Duke of Gloucester Essays

A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed The best friendships to have are those that help you develop your emotions towards yourself and others. In William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, the disposition of two significant characters are evidently displayed to demonstrate the true qualities of friendship. Firstly, Romeo’s cousin and friend, Benvolio demonstrates that he surpasses Mercutio as a friend because he comforts Romeo in his times of need. Secondly, Benvolio shows that he is capable of defending

In the late 1600’s, Salem, Massachusetts was flooded with witch hysteria. This was based on the Puritan religion, which was taking the Bible verbatim. For this reason, there was no hard proof, but rather spectral evidence. A multitude of citizens was falsely accused and used as scapegoats to save oneself's. In The Crucible Elizabeth Proctor happens to be one of the many people who gets thrown under the bus. Elizabeth Proctor is an innocent woman with good morals, her accuser (Abigail Williams) is

January 1972 in Gloucester, England, Fred West and Rosemary “Rose” Letts were secretly married. In June of that same year Rose gave birth to their second daughter. The growing family moved to a new home, 25 Cromwell Street, which was much larger than their previous home. The new home had enough rooms for all their children, space for renters, and even a cellar that was used as a torture chamber. This new family home also had rooms fitted with peepholes for Fred to watch while his wife Rose was working

What do you think when you hear, ¨If you are not mine, you are no one´s¨? This story is about how love turned into death, and how a man is capable of anything for a woman to ¨love¨ him. Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was a popular nineteenth-century French writer. Maupassant is considered one of the fathers of modern short story. The majority of his stories are related to the people that died on the Franco-Russian war, and war itself. His short stories are based on how people lived at the

Vengeance vs. Virtue The play The Tempest, by Shakespeare, explores the values of vengeance and forgiveness through the story of Prospero. The main conflict of the story is Prospero's lack of forgiveness for his brother Antonio, who stole his throne. This causes him to seek vengeance on Antonio and all his allies. Through the events of the story, it is evident that there is more value in virtue compared to vengeance. The action of vengeance does not resolve the original issue and in fact, creates

Robert Browning 's poem "My Last Duchess" portrays a Duke 's emotional state toward his late wife. The Duke expresses his feelings to her realistic painting on the wall. In doing so, this allows enough of her essence and charisma to invoke an emotional response within the speaker. Likewise, the Duke 's response to the painting reveals his feelings toward his wife as well as his own character. The opening lines of the poem, “That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, looking as if she were alive

Elizabeth glared at Rocking, though it was of more playful annoyance rather than hostility. "Well, never in my life have I been compared to a cathedral. But I will be taking that as a compliment," she spoke with slight humor lacing her voice. It was minute and a careless listener would have never caught it. But she was certain that Rocking was not a careless listener. Not to give him ideas that she had gone soft, she turned back into her cold, calculated self instantly, maintaining a neutral disposition

Duchess Ferrara, a man angered and saddened by the loss of his duchess, sought the Count’s daughter for a hand in marriage. As the duke walked back to the dining room, he wiped away a growing tear. “Good evening, gentlemen. My apologies for the delay.” The guests continued to mumble amongst their thoughts. “Gentlemen,” stated the duke as he took his seat. The room fell quiet as all eyes turned to Ferrara. He cleared his throat. “I am grateful for you all joining me this evening

beginning of the play. This is because this is where our understanding of the Duke’s character becomes more pronounced, and is a pinnacle point of the plot, where it is learned that the Duke will be abdicating for an unspecified amount of time and is handing his power over to Angelo. During this passage, the Duke also reveals his reasoning behind why he is leaving Vienna behind: matters in the city need to be cleared up, in the fourteen years he has let the Rule of Law slip and become quite lax,

“He (Junot Diaz) conjures with seemingly effortless aplomb the two worlds his characters inhabit: the Dominican Republican the ghost-haunted motherland that shapes their nightmares and their dreams; and America (a.k.a. New Jersey), the land of freedom and hope and not-so-shiny possibilities that they’ve fled to as part of the great Dominican diaspora ”says New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani. Winner of the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for fiction Junot Diaz wrote the The Brief Wondrous Life of

Whenever the Duke is disguised as a friar, he speaks in prose, in opposition of iambic pentameter. The playwright does this to denote to the audience that the Duke is not being authoritative. Since he is trying to stay hidden as an unknown friar, it is in his best interest to not command others around as if he is the Duke. Furthermore, when the Duke is disguised as a friar and Lucio strikes up conversation with him and disrespectfully talks about the Duke, Shakespeare purposefully has the Duke accidentally

why the Duke decided to kill his wife? Why was the relationship between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde so conflicted? Could Shakespeare have made Lady Macbeth less evil? Why is Lady Macbeth so persistent in killing the king even when Macbeth sees no logical reason to follow through with this? The writers of Macbeth, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and My Last Duchess present love as unreliable in all relationships. What the three men have in common is that they murdered someone. Duke killed

from the high-status viewpoint of the duke, as if it was a deserved punishment for the duchess. As seen in the structure of the poem, the duke’s focus rapidly changes from reflecting on her death at the beginning, to quickly finding a new mistress to appease him, often within the same line. This conveys the idea that although the duke is accusing his wife of being ‘too easily impressed’, it is ironic as his focus has changed as quickly as her loyalty for the duke supposedly dissipated. The use of the

John Donne’s poem “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” dramatizes the conflict between one lover’s revelation of beginning a long-distance relationship however, he expresses that nothing will stop the love he has for his lover; Remarkably, “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, conveys a similar message in that there is nothing that can come between two lovers. To begin with, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell sing, “No matter how far don’t worry baby / Just call my name

Throughout Act 1 love is the backbone of the play, with almost every character falling in love or at least falling in love with the idea of love. Twelfth Night gains most of its comical force by satirizing these characters; for example Orsino. Common themes throughout Act 1 are love and desire, melancholy and madness. In Act 1 Scene 1 the play opens with Orsino’s speech which is playful and melancholy, but has abrupt changes of mood “If music be the food of love play on”. This opening line is mostly

Rhetorical Analysis Rhetoric Analysis 1 “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver is a poem about letting things go and appreciating just how simple and beautiful life is. Oliver claims that “You do not have to be good…” and that you only have to “love what [you] love…” meaning that as human being one should enjoy life and live it how he or she sees fit. Oliver continues her poem by convincing the reader that life should not be taken too seriously. By re-using the word, “meanwhile…”Oliver let’s the reader know

"My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning is a poem being told by a Duke who did everything he could to have control in every aspect of his life including politically and socially. He also endeavored to run his marriage the same way as he commanded his territory. The Duke considered anything he came in contact with, be it is materialistic or a human being, as a chance to increase his authority. His thought process was that a wife should be controlled; servants must recognize and obey his power; and elaborate

Robert Browning, author of “My Last Duchess,” is an author with my many characteristics of writing. He depicts the evil in the world and shows the masks that people wear. The trigger for these characteristics in his writing is, “his love affair with Elizabeth Barrett”, which sent him on a journey of drama that ended in his wife’s death (Greenblatt 710). The death of his wife influenced the way Browning wrote. The prominent characteristics that I feel Browning uses in, “My Last Duchess,” is masks

5. “I swear to you, sitting a throne is thousand times harder than winning one…” (Martin 47) Context: This was from the time when King Robert was proposing to Ned to be his hand. And he needed his help so bad because he had difficulties in running his place alone. He said all his bad experiences from being a King. He said these words to Ned because he wanted to compare his experience of winning a throne to his experience of being a king. He further explained the difficulties of his duties to his

Duchess and her wealthy husband, the Duke, during Renaissance Italy. This dramatic monologue begins with the Duke having a conversation with a guest about his elegantly painted portrait of his wife. As the poem advances, it can be found that the guest is in fact the servant of a Count. To be more specific, the Duke’s soon to be father-in-law, as the Duke is going to wed his daughter. All throughout this dramatic monologue, the readers get a true visual of who the Duke truly is and what his attitudes are