Browning

Love is a manical thing. Sometimes it can push people to do things that they normally wouldn’t do. Robert Browning writes about how love can change people. In “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning, he tells about how a man became to irrationally afraid that he killed his wife. In “Porphyria's Lover” by Robert Browning, a girl wanders into the woods and finds a man who would then kill her. There are many comparisons and contrasts you can pull from Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” and…

and everyone, including his wife. His need for control his mirrored in his relationship with the count’s agent. He is a patriarchal figure, who views himself as the more significant of the two sexes. He is proud of his “nine-hundred-years name” (Browning 33) and is upset that his wife could only treat him like she treated other men. He could not comprehend how such a woman, from a lower social class, could possibly not be under his control. To him, she was an object for him to possess and when…

The Duke manipulates language throughout the monologue, only offhandedly saying what he means throughout. He reveals that he did love his late wife when he gets lost in admiration as he describes her. However, it quickly turns when he remembers “all and each would draw from her alike the approving speech.” Using euphemisms, the duke indirectly admits to having his wife murdered by saying, “I gave commands; then all smiles stopped together.” Smiles symbolize his wife’s life, as she smiled at…

An instant, authoritative voice is found present in Browning’s words during this scene. Even after she dies, Porphyria is not allowed the freedom to understand her own feelings (Buron). Through this particular work, Browning reveals that Victorian women had no freedom in almost every aspect of their life. The one true power that was held, such as expressing one’s feelings, is taken away. By doing so, men take away the purpose of being. The persona simply declares Porphyria’s…

The parents of Westside High School senior, Chris Browning, were killed in a tragic car accident right outside of Savannah, Georgia when he was 8 years old. He now resides with Alan and Melissa Smith, who adopted Chris after a few short months after the accident. He also has a step brother Jacob (18 years old). Chris excels in baseball, as well as in the classroom. Chris grew up in a house where he did not feel so welcomed by his step brother, Jacob. They have played baseball together…

when they are bad they can be really awful. This is the case in The Most Dangerous Game, by Richard Connell, and Porphyria’s Lover by Robert Browning. The Most Dangerous Game is about a man who hunts humans. Porphyria’s Lover is a poem about a man who is deeply in love with a woman who cannot be with him, so he kills her. Richard Connell and Robert Browning use extremely descriptive characterization to convey a theme that obsession can have a negative outcome. In the short story The Most…

Christopher R. Browning, seeks to understand the police officers behind the blitzkrieg against Polish Jews during the German military offensive of 1942. Rather than focus on the liquidation of major ghettos in Warsaw and in Lodz, this study focuses on the smaller towns and villages that included significant Jewish populations in Central Poland. By examining indictments and judgements from legal documents obtained from the Central Agency for the State Administration of Justice in Ludwigsburg,…

An In-Depth Look at My Last Duchess In the poem “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning, the main character, the Count speaks about his deceased wife and a painting of her to a mysterious listener at his private party. The Duchess’s story revolves around the internal conflicts between her and the Count. The main threads include the jealousy and self-importance of the Count, as well as the compassion of the Duchess. He subtly insinuates to the party-goer that his wife’s early death was caused by…

in Poland, uses records from the trials of Nazi crimes in Germany to examine the perpetrators. Browning, just like the scientists, could not come to any solid conclusion to explain how a regular man could commit such horrific crimes. He did nonetheless pose an important question: “If the men of Reserve Police Battalion 101 could become killers under such circumstances, what group of men cannot?” (Browning 189). The controversy in the question of “ordinary men” exists because, whether one…

Annotated Bibliography Robert Browning wrote "My Last Duchess” to demonstrate oppression, jealousy, and pride that the speaker (duke of Ferrara) presents when he is talking about his last duchess who he murdered because “she smiled too much.” It is assumed that the Duke keeps the painting of his late wife covered by a curtain so only he can reveal her smile which was just supposed to be for him. At the end of the poem the duke mentions a bronze statue of Neptune taming a sea-horse which suggests…