What Is The Difference Between My Last Duchess And Checking Out Me History

The theme anger, power and conflict are constantly conveyed in both dramatic monologues, “My Last Duchess” and “Checking Out Me History”. They are simultaneously shown through different aspects of ownership, both physically and mentally towards one weaker person, from a comparatively dominant and empowered side. This also displays the concealed and camouflaged idea of a “social and gender split” within the unbalanced society. In “My Last Duchess”, Browning indirectly criticises the patriarchal society of the Victorian Period, which is shown through the duke’s desperate need of ownership to the duchess. Whilst in “Checking Out Me History”, Agard shows his lack of ownership of his own history, as the empowered colonies such as the British, were