Duke Nukem Forever

In Margaret Atwood’s “My Last Duchess”, this happens to be the case for her female protagonist when her class studies a poem by Robert Browning that is also titled “My Last Duchess”, in which a Duke had his Duchess killed for his own selfish reasons. Unexpectedly, the young girl’s interpretation of the Duke is vastly different from the rest of her class, thereby leading her to struggle with having a contentious opinion in addition to dealing with the realities of womanhood and teenage…

“My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning is a poem written in the form of a dramatic monologue. In it, the speaker describes the portrait of his late wife to the servant of a prospective bride’s father. Throughout the description, the speaker’s sociopathy is made increasingly clear, with the heavily implication that he was the actual cause of the wife’s demise. Browning reveals the prideful, control-obsessed, and sociopathic character of the speaker through self-boasting, caesuras in the monologue,…

An Application for Slavery In Sylvia Plath's poem "The Applicant", a male marriage applicant is being interviewed for his quality as a suitor and his willingness to accept the girl being offered for marriage by the narrator. While the young man is being grilled by the narrator, he does not near experience the harsh narrative treatment that the prospective bride receives, being purposefully deprived of both gendered pronouns and choice of action as part of the arrangement. Plath uses metaphor…

to the Duke in Robert Browning’s poem “My Last Duchess” it seems like an easy task. The Duke is showing the emissary the painting of his last Duchess and telling him of her flaws and how she made him unhappy. The Duke has met with the emissary to discuss his next marriage. The death of his most recent Duchess was caused by the Duke and his personalities traits. They are the reason for him murdering her because he is a jealous, selfish, arrogant and controlling man. A large fault that the Duke…

In both of the poems, the girl does something with other men that anger their lovers. Both men are extremely jealous in this poem and like to have control of the women’s actions. In My Last Duchess the duke says “She smiled, no doubt, Whene’er I passed her; but who passed without Much the same smile?”(lines 43-44). The Duchess is killed in this poem because she smiles to much at other men. In Porphyria’s Lover the man says “From pride, and vainer ties…

1. The first example that exposes the ego and self-centeredness of the Duke was in his introduction of the Duchess to the envoy. He describes her as a prized possession that can only be revealed to whomever he chooses. The Duke reiterates the name Fra Pandolf as the painter, so that the envoy will recognize his affluence, making it safe for the audience conclude that Fra Pandolf could not have been just an ordinary artist, but a well-known and expensive artist. The Duke’s admiration for the…

Duchess,” the Duke disliked the duchess’s behavior and eventually ended her life because he was extremely displeased and dissatisfied with not only her actions, but also with her nature. Browning exemplifies the Duke’s obsession for power in his marriage through his reaction to the last duchess’s actions. However, the Duke had his duchess killed, shockingly his response can be found not only in fiction or poems, but also in real life. In Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess,” the Duke was…

poem to emanate the Duke’s tone of wanting to be the authority in situations. In the opening lines of the poem, the Duke tells the envoy “will’t please [he] sit and look at [the Duchess]?” [5] however does not miss a beat to continue his monologue, never once looking to his audience to talk, never once allowing the control he has over the speech to waver. The painting of which the Duke is talking about is even something the…

Kurt hadn't displayed any suspicion, and surely, if he was aware of any crime he'd have questioned them back by the side of the road, and not offered them a bed for the night. As glad as he'd been to see Karmen's ability to jump in and save them, Duke had been just as pleased to see her, too, lost for words, only a moment after. The woman didn't do a very good job of hiding her reaction to his deliberate drawing of her attention to Karl's uniform, but Duane said nothing as her features returned…

1. What is depicted and description. -Gaspar De Guzman, Count-Duke of Olivares and his noble horse seem to be facing or running towards the battle in great confidence. He's wearing a red scarf and a baton which both show authority or leadership in some way. He is well suited up with a beautiful body of armor flaunting power, authority and protection. Count-Duke did not actually fight in what seems to be a battle ahead but he did lead. His confidence in this painting is to the roof, as his face…