My Last Duchess Essay

I will just do two because I don't want my post to be extra long. (The quote might make it still long but I am trying to make them fit in with the sentence as we talked about in class).

2.In the poem, "My Last Duchess" the Duke of Ferrara's attitude toward women is somewhat shown/know if you look at the detail and think about that time. As we know they said that the dukes last wife had dies of some suspicious circumstances.

So in this poem it the attitude towards women is that they should be very honored to be with him and should put him above all else. We can see as we look through the poem that he did not feel like his wife was doing that and that she was making him equal to everyone else which he did not like and made him jealous ( he

"She had
A heart—how shall I say?— too soon made glad,
Too easily impressed; she liked whate’er
She looked on, and her looks went everywhere." This show how he thought she was getting to happy by other people and we can really see his jealous and how he thinks he is so greater than others when he said "She thanked men—good! but thanked
Somehow—I know not how—as if she ranked
My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name
With anybody’s gift." This show us that he thinks that she should have felt honored to be with he and that she should have put him before other men, not get so glad by them. So we see that these things upset him and he thought that he should not have to tell her to not do these thing she should just know "Who’d stoop to blame
This sort of trifling?" He did not want to stoop to that level and said that even if he had good speech to tell hr thees thin he would not stoop to that level and talks about how he could talks to her and even change he wits and make excuse but he would not do that because "E’en then would be some stooping; and I