What impression do we get of the protagonist in each of these poems and how does Browning create these impressions?

apothecary's shop is obviously madly jealous for the other mistress involved with her lover. The poem starts off with the woman in the shop quite nervous and edgy, as she puts the face mask on, and gradually she begins to take interest in what the man is doing " The soul from those masculine eyes " suggests she thinks that the other woman is not as attractive as her. The whole poem involves the woman getting more and more excited at the fact that she will kill her adversary, and eventually she is driven to something close to sexual pleasure at the fact that the poison is ready. This is demonstrated by the words, " You may kiss me, old man, on my mouth if you will! ". Those words show how much she has changed after having received the power to kill, as before she was obviously quite an upper class woman, and now she has lowered herself to get what she wants. The way that she reminds the poison maker to "grind away, moisten and mash up thy paste" and "pound at thy powder" suggests her desire to hurt and kill the woman as painfully and brutally as possible. The woman expresses her wish to let her victim choose her own fate in saying "and try it and taste, ere she fix and prefer!" meaning that she would like the woman to look at all of the potions and then pick the most beautiful looking one, and then find out that the one she has chosen is actually the poison. In My Last Duchess, the protagonist is talking to his prospective wife's father's envoy about a painting on the wall, of, so the Duke says, a picture of his last Duchess. When one reads the second line one can see that the duchess is classified as "last" not because the Duke has moved on and married another Duchess but because of the fact that she is dead. When one reads on the passage reads, "I gave commands; then all smiles stopped together". The Duke realised that he was not the only person that got smiles affection from the Duchess, "but who passed without much the same smile?" She also was seen with other men "the white mule she rode with around the terrace", and the Duke, fired by a fierce jealousy of not being her only lover, orders someone to kill her, as he cannot bring himself to kill his one and only love. It is made obvious by him that he does not regret it in any way when he moves on swiftly after reminiscing over her life and begins to talk about his wonderful statue. This would suggest that he now thinks of her as nothing more than a dead person of whom he has a beautiful painting of on his wall. The way Browning makes the Duke speak as if it is unimportant is very effective as it shows the true feelings that he had for the Duchess in the first place.