MANFRED Analysis Essay Example For Students

MANFRED Analysis Essay A monolog from the play by Lord Byron NOTE: This monolog is republished from Lord Byron: Six Plays. Ruler Byron. Los Angeles: Black Box Press, 2007. MANFRED: Thou bogus devil, thou liest!My life is in its last hourâ€that I know,Nor would recover a snapshot of that hour;I don't battle against Death, yet theeAnd thy encompassing holy messengers; my past powerWas bought by no reduced with thy crew,But by prevalent scienceâ€penance, daring,And length of watching, quality of psyche, and skillIn information on our Fathersâ€when the earthSaw men and spirits strolling side by side,And gave ye no matchless quality: I standUpon my strengthâ€I do defyâ€denyâ€Spurn back, and disdain ye!â€What are my violations to, for example, thee?Must wrongdoings be rebuffed yet by other crimes,And more prominent criminals?â€Back to thy hell!Thou hast no force upon me, that I feel;Thou never shalt have me, that I know:What I have done will be done; I bear withinA torment which could nothing pick up from thine:The Mind which is undying makes itselfRequital for its great or abhorrence thoughtsâ€Is its own starting point of sick and endâ€And its own place and time: its natural sense,When deprived of this mortality, derivesNo shading from the temporary things without,But is invested in toleration or in joy,Born from the information on its own desert.Thou didst not entice me, and thou couldst not entice me;I have not been thy trick, nor am thy preyâ€But was my own destroyer, and will beMy own hereafter.â€Back, ye puzzled fiends!The hand of Death is on meâ€but not yours!