my last duchess

Question 1

form

Answer 1

dramatic monologue
spoken entirely by the duke
no reply shows duke self importance
in ryhming cuplets -giving the ellution of holeness want to couple another partner
no equality between the duke andd the duchess
been heavily rehearsed-man feels he is completely above the law
danger of paytriarcle society
men in society have too much power is a corruption -leads to murder

Question 2

that’s my last duchess painted on the wall looking as if she was alive.i call

Answer 2

ensharment duke is trying to despise he is talking in rhyming cuplits despises it is a fully prepared speech
claim that he has no skill in speaking
last as an allusion to death
last -latest in a long of duchess painting on the wall I a fresco -panted in one day shows ihis errancy to get the painting done with represent the errancy to have her ckilled
show how visits and callous he is. links to his callous sense of humer

Question 3

twas not just her husbands presence only called that spot of joy onto the duchesses cheek

Answer 3

because he was there there was no possibility that she was flirting with fra pandolf
fria in short for munck
spot indicates sin the sin of having joy in life
duke doesn’t experience joy unless it is something he owns

Question 4

as if she ranked my gift of a nine-hundred-year-old name with anybodies gift

Answer 4

has not learnt her pace in the patriarch and the class system
doesn’t realise the the dukes name is the greatest gift
status does not mean anything to her
cutplet thanked and ranked have 11 sylible lines intead of 10 the shows when the duck looses control forces the reader to ask why
juxtaposition

Question 5

but who passed without much the same smile? this grew; i gave commands; then all smiles stoped all together

Answer 5

not giving more respect to him than anyone els doesn’t know her place so then she is excited
smiles plural could mean another partner
passed=no interest in her what so ever also uthamism for death
attacking the ruling classes say they are heartless obsessed with wealth and don’t care about the common classes

Question 6

notice Neptune ,though, tameing a sea-horse, thought a rarity which clause for Innsbruck cast in bronze for me

Answer 6

neptune is represented as the duck in his mind he has the power of life and death
sea horse=last duchess and next one
patriacl society where men are treated like gods and women are treated less than human tamed by their husbands
ends with me

Question 7

context