Eminem's "Stan": Following the Form of a Dramatic Monologue Popularized by Robert Browning Essay

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The song “Stan” by rap artist Eminem fits the dramatic monologue format popularized by Robert Browning, because in Eminem’s song, Stan fits all of the characteristics of the Duke in My last Douches. Stan is extremely obsessive; in the beginning of the song he dies his hair and is trying to actually become Slim Shady, even his outfit and style are the same as Slim and is screaming in his girlfriend’s face because she keeps calling him Stanly when I would imagine he would want to be called Slim, or Eminem, or Marshal, and just the fact that you would write not one but multiple letters, as he mentions in the song, to a celebrity in the first place is just a bit weird and obsessive in a way because he is so obsessed with just wanting to talk …show more content…
Stan is just a crazy obsessed fan who got progressively furious with Eminem with each passing letter he sent and did not receive any word back from, tragically ending his own life along with his girlfriend and unborn baby, and even wants to get revenge on Eminem by saying in the audio tape that he hopes that he cannot sleep and thinks about him and what he made Stan do and whenever he goes to sleep he dreams about Stan and what he thinks he made him have to do to himself and pregnant girlfriend from which he has no condolence for since she is in Stan’s trunk and is suffocating, then Eminem finally writes back to one of Stan’s older letters, and presents a lot of irony since he explains