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Both men after killing the women keep an object in their place. The Duke with the painting and the cottager with Porpyria's corpse, these objects display the control the men have over the perfect woman they always wanted, who are in fact only objects.
lover wants the moment to last forever, this is highlighted with ' And give herself to me forever', this is comparable to the duke as it is he that wants his wife all to oneself. The strangulation of ' her little throat' then begins; it is an act of heart over matter.
It is as if the witnessing of the couple is a pivotal point for her behaviour changes, you can tell this by her choice of words. The thought of the girl has made her blood boil and she starts to think about the actual effects the poison will have on her rival.
warrant that no just pretence Of mine for dowry will be disallowed.' (Lines 49-51) This has the effect of giving the Duke a very materialistic quality, suggesting that his whole raison d'etre in marriage is to profit financially. His egotism is conveyed to the reader through his fiscal desires, and
"Boredom stirring in the streets," is an example of both pathetic fallacy and a metaphor. The character is so bored with life that he can see it, stirring in the streets. Of course, it isn't, but the author uses a metaphor and pathetic fallacy to illustrate this.
He sees himself as above the law, that no one could prosecute him for killing. The Duke has moved on from his late wife and is already in search of a new wife, this shows he did not necessarily love his late wife but that he wanted to have a
The duke obviously lives in grand finery. He invites the emissary to look at 'My last Duchess painted on the wall.' The Duke in 'My Last Duchess' was modelled on Alfonzo II, the fifth duke of Ferrara in Renaissance Italy.
He makes the iambic pentameter couplets seem more like a conversation and makes it informal by asking is listener question. ' How shall I say?' who'd stoop to blame this sort of trifling?' 'But who passed without much the same smile?'
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