My Last Duchess Compare And Contrast Essay

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Compare and Contrast: Last and Lover
Nobody especially women like to be compared. No one likes to feel like they’re in competition against somebody else. Once someone starts saying this person has this compared to you then the other person just starts feeling down and maybe even hate towards the certain person, to overtop them. When people are together they expect the full attention always on them and not on anyone else. Can love really take over someone though and push them past boundaries? His last Duchess, was a beautiful women like he himself said. He either wanted his next to be as beautiful or more beautiful than her. She hadn’t ever done him wrong besides show him happiness, maybe too much. She always smiled when she saw him and that might have scared him. He never even said that she would leave the house without him and upon returning going straight to him.
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She never invited him out with her she would return home and shut the door, the fire might have been out and she started it, as he was sitting in the cold dark, waiting for her arrival. He never said anything to her, she’s the one that has to put his arm around her waist, let her hair loose and lay him on her shoulder. The thought of being in love with her scared Browning, he thought that she had multiple “friends.” It would of been a different story if she had invited him and him to have said no instead of not asking at all. After, being with both Browning never seemed to have a doubt with his last Duchesses love. With Porphyria’s lover it was different, he felt unsure and threatened by her entertaining others and not just him. His last Duchess always smiled. Porphyria’s lover always went out and never took him along and she claimed to love him. Duchess, was more of her showing him love by emotions and Porphyria’s lover more by words and not so much by

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