My Last Duchess

Released in 2008, The Duchess was dated back in the 18th century when the Duchess of Devonshire struggles with being a woman ahead of her time. Georgiana married at a young age to a man misdirected by, her mother, Lady Spencer that the Duke of Devonshire loved her even though they briefly met. To her surprise she found out quickly that was not the case, the Duke only wanted the marriage for her to bear him an heir. The Duke punished her shortcomings of bearing a son by having several affairs,…

Compare the presentation of those in power in ‘Macbeth’, ‘My Last Duchess’ and ‘Porphyria’s Lover’. In this essay I am writing to compare those in power of ‘Macbeth’, ‘My Last Duchess’ and ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ specifically in terms of gender, class and status also the good and evil power in the context of the 16th and 19th century. Shakespeare opens the play ‘Macbeth’ with witches. I think he does this to show how great the power of evil can be. The weather is described as ‘thunder and…

“In an Artist’s Studio” is a short Petrarchan sonnet written by Christina Rossetti in England during the year 1856. The sonnet encompasses the persona of the author who is watching an artist paint a portrait of a young woman. As the work progresses, the painter fails to capture the realistic beauty of his model, and begins fantasizing of the perfection she could be. Rossetti, being aware of gender inequality in this era, uses the subtle message of this sonnet to propose that the value of a woman…

of the Duchess, Chaucer uses the genre of the dream vision in order to show off his intellectual knowledge and his artistic capabilities. Therefore, true to his nature, Chaucer reveals not just one ‘truth’ but a series of truths as he emulates the work of other great poets and tries to appease the wishes of his patron, John of Gaunt and the memory of his departed wife, Lady Blanche the Duchess of Lancaster – whilst seeking recognition for his own literary greatness. The Book of the Duchess was a…

Theo had to squint his eyes because of the king’s glow. However, the monarch seemed to be very bored. He approached him escorted by the captain, two warriors, a very attractive woman, and three suus of light-blue robes and distracted looks. Theo could not set his eyes off the king, Lia bowed at him and Vrol went down on one knee on the stony path. “Good fortune, Your Majesty,” began the arazi, but a sudden angry movement from the king’s hand interrupted his formal presentation. “I will talk,”…

Seduction In this Essay I will compare and contrast two poems ‘The Seduction’ by Eileen McAuley and ‘Cousin Kate’ by Christina Rossetti. I will also support my ideas with quotations. Cousin Kate was written in the 19th century and The Seduction was written near the end of the 1900’s. This contributes to one of the differences I will be discussing in my essay The Seduction is about a teenage girl who goes to a party. She meets a boy and falls head over heels in love with him but she is unable to…

would like to propose a film adaptation of the poem, “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning. There have been very few adaptations of the work since its creation, and none within the film industry, so it would be a perfect, new medium for the story to be told. With the recent successes of films like Gone Girl and Nightcrawler, there is a clear public desire to witness passion, egotism, and sociopathology unravel; the narrator from “My Last Duchess” would provide a new archetype for these…

character known simply as "Curley's wife". This female is presented as an attention-hungry social outcast desperate for companionship and conversation. My last duchess by Robert Browning, is a poem based within the view of the Duke of Ferrara during a conversation with the painter: Alfonso. About his late wife the duchess. Unlike ‘Of Mice and Men’ and ‘My Last Duchesses’ where the reader is led to believe both women are or where inexplicitly killed, Thomas Hardy's; ‘The Ruined Maid’ delves into…

In the poem Marrysong, Dennis Scott presents an unconventional relationship between the speaker and his wife, a woman so complicated and fluctuating that he has to persevere hard in order to “learn” her constantly changing moods, something that he inevitably cannot do. However, in Sonnet 18, William Shakespeare successfully presents a conventional love between the speaker and his partner, who’s beauty and love from the speaker is endless and timeless. In Marrysong, Scott compares the speaker’s…

repetition of the words “Camelot” and “Shalott” for the first time in the poem, replacing “Shalott” with “Lancelot”. Just as Tennyson breaks the perfect repetition in his poem, the Lady of Shalott must break the rules of her confinement to Shalott. The last stanza of Part Three narrates the Lady’s decision to break the curse and follow the knight Sir Lancelot. The first for lines are characterized by anaphora with the repetition of the word “she” (III. 109-113). For the first time in the poem,…