Literary Analyse of My Last Duchess

In the nerve of the nineteenth century, approximately of the British people started to live in large cities thanks to industrial Revolution, but this situation brought several(prenominal) down-sides into the daily behavior of citizens such(prenominal) as poverty, violence and only freedom in sex. These things became the public parts of daily emotional state after a while. more or less of the popular writers of that period chose to physical exercise these down-sides in their writings in order to affect their readers more and more.\nRobert Browning, who wrote My Last Duchess in 1842, was unitary of the authors who used these down-sides of city life-time in their writings.\nMy Last Duchess is compose down in first person narrator phallic protagonist point of view. The vocalizer in the poetry is most likely Alfonso II dEste, the fifth part Duke of Ferrera, who is noble with his surname alike much as it mentioned in the poem at the 33th stanza with [m]y enthrone of a ni ne-hundred-years-old name (Browning), cant contend with her wifes warm reputation and kills her. This beastly habit of the Duke and the warm nature of the wife in this poem have lots of emblematic meanings as reflections of the down-sides of the city life that I mentioned above.\nFirst of all, how women be cruelly domesticated by the hegemony of masculinity is one of the major(ip) themes of My Last Duchess. Even vertical being kind, polite and glad person is totally molest thing as a woman who lives in that era. professor Clinton Machann says in the Brownings Chivalrous Christianity section of his book Masculinity in Four Victorian Epics: A Darwinist Reading that,\nThird, apart from Brownings family with his wife, an emphasis on sexual practice and - of special interest here- convoluted themes related to masculinity, are fundamental to his work as a whole. ... Browning probably imitate this classic portrait of an downcast male domestic tyrant on Alfonso II, fifth an d cultivation duke of Ferrara (1553-97), whose young bride Lucrezia died under hush-hush circumstances in 1561 (Ma...