My Last Duchess And Porphyria's Lover Analysis

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Death By A Crazy Guy (Comparing and Contrasting My Last Duchess and Porphyria's Lover) A dramatic monologue is a speech that is in poetic form, where the writing has elements of the characters psyche and emotions. From The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica, ¨Though the form is chiefly associated with Robert Browning, who raised it to a highly sophisticated level in such poems as My Last Duchess.¨ This quote just goes to show incredibly popular The author of these two poems is, the definition of dramatic monologue uses his work as an example. The work of Robert Browning has lasted the ages, and it clearly seen because students across the country still this poem to this day. In the case of the two poems My Last Duchess and Porphyria's Lover, there are clear similarities and differences. The first poem My Last Duchess by Robert Browning is clearly a case of a man who has to much control. The poem is about an extremely wealthy man, who has a good upper class last name. This man has a gorgeous girl who has problem smiling, tis really doesn't seem like much of a problem, but for this power hungry aristocrat it is his downfall. Steve Taylor Ph.D from Physcological Today, ¨Women effectively live as prisoners, unable to leave the house except under the guardianship of a male guardian.¨ This quote shows how women were…show more content…
Hara Estroff Marano states from Psychology Today, “Being a controlling and jealous person makes one feel threatened in emotional panic over threatened loss, some people do dangerous things.” In both stories the men are insane and they have a connection between being jealous and being controlling. On page 984 line 60, “And yet God has not said a word!” This quote shows how crazy the man is in Porphyria's Lover. Both men from the stories have reminiscences of being unstable. Clearly there are similarities between the two stories by Robert
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