which reflects the widespread objectification of women in the Renaissance. Women are the images on the wall which are merely men’s accessories. The readers may notice that the duke uses very limited words to describe the painting‚ so what the duchess looks like is very vague to the readers. We can presumably imagine that the duke derives more pleasure from owning the painting than from what is actually in the painting. For him‚ getting to know who his ex-wife really is doesn’t matter as long as he owns
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expressive purpose is to explain to the Count’s servant why he‚ the Duke‚ doesn’t have a Duchess anymore. The first line of the poem‚ “That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall‚ looking as if she were alive‚” hints of the last Duchess’s death and the rest of the poem elaborates on the complete story of the last Duchess. Throughout the poem‚ we discover that the main reason for the last Duchess’s disappearance was because the Duke felt threatened by her friendly nature towards everything‚ especially
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accumulation of critiques on Browning’s work‚ but very little on "My Last Duchess". The article I found concentrated mostly on the Duke in the poem‚ and our reactions to him‚ stating that "[t]he utter outrageousness of the Duke’s behavior makes condemnation the least interesting response " The title of the article was "Sympathy versus Judgment". Some of its points are that the Duke controls the entire poem‚ that it being a monologue was significant‚ and that he is almost easy to sympathize with and like
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My Last Duchess The relationship between the Duke and Duchess in the poem My Last Duchess is very possessive. The Duke in the poem‚ frequently objectifies his late wife by referring to her as ‘my last duchess’. The use of the word ‘my’ suggests that it is personal to him and he has possession over her as she belongs to him. It also suggests that the relationship was very singular and for his benefit only as it was his wife and therefore his relationship. This reveals that the couple’s relationship
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MY LAST DUCHESS: Narrative perspective/voices: first person narrator‚ aristocrat‚ superior and detached‚ clear sense of the addressee who the duke thinks is inferior‚ the Duke talks about the duchess but never quotes her words‚ the duke a performer who mimics the voices of others‚ chilling sinister tone‚ etc. Setting: the duke of Ferrara’s palace‚ upstairs in the gallery‚ 16th century setting‚ etc. Dramatic monologue‚ written in iambic pentameters‚ reads like blank verse in a drama/contains
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focuses on a sixteenth century Italian duke who is regaling his guest with tales of his deceased wife from which the poem’s title is derived. The Duke’s guest is the envoy of a count whose daughter the Duke intends to make his next duchess. The poem takes the form of a dramatic monologue. Browning was one of the pioneers of the dramatic monologue in which a speaker’s character is revealed to an implied audience through his words alone. Through his speech‚ the Duke is revealed to be a villain lacking
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most successful and memorable battles that I ever participated in. Duke William has always had a reputation of being a success on the battle field‚ but this victory has branded him as a victorious military leader. Harold the king of England at the time of the battle had murdered his brother and his kingship was disputed. As we all know the throne should have been Williams Duke of Normandy but that Harold cheated his way into it. Duke William had prepared for a battle with Harold months in advanced
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living arrangement of Duke of Ferrara. The "Duke" is the speaker/storyteller in this sonnet‚ it’s a discussion between the duke and a hireling of the Count. The fundamental graceful gadgets in this lyric is: imagery‚ representation‚ and similar sounding word usage. In this sonnet imagery was the main scholarly gadget that got my consideration. For instance‚ "However to myself they turned (since none puts by/The drapery I have drawn for you‚ yet I) (9-10)". The drapery was the Duke method for concealing
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and Lady Macbeth has big ambitions to complete and they take on pride. Likewise in the Labotory‚ the speaker who is the women takes on the leadership in this theme as the flaws within her character is similar to Lady Macbeth. Browning presents the duke in my last duchess to be manipulative as you are trying to figure out if he was the one to kill his wife or not. The structure of Macbeth is a dramatic monologue as well as The Laboratory and The Last Duchess. The use of the dramatic monologue is
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execution Iago begs to be given a fair trial‚ and so it is done. The Duke of Venice as the “Judge”‚ Iago is given 20 minutes to give his defense speech. The Duke slams the gavel to hurry Iago up. Iago stands and starts off by saying “Thy honour‚ I am v’ry grateful yond thee has’t given me this chance to proveth myself. What I am about to sayeth shall beest w’rth sparring mine own life f’r I am h’re to proveth myself innocent” so far the Duke isn’t too pleased. Iago continues… I know what I did was wrong
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