Shanaz Iqbal How does Browning tell the story in ‘The Laboratory’ Browning’s Poem ‘The Laboratory’ is a dramatic monologue and has a similar subject to that of ‘My Last Duchess’’- a person who kills (or is about to kill) her rival. It is a form of a monologue and the silent witness is important. He is an expert in poisons, who sells his services to wealthy women. The subtitle of the poem ‘Ancien Regime’ tells us that it is set in France before the revolution, when the old regime was still in place. The narrator of the poem appears to be a woman, a fact which is made clear in lines 19-20, in which she will carry her poison.
Explore how Shakespeare and browning reveal strong feelings using Lady Macbeth and the laboratory. The laboratory by Robert Browning is about how one woman in aristocratic France because of betrayal and jealousy can lead to attempting to kill her partners’ new lover. The woman is at a laboratory to have a poison created to kill her rival. During which she has flash backs revealing what she has witnessed. The woman in the dramatic monologue is the woman with the strong feelings unlike normal women of the 18th century who would have gone to a church to pray to god, for him to give them strength, but this woman decided to go to a laboratory which was considered as the devils house, “devil’s-smithy”, to take actions into her own hands.
Browning’s poem ‘The Laboratory’ is about a scorned woman’s desired to kill her lover’s mistress, and any other woman he may have had an affair with. ‘The Laboratory’ (Ancient Regime) refers to an older rule or government suggesting that the speaker comes from a past. Love being a profound, tender, passionate affection towards another person. When Romeo meets Juliet for the first time, he describes her asa “snowy dove trooping with the crows”. The word “dove” suggests she is both beautiful and a figure of peace.
03 Write about the ways Browning tells the story in ‘The Laboratory’? In the poem ‘The Laboratory’, Robert Browning adopts various methods with he uses to tell a story. The poem describes a jealous Marquise waiting for a poison to be concocted in a laboratory, obsessively intent on getting revenge on the woman who stole her love. ‘The laboratory’ is written as a dramatic monologue in first person by an erratic and vengeful Marquise. Browning uses quatrains with rhyming couplets throughout the poem, giving a calm and controlled feel with contrast dramatically with the dark, murderous theme of the poem and the erratic thoughts of the Marquise.
EXPLORE THE WAYS IN WHICH THE SPEAKER’S FEELINGS ARE PORTRAYED IN ‘THE LABORATORY’ The Laboratory was written by the famous poet Robert Browning. The story appears to be set in 17th century France during the period of the Ancien Regime. This was a time when women were seen as insubstantial and vulnerable beings and from reading this dramatic monologue we gain an understanding of how powerless they were deemed by the rest of society. This is a poem about a seemingly paranoid woman who pays an apothecary a visit mainly because she’s in search of poison(s) which she reckons would act as the proficient tool to accomplish her malicious deeds. She’s paranoid in terms of believing that her lover has been having an affair with two women who she thinks are more beautiful than her, however in stanza 3, she says “Better sit thus and observe thy strange things than go where men wait me and dance at the King’s”; this gives an idea that she’s also a beautiful woman who is likewise given attention from other men however she decides to overlook that fact and cultivate a rather vindictive temperament by refusing to let the pain and embarrassment brought upon her by her current/former lover surpass her.
Browning uses the title to set the scene for the story as “The Laboratory” is a place where scientific experiments take place but oddly in the poem it’s a place the narrator (a woman) uses the tell her feelings and plot revenge. The poem is set around the time before the French revolution which is indicated from the subtitle, “ancient regime” which was at a time of internal conflicts and civil wars’ showing it was at a violent time which could be linked to why the narrator took such drastic measures. The poem is set mainly around the place in which the apothecary man is working, where he is making the poison that will be used to kill the narrator’s enemy. The narrator is close by the apothecary man, whilst he is making the poison as she watches it, “curling whitely”, showing she wants to be involved in the preparations and see it come together This reveals a more sinister aspect behind her actions. The narrator seems to be the only voice in the text but the poem was supposed to be a conversation yet she dominates the conversation not allowing the other character present (apothecary man) to respond or get his opinion on her situation.
Both being a reason towards the woman’s slow neurotic ride to insanity. The author gives the reader insight into the 19th century sociological attitudes, especially regarding gender relations through the conflict that exists between the protagonist and her husband. As her doctor, he advises her to keep
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