literary pieces by Robert Browning gave chilling imprints upon the readers. Reading the two text titled My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover are about two women killed by their partners. They are similar in that fact‚ but different in another. A main contrast is the way the women were killed. In Duchess‚ we do not know exactly how the duchess died; while in Lover‚ every detail is shared. Another important contrast is the difference in motive. Why did these men kill the women they ‘loved?’ In Duchess
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The Pathetic "Lover" The Ballad of the Sad Café‚ by Carson McCullers (1951) suggests that there are two types of people in the world: the "lover" and the "beloved". The "lover" is a pathetic character so enamored by the "beloved" that it changes his/her attitude or personality completely. The feeling is so powerful that even though it causes the "lover" excruciating pain‚ he/she continues to love. The two main characters fall under this mysterious spell and it changes their lives forever. McCullers
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Emily Bronte’s Heathcliff is epitomised throughout Wuthering Heights as a vengeful character‚ who becomes corrupted through his overwhelming jealousy and his rejection from Catherine. Rather than a protagonist of an admirable disposition‚ Heathcliff rebels against social niceties and plots against other characters to create the central conflict. However‚ Bronte allows the responder to sympathise with him‚ as his flaws are the consequence of his traumatic childhood and the tyranny Hindley Earnshaw
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Browning uses a number of different narrative techniques to tell the story in Porphyria’s Lover. The poem is written in first person‚ in past tense‚ from the perspective of our narrator who is unnamed but as the title suggests is “Porphyria’s Lover”. This means that the telling of events is not completely reliable and can be assumed to be biased. The narrator’s first line of speech‚ “I listened heart fit to break” suggests he is waiting for someone‚ maybe even longing. Browning structured this
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A concise Chinese-English dictionary for lovers by Xiaolu Guo. The main character of the book is Z. Z is a young Chinese woman who is sent to England by her parents‚ to take English classes. By sending Z to London‚ her poor parents hoped to give their daughter a better future than that they had. While Z is in London‚ she’s very lonely and experiences a culture shock. After a while of being very lonely‚ meets a men. This man is in the book referred as lover. At first the relationship goes well and
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My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover Robert Browning wrote the two poems‚ Porphyria’s Lover and My Last Duchess. In each poem‚ the speakers seem mentally disturbed. Also‚ both speakers had relationships with "strong" women who‚ despite apparently loving them‚ they each ended up killing. Strangely enough‚ both men seem to be much happier after they have committed these murders. The murders in these poems deal with power based on gender. The females have the power and the men do not. The men feel
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poems Porphyria’s Lover’ and My Last Duchess’ by Robert Browning. What do they reveal about attitudes to women and relationships in the nineteenth century?</b></center> <br> <br>Robert Browning was one of the greatest poets of the nineteenth century. In 1842‚ he published Dramatic Lyrics’ which included the two poems Porphyria’s Lover’ and My Last Duchess’. In Porphyria’s Lover’ Browning gives the reader a dramatic insight into the twisted mind of an abnormally possessive lover‚ who wishes the
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Last vs Lover A critical analysis over Last and Lover Robert Browning’s two dramatic monologues‚ My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover share several similarities and differences. He shows two distinct stories that shows the love between two people‚ and the qualities that led to the influence of both deaths. “There is no love without forgiveness‚ and there is no forgiveness without love” (Bryant H. McGill). This quote ties into both stories because the men lack one of the most important parts of
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My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover. Robert Browning is pre-20th century poet who has written various pieces. We are looking at My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover. Both pieces are very similar in more ways than one. The Lover in the poem Porphyria’s Lover is a lonely‚ depressed man who does not like Porphyria being with her family. In the end‚ this leads him to killing her. In My Last Duchess the Duke is a very selfish and wealthy man‚ he does not like the duchess smiling and being happy
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Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers‚ European Identities and the Cultural Politics of Exclusion in Colonial Southeast Asia. Ann Laura Stoler & Race and the Education of Desire‚ Fauoult’s History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things. Ann Laura Stoler Introduction We will be presenting two essays by Ann Laura Stoler. The first essay‚ “Race and the Education of Desire”‚ Foucault’s history of sexuality discusses class‚ race and desire in terms of family and state regulations which
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