Porphyria's Lover Essay

and Porphyria’s Lover. These two texts share some startling similarities, and some thoughtful differences. “Social comparison is important.” (Festinger) Browning’s two poems My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover follow a similar idea, and in the following text, will be compared in three main areas. The first area of discussion is who is telling the story. In My Last Duchess, the narrator is a vastly wealthy Duke, who lives in a massive house with its own art gallery. In Porphyria’s Lover however

“My Last Duchess” and “Porphyria’s Lover” are two poems that go together in many ways. For instance, Robert Browning wrote both of the poems and the men are very psychotic. The many similarities and differences of the two poems show how women are treated as objects, how the women are killed, and how the men felt about their women. The many similarities in the poems are what connect the two. In both poems, the two men each get jealous very easily. In “My Last Duchess,” the Duke becomes envious when

Criminal Minds Level Creepy (Comparing and Contrasting Robert Browning’s Porphyria's Lover and My Last Duchess) The younger generation seems to have developed a fascination with the disturbing, macomb, and gory. Media throws such images at people, in the form of crime shows, horror movies, and murder mystery novels. This fascination stems from the desire to understand suffering and the motivation that causes a person to inflict suffering in an attempt to avoid it ourselves more effectively. This

Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’. It is presented as infatuation which is proven to be a force so strong that it literally consumes the two lovers. Although it is only alluded in Browning’s dramatic monologues The Laboratory, the speaker arguably loves her husband as she seeks to rid herself of his lover thereby reclaiming him as her own. Narcissism is seen in both Porphyria’s Lover and My Last Duchess as both characters empower themselves by making them the central focus of the monologue. The Duke is the least

Author of short story The Most Dangerous Game, Richard Connell and author of poem Porphyria’s Lover, Robert Browning both use similar techniques to portray a theme. In The Most Dangerous Game a man’s passion for hunting goes too far. As well as the narrator in the poems love for a girl. Connell and Brown use characterization to convey a theme that Love/Passion taken to extremes can have a (negative, horrendous, horrific) effect. In The Most Dangerous Game, Richard Connell uses the character Zaroff

Victorian’s True Love: (A discussion of the treatment of women in the Victorian era as critiqued by Robert Browning in his poems, My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover) Similarly to the father of English’s, Chaucer’s, literary critique of his time period the Canterbury Tales, Browning critiques the treatment of women in his time period known as the Victorian Era. Robert Browning was self-educated through his father’s grand library. By the time he was a teenager Browning had decided to make poetry

connect the twisted humans to the killing of others. The authors Robert Browning and Richard Connell, use details to prove that murder, which is usually frowned upon, is occasionally justified in the minds of the disturbed. Both story and poem, “Porphyria’s Lover” and “The Most Dangerous Game” illustrate in the text how deeply rooted obsession can construct an invasive insanity leading to murder.  Connell uses Zaroff’s obsession with hunting and Browning uses the narrator's obsession with Porphyria.

Explore the ways in which Browning portrays male characters to powerful effect in ‘My Last Duchess’ and ‘Porphyria’s Lover’? Throughout ‘My Last Duchess’ Browning illustrates the Duke's obsession with controlling the people around him; both past and present. One way the Duke exerts his dominance is by not allowing the emissary to talk. The Duke asks him questions but he does not allow him to answer so they quickly become rhetorical, for instance, when the Duke states ‘Will 't please you sit and

In the poem, “Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning, he describes a man who has murdered the woman he loved, named Porphyria. Porphyria’s lover, the speaker starts the poem off by explaining the bad weather that set into the night and how it has been raining and windy. The speaker’s word choice sets a depressing mood. The speaker who is obsessed with Porphyria lives in a remote cabin. Porphyria is coming from a social gathering already which shows the social contrast between the two. He obsesses

(the duchess referred to is believed to be his first wife Lucrezia de' Medici). On the other hand, in Porphyria’s Lover, we find an unyielding and curious man recounting how he made Porphyria’s love for him