Compare the presentation of the Duke and Porphyria's lover in My Last
Duchess and Porphyria's lover
Browning has presented The Duke and Porphyria's lover as obsessive and
controlling in the two poems. Telling the stories from the characters
point of view makes it clear that they both feel threatened by their
partners, and wish to regain the lead role they should have as the men
in their relationships. Rather than confronting their significant
others, they kill them because of their obsessive nature and lack of
communication. The Duke on one hand feels that he can only possess the
Duchess in a painting because he can control who looks upon her, where
as Porphyria's lover wants to capture Porphyria when he finally feels
in control.
The characters of both the Duke and Porphyria's lover are noticeable
through the relationships they have with their partners. It is clear
that they both have very similar intents, although for different
reasons. They are portrayed as jealous and untrusting of their
partners because of obvious insecurities they have in their
relationships. The Duke suspected that The Duchess was having an
affair with "Fra Pandalf":
" 't'was not/Her husband's presence only, called
that spot of joy into the Duchess' cheek' "
This implies that the Duchess blushed for others and therefore was
adulterous. He also suggests his wife gave sexual favours in return to
politeness when he says; "She thanked men - good!". Instead of being
concerned about losing her he was only worried that she would make a
fool of him and hurt his pride, as their relationship was not based on
love or passion but was merely a way for the Duke to show off. The
Duke only saw his wife as and object and not as a person a...
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...shows he has little in his life
accept Porphyria. The Duke has many objects and pieces his art,
showing his love for things not people. It also reminds us of the
Renaissance setting and shows that his is wealthy.
Comparing the two poems shows that Browning has a very pessimistic
view of relationships. It seems he feels that relationships without
love and admiration can never work and will end in disaster as is
apparent from "My Last Duchess". Ironically he also feels that a
relationship with love cannot be sustained either, which is evident
from "Porphyria's Lover". In "My Last Duchess" she dies because she
did not give the Duke the admiration he desired, but when in
"Porphyria's lover" Porphyria made her love for her lover clear, he
kills her anyway. This perhaps shows the aggressive nature of men and
how at the time they were very dominant in society.
The Portrayal of Romeo and Juliet's Relationship in the Play. In my opinion, the relationship between Romeo and Juliet is portrayed. in lots of different ways. It is portrayed as tragic, united, shows.
The poem is an example of a carpe diem poem - 'carpe diem' is Latin
The duke is telling the king to play Juliet better, but the duke is not that good either. Half way through their production, he mixed up his plays. When trying to state the monologue, “To be, or not to be” from William Shakespeare's Hamlet, he says the wrong lines and makes up some as well. Even after many errors, Huck actually thinks that the duke has a great talent. They visit a town in Arkansas, where Huck gives a really good description of the town. It is where young men walk around and fight over chewing tobacco. They witness Sherburn, a drunk, start a shooting with another man. People gather around the dying man and they insult Sherburn.
seen in "The curtain I have drawn for you, but I". This tells us that
put it into.’ We can see from this that Claudio is a romantic. He is
Love is everywhere in the world and the majority of the people will do anything for love. People will push the limits to what they do for love and it just makes you wonder of how much crazy people are out there and are willing to take it to that crazy level. Social media blows up everywhere when they hear about a story that the guy or the girl went crazy in the relationship and just did something crazy. Well there are two poems that author Robert Browning wrote about love and they are called “My last Duchess” and “Porphyria's Lover” and there are a couple things that you can compare and contrast about it like both have very jealous people and another is how crazy people can get and one that’s different is how they handle it.
Porphyria and her lover. ‘For love of her and all in vain: So, she was
Perhaps it is Shakespeare’s last unspoken word on the concept of love: childlike and mischievous. For those under love’s spell, perception becomes distorted in the subjectivity of the imagination rather than the objectivity of truth. Helena’s metaphor effectively imparts Shakespeare’s notion that Love has a beguiling and capricious nature. For Shakespeare, lover’s left disillusioned and irrational is conceivably the happiest
a political play but actually to focus on human behaviour in which love has always
“Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet provides a mimetic resume of this rivalry between English and Italian styles of swordplay."(Saunders) Here Saunders states that we see a summary of the conflict of swordplay styles acted out. The allusion to the “subtext of English swordplay versus Italian fencing…would have been apparent in the drama to Elizabethan audiences, but it is lost on modern viewers.”(Saunders) A modern viewer lacks the background knowledge that an Elizabethan audience would have had. Without this essential knowledge this allusion goes unnoticed to most modern viewers despite the fact that there is ample evidence in the text. Curiosity might lead oneself to ask questions such as: Which houses implement which styles of swordplay and what evidence is there in the text to support this? What swords or other weapons would have been used in each of these styles?
Imagine a single spotlight focus solely on you as you say exactly what you feel. Everybody wants to get their point of view heard. One of the most effective ways for an individual to solely get their point across is a dramatic monologue. A dramatic monologue is a type of poetry written in the form of a speech of an individual character. Dramatic monologue can also be known as a persona poem. Robert Browning was known for his dramatic monologues. “My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover” are two well-known poems by him. From these two poems I am going to compare the theme, use of imagery, and tone.
Courtly love originally was a literary concept that was popular among medieval nobles and later became more widespread among the populace. They 're are roughly nine stages of courtly love: attraction to the lady showed by glances/gazing, worship of the lady from afar by means of praise, declaration of passionate devotion, virtuous rejection by the lady, renewing with oaths of virtue and eternal fealty, despair of approaching death from unreturned desire, heroic deeds of bravery to win the lady 's heart, consummation of secret love, and endless adventures and subterfuges to avoid discovery. (Tuchman) Several of these can be clearly seen in “Othello.” Courtly love is closely linked with chivalry which acted like a moral code for knights. Chivalry was a set of guidelines that an ideal knight should strive for, beliefs such as loving one 's own country, to defend the weak, to never to flee from the enemy, and to be a champion for right and “Good” against “Injustice and Evil.” But more importantly codes that play a key role in the ideal that is courtly love in the Code of Chivalry are to be well-mannered, respectful of others, and to be honorable. In essence courtly love can be summed up into certain acts of chivalry and nobility by the practitioners. As a result during the high middle ages courtly love was said to have developed into actual etiquette and was practiced within (high) society. However there are historians
The Theme of Love in the Poems First Love, To His Coy Mistress, Porphyria's Lover, My Last Duchess and Shall I Compare Thee?
‘Porphyria’s Lover’ and ‘My Last Duchess’ are both poems by the Victorian poet Robert Browning. In this essay I will compare these two poems to find similarities and differences.
"Porphyria's Lover" is an exhilarating love story given from a lunatic's point of view. It is the story of a man who is so obsessed with Porphyria that he decides to keep her for himself. The only way he feels he can keep her, though, is by killing her. Robert Browning's poem depicts the separation of social classes and describes the "triumph" of one man over an unjust society. As is often the case in fiction, the speaker of "Porphyria's Lover" does not give accurate information in the story.