Porphyria’s Lover, My Last Duchess and The Laboratory Essay

Which she utilizes to gain rank and bring her one step closer to her redemption. Although that side is very dominant there is a more hidden soft

her pleasure, now only gives her sorrow. In a very short time she has lost self control and

alone with nothing so the only way to get out of the loneliness is by killing her one love.

lose her husband and she does not want that with her life. She wants to keep the man that

to be weak and naïve in the eyes of her father. We can tell this from

The loss of a loved one is perhaps the most difficult experience that humans ever come up against. The poem Porphyria’s Lover, written by Robert Browning, adds a sense of irony to this. At the most superficial layer, the speaker’s in both Porphyria’s Lover and Neutral Tones, written by Thomas hardy, both deal with loss. The tones in Neutral Tones seem to be indifferent, or Neutral. Porphyria’s Lover speaker ends up murdering his beloved at the end the poem. While this isn’t the case with the speaker in Neutral Tones, the two speakers are much more similar than we might think. The speaker in Neutral Tones doesn’t outright murder his lover, but there is a considerable amount of disdain and contempt towards his supposed lover. The speaker in Porphyria’s Lover is quite obviously a disturbed man, the sinister nature of the speaker in Neutral Tones, however, is not as clear. Delving further into this idea, I will also discuss other obscure parallels throughout the two poems.

husband. She is still at the time in her life where she fears him. She wants to do everything she

puts her son’s comfort and life above all and swallows her pride. Furthermore, as a woman of the

mother. Yet, at the same time she feels as if she is prisoner to these relations. Due to her

from her husband. From reading the story I gathered she obviously didn’t love him. She wanted to give

Porphyria’s Lover and The Laboratory “Porphyria’s Lover” and “The Laboratory” both deal with crimes of passion. Explore ways Browning explains ways of obsessive nature of his character and analysis the effects of literary techniques. “Porphyria’s Lover” is a poem about a crime and passion. Porphyria is a young, wealthy girl who seems to have abandoned her family’s tradition of choosing wealthy men as lovers. Her lover remains anonymous, this could be because he has murdered her and does not want his name releasing.

look at but he feels as if the Duchess takes him for granted and she

shows how she is passive and submissive. Her weak flaw lies in the fact that

The fact that the men are fighting over her helps to affirm her beauty. She does nothing to stop the fight because she enjoys the fact that they all want her affection.

only way this is possible is to kill her. This occurs to him after he