Zusammenfassung der Ressource
My Last Duchess
- duke points portrait of duchess out to visitor
- duke says her expression was for everyone, not just him, he's annoyed
- he stoped duchess flirting, but doesn't say how
- the duke&visitor walk away&duke is marrying again
- FORM
- dramatic monologue
- speaking to you-powerful
- iambic pentameter
- natural
- enjambement
- natural
- caesura
- natural
- rhyming couplets, - educated
- steady, regular, stately
- STRUCTURE
- combination of things he mentions
- duchess' behaviour
- proud family history
- reaction
- make him sound unstable
- DRAMATIC IRONY
- what duke says is innocent but have sinister meanings - ambiguous
- POWER
- he felt the need to have control
and power over duchess
- he saw her as a possession
- STATUS
- really important to duke - he cares about it
- FEELINGS & ATTITUDES
- Pride
- possessions//status
- Jealousy
- he hated how duchess flirted with other men
- Power
- enjoys having the control over
painting unlike the actual duchess
- duke and duchess have different opinions
- 'such stuff/was courtesy, she thought , and cause
enough/for calling up that spot of joy
- duchess:thinks she's polite
- duke: think she's unfriendly.inappropiate
- duke's anger
- 'her looks went everywhere'
- duke wanted to be the only one
- duchess was nosy
- duke confronting duchess
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- he'd lower his status
- 'who'd stoop to blame'
- he'd appear jealous: weakens him