H on the other hand is a woman's interpretation of a 19th century fictional character and how this character is left with feelings of violent hatred after being let down in marriage by her fiancé who has wed her to gain some of her riches. The theme of the poem is violent and confrontation but does compare and contrast with PL with the gothic nature. These four dramatic monologues do vary in storyline and tone however he same themes are made apparent in all of them and is what gives these poems a link and comparisons. Desire, death, domination and obsession as well as the balance of control between men and women over the past four hundred years are all explores. In Shakespeare's play "Much Ado about Nothing" we are also resented with these evident themes through two very different kinds of women with diametrically opposed attitudes to love and marriage.
This article takes a different approach speculating that the duchess had to be unfaithful due to her husband’s impotence. The author goes on to point out specific lines within the poem that suggest this as being plausible. Gardner gives the explanation for another wife as being to increase the Duke’s wealth from his new wife’s dowry. I particularly like the fact that this author call the Duke a sociopath that loves to horrify others in order to feed his ego. I’m not quite convinced but other views interest me so I believe this article could be helpful in my paper.
Carol Ann Duffy describes Medusa as a bitter woman, who has been betrayed by the man she loved. The poet creates the reader’s reaction to medusa’s character through a direst address to the reader. Rhetorical questions like ‘Are you terrified?’ and ‘Wasn’t I beautiful?’ bring the reader unto immediate contact with Medusa. Furthermore commands like ‘Be terrified’ and ‘Look at me now’ are used to build fear and allow the reader o experience her rage. This is just one method used to create the reader’s reaction to Medusa.
A Woman Killed with Kindness What is true love? How or when do you realize that the person you love is only leading you on? Well, in 1603, poet Thomas Heywood published a poem called, “A Woman Killed with Kindness” and in this poem, Heywood wrote about a love tragedy, married woman’s fatal affair. She commits adultery but realizes the love for her husband cannot decease. He presents the tension of love vs. infatuation and love vs. insanity.
Throughout Browning’s poems there is a reoccurring battle of power between men and women. The majority of Browning’s poems show women as inferior and naive beings who are owned by men, however Browning sometimes reverts the stereotypical Victorian women in a couple of his poems; making them the powerful figure. One poem which agrees with the statement is My Last Duchess. The Duke starts off by lacking the power to control his flirtatious Duchess but by murdering her and immortalising her into a painting the Duke gives himself ultimate power and control. “Since none puts by/The curtain drawn for you, but I”.
From the ancient version, the evidence can be obviously seen that Helen is always be blamed by the others. For example, she is blamed by Odysseus as “a faithless woman.” He thinks Helen is willing to go with Paris causing “a Romantic adventure.” Moreover, she is blamed by the noble men of troy, they say, “Man must fight for such as she.” Also, Helen is regards as all that agony and death as they say to each other, “For her face was like to that of an immortal spirit.” The noble men of Troy are insulting her even she is staying by them. We can see that Helen is blamed unfairly just
In the Browning poems ‘My Last Duchess’ ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ and ‘The Laboratory’ all these lover face multitude of emotions: obsession, lust, power, status and jealousy. Throughout Romeo and Juliet and the Robert Browning poetry there is also violence but for many different reasons; murder and death also play a significant role in each text. Right at the start of Romeo and Juliet you get a sense that fate and destiny play a key part in the overall outcome. In the prologue it states ‘two star cross’d lovers take their life’ This shows that their paths are already entwined and that there future has been written. In the Elizabethan time period people strongly believed in superstition, fate, destiny and the wheel of fortune.
The poems Porphyria’s Lover and The Laboratory both by Robert Browning are both quite simillar in the way he tells them and sets the scene/setting are different in several ways. Porphyria’s Lover is about a man who is in love with a woman who is from a rich upper-class family so cannot stay or be seen with him. So one night when she goes to see him, he kills her, so that she cannot leave him again. The Laboratory is about a woman whose boyfriend has left her or another girl. She then wants revenge.
Bad luck, can be defined as an inescapable and often conflicting results; destiny. Romeo and Juliet were ultimately the ones responsible for their own deaths looking from a destined point of view. On the other hand, the death of the two are partly caused by bad management. The fact that Romeo and Juliet got married knowing that there was a bitter feud between their two families. This feud brought problems along with it, such as the killing of Tybalt by Romeo.
Iago is jealous of both Othello and Cassio because of the same issue. He is jealous of Othello because Othello gave Cassio a promotion as his military lieutenant when Iago feels that he should have deserved it. Iago is also jealous of Othello because he heard rumours about Othello sleeping with his wife, Emilia. “I hate the Moor, and it is thought abroad that twixt my sheets has done my office,” Act 1. Sc.