ENGLISH 1C06 Lecture Notes - Dramatic Monologue, Victoriana, Transcendentalism
25 Feb 2013
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Reign of queen victoria (1837-1901: christian ethics and constraints. Theory of evolution leads to crisis of faith. Intellectual and spiritual doubt antidote is work. Feel alienated, betrayed estranged from life and love. So isolate themselves no groups or friends. In the dramatic monologue, then, there is typically a speaker and a dramatic context, with an implied listener present in the scene. Yet we come to understand that speaker and that dramatic context only through what the voice says. This is quite different from real life and other forms of drama in novels and theatre, in which a variety of criteria may be employed (what one says, what one does, how one appears, and what others are saying). The dramatic monologue forces us to come to terms with the limitations that we face whenever we try to know something in an absolute sense.
