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My Last Duchess 3
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In Browning’s My Last Duchess, it appears that the Duke would have had the Duchess attend only to him. The Duchess is portrayed as someone that is easily pleased. In the passages:
Her husband's presence only, called that spot
Of joy into .... Middle of Term Paper
... some officious fool
Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule
She rode with round the terrace …
The first example, “My favor at her breast,” shows that she found pleasure in the attention that the Duke showed to her. Yet, Browning leads us to believe that she equated this intimate contact with something as simple as the sun setting, “The dropping of the daylight in the West.” In the following passage the reader is given the first glimpse of what probably led the Duke to such a violent act:
She thanked men -- good! but thanked
Somehow -- I know not how -- as if she ranked
My gift of a nine-hund ... |
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