My Last Dutchess Character Analyzing
My last Duchess
"That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, looking as if she were alive." The duck of Ferrara starts his monologue with a sight of regret that raises the sympathy of the readers and makes them feel that he had lost his beloved wife and is very upset about that. However, in the next few sentences he reveals the dark side of his character and brings the readers to a realization that the Duck of Ferrara is not a noble gentle man. In fact, he is a hysteric murderer who has killed his wife and is very arrogant, possessive, and oppressive.
Like many other renaissance Ducks, The duck of Ferrara is very arrogant and selfish. He is very proud of himself and his ancestors. He believes it is his wife's privilege to be married with him and she should be thankful for "the gift of a nine-hundred –year's-old name" that he gave her. The fact that "[his] favor at her breast, the dropping of the daylight in the west, the bough of cherries some officious fool broke in......
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