...THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST AS A MONOLOGUE MONOLOGUE: A monologue is presented by a single character, most often to express the mental thoughts aloud, sometimes also to directly address another character or the audience. Monologues are common in dramatic media as well as in non-dramatic media such as poetry. Monologues share much in common with several other literary devices including soliloquies and apostrophes. DEVICE OF MONOLOGUE IN THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST: This is probably the only novel of its kind, a novel with no lyrical descriptions of people and places. It has no dialogue at all; in fact, the entire novel is a long, gripping monologue. A novel in the form of a monologue and without a dialogue is a brilliant and novel idea, and it works magnificently in this case only because Mohsin Hamid is a superb writer with formidable powers. He grips the reader's mind with polished and haunting prose. The hero of the novel, Changez, a student from Lahore, Pakistan, attends Princeton University. After graduation at the top in his class, he secures an excellent and well-paying job at the elite valuation firm Underwood Samson. He becomes well-adjusted and well-accustomed to the American way of life, falls in love with the beautiful and elegant, Princeton-educated Erica, who hails from an aristocratic family. For the first time in his life Changez is happy. Then, unexpectedly, on September 11, 2001...
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...novels, Roy and Faulkner embed a deeper meaning within them with the use of a subtle and discreet narrative manner, such as stream of consciousness and interior monologues. This is particularly true in As I Lay Dying, a novel of a dysfunctional and unstable family told through fragmented chapters. Each character reveals their perspective in different chapters, but the perspectives are true to life in that they all reveal information about the Bundren family and their struggles to exist. Although stream of consciousness proves to be prevalent in the progression of the plots, a series of flashbacks and flashforwards unfold the secrets of these characters' unhappiness. Through the use of literary devices such as stream of consciousness, interior monologue and analepsis and prolepsis, Roy and Faulkner allow for the flow of impressions coming through a character’s mind to be represented on the surface. Outline: I. Stream of Consciousness A. As I Lay Dying 1. Faulkner imitates the way the human brain works; the progression of thoughts passing through the mind as they occur represents a selective omniscience a. I am I and you are you and I know it and you dont know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me and Darl" (51). 2. Faulkner’s stream of consciousness is different from the common stream of consciousness because he has a unifying...
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...women were in Vagina monologue and in The Laramie Project both disturbed me because I know people who could relate to both topics. Both are very close friend of mine. Starting off with Vagina Monologue the story that affected me the most was the situation with the girl who couldn’t speak English so she couldn’t tell her parents what actually happened so they assumed and treated her like she was washed up and a disgrace. She did nothing wrong and they were very wrong to assume without having and kind of communication with her. Not even to ask if she was okay being that they did think she was sexually abused. My friends Mom accused her of having sexual relations with her boyfriend which was totally gross!!! She didn’t want to hear her daughters side of the story so she just ------ her out. There was absolutely no communication going on what so ever and assumptions could go so far as to destroying something that means so much to you for no reason. Another part of the Vagina Monologue that made me think of a friend was when the girl was disgusted with her vagina!!!! She thought it was gross and she didn’t even want it… It reminded me of a girl I know who is gay, she hates her private part. She hates to acknowledge it and doesn’t even like to clean herself. She’s cried to me numerous times about it and I was speechless because I felt the vagina was a part of a woman’s body that should be embraced. (Quote) The one part of the vagina Monologue that I enjoyed reading...
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...Monologue Motivation&Positivity Hello Mr Sexson, this is my monologue for the aelp speaking course 2014-02-13 I’m gonna do a monologue on positivity and how I personally keep myself motivated So I pretty much summarized these tips into like 3 main principles. I hope that you enjoy this monologue and lets get started. 1.KEEP YOURSELF IN A POSITIVE ENVIRONMENT So the first thing is to make sure you’re in a positive environment/positive atmosphere where you are sleeping,where youre working and living. That could be like Your appartment, your room, your desk and office space. It’s important to make sure that you are enjoying being in that space, so – is it clean?is it organized? Does it look aesthetically pleasing? I personally like to keep everthing organized and clean , and I feel like that just makes everything look prettier so then when I’m walking by s.th. I’m like „oh that looks really nice!“ It makes you feel better when you’re in a space that is aesthetically pleasing,right? So maybe put flowers in your room if you want to, put a nice colour on the wall or put quotes around you,put pictures of your family and friends around you – just make your space beautiful and positive! And that also goes for music like listen to good music, music always makes me feel good, so I always like to have music on. And if you have anything thats like negative in your room whether that be like a picture of someone that you maybe dont get along with...
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...to seek who was wrong or right in Crown Heights, but to uncover the deep-seated hatred that occurs in this country. The truth may never be revealed but the audience is able to understand that the reasons for the rage in Crown Heights are more than just the Gavin Cato case of Yankel Rosenbaum’s murder. Anna Deveare Smith’s method of finding the truth in peoples stories lies in their syntax. The stutters and the “um’s” give the audience a better understanding of the character because in those stammers and pauses we, even for a moment, see some truth. Although it may help us understand where people are coming from, we still have no definite answer for why things ended up the way they did in Crown Heights. For example, in the monologue titled, Static, a Jewish woman says, “ I saw a little boy in the neighborhood, who I didn’t know and who didn’t know me—not Jewish, he was black and he wasn’t wearing a yarmulke because you can’t—“. The pauses in this particular monologue tell me that this woman is trying to watch what she says. In the times of hatred between Blacks and the Jewish, she did not want to slip up and so we often see her pausing to collect her thoughts or refer back to her story. This monologue does not necessarily help me reflect the truth about the riots in Crown Heights directly but I can not a clear example of stereotyping. The Blacks and the Jewish constantly have pre-determined judgments of the opposing race and we see this often throughout...
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...The play, The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman, uses long, uninterrupted monologues to show a character's full views about the murder of Matthew Shepard, and homosexuality in general. Juxtaposition is often used within a monologue to show the discrepancies that some people in the town feel about the Matthew Shepard incident. An example would be, “Moment: One of Ours.” In the previous moment, Harry Woods, and Matt Galloway give emotional interviews about all the support people had shown for Matt at the homecoming parade. However, this is all juxtaposed by Sherry Johnson’s monologue in the next moment, where she goes on to say, “A lot of it is my feeling that the media is portraying Matthew Shepard as a saint, and making kim a martyr. And I don’t think he was.” She then misinterprets facts about Matthew to justify her feelings about him. “It’s scary. You know about his character and spreading AIDS and a few other things, you know, being the kind of person that he was. He was, he was just...
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...One of the most monumental scenes from the movie, Good Will Hunting, includes a monologue spoken by a main character, Sean Maguire. Sean is a therapist that is trying to get through to a mathematical prodigy with a presumptuous and arrogant attitude. Sean is able to alter Will’s perspective by using allusions, emotions, parallelism and tone, while at the same time, establish a sense of respect for himself. An important part of the monologue spoken by Robin William’s character, Sean Maguire, is the purpose that the monologue itself serves. Maguire wants Will Hunting, a character played by a young Matt Damon, to understand that although he is a natural genius and basically a walking encyclopedia, he hasn’t experienced everything. Maguire uses...
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...During the opening monologue, Alvy speaks directly to the camera. In doing so, this introduces the visual techniques that is consistently employed throughout the film. The director frequently shoots Alvy directly addressing the camera. Throughout various scenes, including one where Alvy steps off a movie line to voice his complaints about another moviegoer, he declares his enraged thoughts to the camera. In framing shots this way, the director sets the viewer up as Alvy’s confidant. His expressiveness of inner thoughts grants the viewer better insight into his psyche and creates a personal dynamic between the viewer and him. With the intimate framing of the scene’s close-up, Alvy opens up to his confidants. The framing device and sets the tone for the viewers’ and Alvy’s...
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...self” as a way of how people receive the world. To alter this he brings up “Learning how to think” meaning “exercising some control over how and what you think”. I’m in college now so I presume that I already know how to think. Maybe my way of thinking is or could be the hardest or easiest way of thinking. In his speech he doesn’t want people to be insulted about what he is talking about. Just to look or “think” about it through a different prospective. I know the way I study and learn. I know the way I study and learn materials may be different for a different person. My friend finds the easiest ways to get his work done while still getting good grades. I on the other hand I need to have a hard copy of the material and look over it many times just to thouroughly know the material. David Foster also talks about “Blind Certainty” as I mentioned before. The so call “self centeredness” is how the world may seem like it revolves around you because you’re looking at it out of your own perspective. I know I feel like that sometimes. It’s not that I think about myself all the time or anything but I just feel like things get in MY way. Like Foster’s example of how people on the highway might be in YOUR way, yet you might be in theirs. I’ve been in that same position many times, not thinking of the other person. Maybe they have a baby or a handicap individual in the car and their driving safe. Perhaps there’s a sign on a car that says “baby on board”. The person in that car may think it may...
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...Redraft monologue type 1 Strengths and weaknesses STRENGTHS | WEAKNESSES | I had done well in terms of grammar and spelling had a few mistakes but overall they were adequate. | I need to use a wide range of vocabulary as my vocabulary is quite basic in my monologue. This can be improved by using a thesaurus. The advantage of using more, better and improved vocabulary is that it will give my monologue a more effective look and it will suit my character as my character is educated and sophisticated | I had stayed within the word limit of 500 words | I think that i may change my character and his situation entirely or slightly as i not happy with it.i feel that i can do better. | I had used the emotions and words of a nervous character and by doing this created tension and i feel that this tension is what will draw the reader in. | I feel like i need to express that character more and just focus on him and his feelings, This is because i felt like i kept trying to have a balance of my characters emotions and at the same time telling the reader what had happened. And i feel this has created a little tension and so i need to focus on my character more than anything else | I had started straight at the interview so i got straight to the point.This enabled me to not only stay within my word limit but had also created an atmosphere which i could start from | I feel like despite having an atmosphere to work from i feel i didn’t take advantage of this properly and hence despite...
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...A Taboo Way of Gaining Sexual Freedom Lucenda Honore Student Number: 3726126 SOP4774 Fall 2015 The Vagina Monologues is a series of monologues written by Eve Ensler. Eve Ensler went around and interviewed/ talked to countless women about a more untalked about topic, their vaginas. She heard interesting stories, funny stories, sad stories and more about vaginas. She then encompassed them into monologues that have been performed around the world bringing awareness to women about their sexuality, pain, happiness and own bodies. This book is used by feminist to promote self love but is also controversial to many feminist who feel as though the book reduces women to just what is between their legs. One such monoloque to bring about...
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...Co-Curricular Event: The Vagina Monologues Audition On the November 19th, I audition for the play The Vagina Monologues, by Eve Ensler, being presented by Feminist Majority. I knew about the play from the Feminist Majority meetings and from Sierra Stein. After Take Back the Night on Wednesday, Adina Leshinsky talked to me about the play. We talked about the different roles and how that there are ones within my comfort level, and how easy the auditions are, you did not have to prepare anything for the audition. So to make a long story short, she basically persuaded me to try-out. So the next day at about 6:30 pm, I headed over to HMSU room 314 to audition. I did theater in High School, but I still get nervous at auditions. I personally think that it...
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...Shakespeare’s use of tone, he is able to convey Duke Senior’s positive and optimistic sounding monologue as something that supports the pastoral ideal; that the country life is the ideal life. ‘Find Tongues in trees’ and ‘Sermons in stones’ and ‘Books in the running brooks’ alludes to their being knowledge in the country side; that just because the court life appears to be sophisticated with its rules, regulations and fixation on superficiality doesn’t make it the ideal life. This positive imagery then leads to the idea that the country life contains ‘good in everything’, unlike the court which is presented in this monologue as a toad, ‘ugly and venomous’. However there is mention of the ‘churlish chiding of the winter’s wind’ and the ‘icy fang’ that may deter anyone from the country life, yet Shakespeare rebuttals this with Duke Senior proclaiming that he smiles in the face of this adversity, for these complications are not complex and are plain and simple, as life should ideally be. At the end of Act 1 Scene 3, Rosalind and Celia exclaim “Now we go in content, to liberty and not banishment.” Which is immediately followed by this positive monologue by Duke Senior which wholeheartedly supports the pastoral ideas, that the country life is superior to that of the court life, proof of this not just being from the given extract but earlier in the play. Furthermore, the tone in which this monologue is being said is of an overly optimistic tone which consoles his brethren such as Amiens...
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...Rough-Draft Monologue: Extension of ‘An Odious Damned Lie. 4 minute monologue: She did it. She wrapped her arms around my throat and gave it all she had. Her arms were so fragile but sturdy. Strangling me. She was just strangling me. Taking the life out of me. After all this time, my constant provoking got underneath her skin. I’m actually surprised the roles switched. Attacked, to attacker. *slow and steady* Loris wasn’t the victim. Who would have thought the little nuisance would do it? She finally got the courage to stand up for herself. It’s about time; Of course it didn’t last long. She couldn’t have expected it to either. At least I hope she wouldn’t under estimate me like that. It’s one thing to underestimate me, it’s another to challenge me. I don’t understand, why does she always do this to herself? She makes it hard on her own. I mean, she’s kidding, right? *said in laughter* this girl needs to learn and who better to teach her than her mother? I would have figured she would know by now. Don’t push my limits. She’s felt the effect of that. Couldn’t she have been a simpler child? She had to get involved. Involved with the drama. With the boys. With the uselessness. What good does she really think would come from her immature games? They aren’t going to do anything for her. They aren’t going to get her anywhere. I could see her shifty eyes as soon as I sat down on the bed. She was trying. I could tell she was trying hard. But for what? Approval? You can’t...
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...one character to really think about choosing carefully throughout the play. The readers are able to see that Juliet is a very thoughtful, logical character through a convincing instinct Juliet has, the balcony scene monologue, and her soliloquy before taking the vile. Every teenager tries to influence their parents. Juliet tries to influence them by...
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