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Destructive Love In Macbeth, And My Last Duchess

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Imagine that you are in the past and you're going through the many different styles of destructive love. In Wuthering heights, Macbeth, and My Last Duchess the theme of destructive love is presented through obsession, unfaithfulness, and jealousy within various characters of the stories.

In the story Wuthering Heights, woman had more say so than most, such as Catherine Linton said "She pursues her own desires"(Lombardi 1). Unlike her mother, Catherine let no man control her. My Last Duchess was a story that woman had no control over the men, even though the duchess of this story may have tried to do what she wanted as the duke admits "Too easily impressed; she liked whate'er she looked on"(Browning 23). The duke of this story took control of the situation by killing her off, we knew this because …show more content…

Unfaithfulness and disregard can cause many of problems within the family and resort to destructive love. Smiling and giving whatever to other men was the duchesses way of cheating on her loving duke who was very jealous of what she was giving to other men because he knew that he wasn’t the only one getting the attention "she thanked men, good, but thanked somehow I know not how."(Browning 31-32).

Not to mention, jealousy can be a disgraceful commodity that causes anger or even killing as proceeded in My Last Duchess "I know not how as if she ranked my gift of nine-hundred-years old name with anybody's gift"(Browning 32). Jealousy is an unyielding paraphernalia that most relationships struggle with most, it can be a hard thing to grip and get over also. In Macbeth jealousy was caused by Lady Macbeth showing too much attention into wanting to kill the king Duncan "When you durst, do it"(Macbeth

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