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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.
The arrogance of the Duke is portrayed both by his cold, formal mannerisms as well as his blunt assertions of superiority. The Duke's cold formal manners are revealed to the audience by the way that he talks at the envoy of the Count, rather than to him: ' Nay, we'll go Together down, sir' (Line 53-34)
It is an ordinary day, a sort of grey..." The rhythm in "Education for Leisure" is iambic pentameter (5 stressed and unstressed syllables to each line) and this iambic rhythm also keeps the poem at a steady pace. "Porphyria's Lover" has a more definite rhyming scheme. The rhymes are in two different patterns: a, b, a, b, b, and e, f, g, f, g, g.
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?'
There are also many differences between the two murderers. Exploring their lifestyles, we can see that the murderer in 'Porphyria's Lover' is quite lazy, leaving Porphyria to make "...the cheerless grate blaze up..." instead of doing it himself. In contrast, the killer in ''Human Interest'' says "I'd slogged my guts
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