Porphyria's Lover

Question 1

The basics:

Context:

• browming was one of the romantics
• porphyria disease can result in madness
• dramatic monologue
• attitudr to women of the time,seen as threatening if they were independent/or anything other than a passivd figure hence his use of possessive language -he ‘owns’ her
• women expected to be pure/porphyria considered to be sinful by society because she was with her lover/she is ‘punished’ because of this
• pathetic fallacy part of victorian literary conventions elements of the goth

Answer 1

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