Last Duchess Flashcards
Quote for last duchess
Both are based around art where main characters have ordered to be producted . Men who display their wealth and power through srt, duke orders fra pandolf to paint picture as if posession. She was them offered to beI gave commands then all smiles stopped together, begins with dramatic monolgue, begins conversational and informal until “if they durst” power over people who shouldnt dare question him, reader anxious to know if duchess “ as if she were alive” died. Browning hints that Duke along with power carries jealousy and insecurity and therfore people with power are prone to using in harmful ways through jealousy. Duchess innocent pleasure in everyday things like “bough of cherries” is offensive as she doesnt properly value his expensive gift.. regards jealousy as reasonable for man with status as he feels to dicus. With wife is “to stoop” which implies placing yourself below someone else.. he choses “ never to stoops “ and gave commands. Implies last duchess murderes - an apalling admission which he thinks reasonable. Context middle ages, women and girls virtually sold by familys and could be dispensed by husbands if not pleased. Eve. More appling , browning reveals end the visitor , an emissary from count whom duke is negotiating next marriage. Reader fears for next duchess given fate of lasy. Coldness of “dowry “ negotiations apalls us of male abuse of power. Duke casually turns to other posesions “statue of neptune”god of sea dukes desire for dominance and control. While the dike can continue to abuse power by another bride , wroganve amd self importanve does not last for ever, ozymandias “ wrinkled lip” and brow and remnants of faded power howevrr rich and powerful man be , it will never last. Browning use rhyming couplet for dramatic monologue seem liek speech.. due to his use of enjabment and sentences wher speaker seems to add side comment s as if improvising. Aloows voice and persona to emerge gradually. Begins and ends when duke enters and departs to recreatd real life and seem natural. Shellys choice of form in ozymandious conveys a messgwe. The sonnet is precise and complex which he manipulates by varying standard verse linking the first 8 lines to last 6 with the rhyme of kimgs . The formal and carefully organised form represents the sculptures original completeness and indestructability. Clear that power of the king described doesnt last forever and gives a warning. At the end of brownings power,reader feels discusted as duke left to do as he pleases with women as possesions, power of him And around h8m,victrosin reader status od women
Quote for ozymandeous
Shelley tells the story told to him by “ a traveller from antique land”of collosal statue found it desert. “ my name is ozymandeous, look on my works ye mighty and despair” “ trunkless legs of stone” “ shattered visage, . No matter how mighty a ruler may be during their life, time and the elements willl destroy their legacy8shelly attacking napolean bonaparte french emperoras he is dictator and napolean was in fear that he might invade comparing with dead pharoh rameses
