Porphyria

Catherine conducts a not so secret conversation which allows Heathcliff to hear her confession of love for him, forcing him to leave the life he knows behind him. Porphyria’s lover partakes in transforming Porphyria fully as a person and takes her ability to act resulting her murder. Victor Frankenstein limits his father’s agency by cutting off all contact with the outside world while obsessing over the construction of his “human”. Through careful word choice…

the royal family was seen as mad due to a misdiagnosis. King George III of Great Britain is one of the most known cases. All throughout his lifetime people thought he was insane, but he was actually suffering from a genetic disorder known today as porphyria. George III became king of Great Britain and Ireland in 1760 following his grandfather George II’s death. King George III ruled over Britain from 1760 to 1820 (Stewart 120). George III was the most attractive of the Hanoverian monarchs.…

they share a great desire to completely control the women and they both feel no guilt after the deed is done. However, the “love” they feel for the women is completely unalike. In “Porphyria’s Lover”, the speaker desires control over Porphyria. He admits that Porphyria is not, and will never be, completely devoted to him: Too weak, for all her heart's endeavour, To set its struggling passion free From pride, and vainer ties dissever, And give herself to me forever.…

As Porphyria enters the home of her lover he seems loving and caring for her, he seems as though she meant the world to him. He “looked up at her eyes happy and proud; at last I knew Porphyria worshipped me.” This man who Porphyria was associated with was presumably the best you could ask for, the most kind, most caring and generous person ever. After you read ¾ of…

This is evident in the juxtaposition of the Lover’s murder of Porphyria and how he portrays her afterwards. The speaker leaves his actions completely bare to the audience, simply stating how he “strangled her” (41). Yet he believes that she “felt” no “pain // As a shut bud that holds a bee” (41-43). The simile is such a gentle image, as if even though she was robbed of her life, Porphyria was wrapped in comfort, since “her darling one wish” was granted (57). He has to rationalize…

John Keats displays his desires to achieve fame and love, but becomes defeated upon realization that his dreams will remain as dreams and nothing more. Lastly, in Robert Browning's poem, "Porphyria's Lover," he conveys Porphyria's lover strangling Porphyria due to his desire to withhold the love he received from her. Although desire can encourage…

quote when he states, “It tore the elm-tops down for spite / And did its worst to vex the lake / I listened with heart fit to break” (3-5). The alarming storm symbolizes the murder that will take place later that night and serves as a sign, which Porphyria dismissed. Another example of symbolism is Porphyria’s golden locks of hair, and the author often refers to the delicate strands throughout the poem. Browning says, “And spread, o’er all, her yellow hair / Murmuring how she loved me—she / Too…

“sullen”, yet Porphyria appears to have a form of power over it as she is described as “shut[ting] the cold out and the storm”. Just as she has power over the elements, Porphyria seems to have power over her passive lover – and even in death, she has an intoxicating effect on him. Porphyria is the dominant partner in the relationship; she physically reassembles her lover’s body, placing his “arm about her waist”. This mirrors the way the lover rearranges and almost plays with Porphyria 's body…

victorian poems, oftentimes with the man – or man equivalent monster – committing some kind of atrocity towards an undeserving maiden, who provokes said monster only by being a physical manifestation of purity, the antithesis of what he is. Both Porphyria 's Lover, by Robert browning, and Goblin Market, by Christina Rossetti, explore the duality of eroticisation and demonization of the female form – which acts as a manifestation of female desire - by utilising…

to justify them, which is where Tyler comes in as a grittier, manlier version of himself. The narrator in “Porphyria’s Lover” shares this ambivalence, as he seems disconnected from the gravity of the murder even as he commits it. He insists that Porphyria felt no pain as he strangled her and that when he lifted her eyelids “Laugh’d the blue eyes without a stain” (Browning 46). These are both highly improbable, revealing that the narrator has become somewhat delusional because of how badly he did…