is when he agrees to kill the current king. He is persuaded by his wife that this is a necessary ingredient in becoming king himself. After killing Duncan, he begins to lose his sanity slightly.
After reading the interview with Gabriel García Márquez, I have a newfound respect for both the writer and his novel. It simply amazes me to hear a first hand account of the life experiences, influences, and thought processes of a creative intellectual mind. I truly liked his contrast of being a journalist and a novelist. Márquez states, “In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work… A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.” The different standards in which we hold our authors are fascinating, and how one single detail or aspect could make the most positive impact in a certain piece, and the most negative in another.
The over all feel throughout the poem is a wonderful contrast to other of Robert Frost’s poems, which is another thing I particularly enjoyed. The theme through the poem is the realization that death is so quick and so sudden, and another is that people treat human life like it is worthless. This statement is attributed to the end when the doctors know they cannot save his life, then just shrug it off like nothing happened and continue on their day. The poem is mostly of the snarling buzz saw and the boys basically acceptance that he is going to die. He doesn’t want to go to the doctors because he wants to maintain dignity through his dead body by being buried with both hands.
The novel can be described from many points of view and I call these points layers of the novel. The novel is very edifying and also readable, moreover, it gives very important messages to the humankind. Sir William Gerald Golding (1911 – 193) Life Sir William Gerald Golding was an English novelist, poet and playwright. He was awarded Nobel Prize in literature. William was born in Newquay near Cornwall.
The narrator confesses the sole reason for killing the old man is his eye: "Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees - very gradually - I made up my mind to rid myself of the eye forever" (34). The narrator begins his tale of betrayal by trying to convince the reader he is not insane, but the reader quickly assumes the narrator indeed is out of control. The fact that the old man's eye is the only motivation to murder proves the narrator is beyond mentally unstable that he must search for justification to kill. In his mind, he justifies murder with his own irrational fear of the eye. The narrator wrestles with conflicting feelings of responsibility to the old man and feelings of ridding his life of the man's "Evil Eye" (34).
In our book death is talking to us, but in this poem the guy is talking to death. In the book death doesn’t like his job, but in the poem death is very proud of what he is doing. The narrators in both the book and poem don’t kill us we do it to ourselves. The poem states that death has no power over eternal life. Well in the present day it’s the same.
Upon his return to London, he is told by Mrs. Lovett that the Judge raped his wife and adopted his child. Todd believed his family to be waiting for him, but instead he goes into an unexpected state of shock and mourning. He believes that his wife is dead from poisoning herself, and must immediately move on. From a psychological standpoint, Todd is completely justified in his obsession. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders, “Important life transitions and mourning may lead to an intensification of ritual behavior that may appear to be an obsession” (“Obsessive Compulsive Disorder”).