Dominant and Submissive Behaviors Lady Chatterley’s Lover‚ is a controversial novel written by D.H Lawrence with reference to the sexual life‚ which the couples experience demonstrating patterns of dominance and submission. D. H Lawrence has presented a deep relation between sexual desires and the dominant-submissive relationships‚ which develop between the protagonists of the novel. Its plot revolves around the story of Lady Catherine who is a young woman‚ married to a paralyzed husband that becomes
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Mike Sobieraj English 203 Roger Gilbert The Lover and the Duke The creation of a plausible character within literature is one of the most difficult challenges to a writer‚ and development to a level at which the reader identifies with them can take a long time. However‚ through the masterful use of poetic devices and language Browning is able to create two living and breathing characters in sixty or less lines. When one examines these works one has to that they are quite the achievements
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last Duchess’ and ‘Porphyria’s lover’ Robert Browning was born in May 1812 and died at the age of seventy. Browning was an English poet who has become known as the person to invent and popularise the dramatic monologue. This made him the foremost Victorian poet; two of his most successful dramatic monologues are those of ‘My last Duchess’ and ‘Porphyria’s Lover’. The reoccurring theme within the two monologues is murder as they show the idea of men killing a lover Dramatic monologues are significant
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during the Victorian era for his dramatic monologues. Readers are continuously drawn in by the manipulation‚ murder‚ mystery and inner thoughts of a psychopath‚ all of which are evident in his more disturbing poems‚ ‘My last duchess’ and ‘Porphyria’s Lover’. Browning reveals the blurred lines between control‚ love and mental instability by using subtle techniques such as his choice in the form of poem and satire. Browning is able explore these controversial ideas in a conservative age‚ by using the
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literary pieces by Robert Browning gave chilling imprints upon the readers. Reading the two text titled My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover are about two women killed by their partners. They are similar in that fact‚ but different in another. A main contrast is the way the women were killed. In Duchess‚ we do not know exactly how the duchess died; while in Lover‚ every detail is shared. Another important contrast is the difference in motive. Why did these men kill the women they ‘loved?’ In Duchess
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The Pathetic "Lover" The Ballad of the Sad Café‚ by Carson McCullers (1951) suggests that there are two types of people in the world: the "lover" and the "beloved". The "lover" is a pathetic character so enamored by the "beloved" that it changes his/her attitude or personality completely. The feeling is so powerful that even though it causes the "lover" excruciating pain‚ he/she continues to love. The two main characters fall under this mysterious spell and it changes their lives forever. McCullers
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Browning uses a number of different narrative techniques to tell the story in Porphyria’s Lover. The poem is written in first person‚ in past tense‚ from the perspective of our narrator who is unnamed but as the title suggests is “Porphyria’s Lover”. This means that the telling of events is not completely reliable and can be assumed to be biased. The narrator’s first line of speech‚ “I listened heart fit to break” suggests he is waiting for someone‚ maybe even longing. Browning structured this
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A concise Chinese-English dictionary for lovers by Xiaolu Guo. The main character of the book is Z. Z is a young Chinese woman who is sent to England by her parents‚ to take English classes. By sending Z to London‚ her poor parents hoped to give their daughter a better future than that they had. While Z is in London‚ she’s very lonely and experiences a culture shock. After a while of being very lonely‚ meets a men. This man is in the book referred as lover. At first the relationship goes well and
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My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover Robert Browning wrote the two poems‚ Porphyria’s Lover and My Last Duchess. In each poem‚ the speakers seem mentally disturbed. Also‚ both speakers had relationships with "strong" women who‚ despite apparently loving them‚ they each ended up killing. Strangely enough‚ both men seem to be much happier after they have committed these murders. The murders in these poems deal with power based on gender. The females have the power and the men do not. The men feel
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It influences a story’s direction‚ the emotions invoked in the reader‚ and how themes are shaped into ideas. Robert Browning’s dramatic monologues Porphyria’s Lover and My Last Duchess contain many thematic similarities‚ despite portraying different scenarios‚ primarily spoken through a possessive and jealous man. In Porphyria’s Lover a man waits in his cottage for Porphyria. Her arrival “shut[s] the cold out and the storm” both literally and metaphorically. Porphyria confesses her undying love
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