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Comparing Jealousy In Macbeth 'And My Last Duchess'

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Some relationships are abusive, which can be verbally, physical, and emotional. Was jealousy the reason 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 his wife. Macbeth killed King Duncan. Mr. Hyde killed Sir Danvers Carew. They all differ in their methods of killing. In My Last Duchess, jealousy was extreme. Jealousy takes a big role in bad love because it hurts a lot when partners find out that the person they thought they would spend their entire life with is flirting with different people and not keeping their honesty and loyalty towards the relationship that they committed themselves to take part of. It took a major role in this dramatic monologue because the Duke found the women he thought was right for him but she was flirty with the men of the village. The occasion for the monologue is, as we know, a mediated dowry negotiation with …show more content…

Jekyll has a feeling of horror, he thinks Mr. Hyde might do more horrible things. “The next day, came the news that the murder had been overlooked, that the guilt of Hyde was patent to the world, and that the victim was a man high in public estimation. It was not only a crime, it had been a tragic folly. I think I was glad to know it; I think I was glad to have my better impulses thus buttressed and guarded by the terrors of the scaffold. Jekyll was now my city of refuge; let but Hyde peep out an instant, and the hands of all men would be raised to take and slay him.” (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 10.20) The odd thing is that Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde happens to be the same

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