My_Last_Duchess_Poem_Analysis

My Last Duchess Poem Analysis Picture Frame Bill Cosby once said, “It’s not a lack of love, but a lack of trust that makes an unhappy marriage.” Would a man kill his wife if he didn’t trust her' Narrating his own tale of possessiveness, jealousy, and murder, the husband in Robert Browning’s poem “My Last Duchess” intentionally justifies his dead wife’s actions. The husband in Browning’s poem considered his most prized possession to be his wife. Like household objects the husband considered his wife to be no less then just a thing. In his opening statements the husband introduces his dead wife in a painting he had made to be placed on his mantle. The husband obviously felt that just like a chair or a table, he had every right to the painting and the person inside. He told her how to behave and even in the end not to smile at all. Another factor that made the husband tighten his hold on his wife was that his “gift of a nine-hundred-year-old name” which he felt wasn’t considered the same to his wife like everyone else’s gift. The husband felt that his name wasn’t valued to her, as much as he did. Finally, he expressed his attitude duchess, wife, husband, felt, being, toward, made, lack, just, didn’t, considered, caused, actions, wife’s, wasn’t, unfaithful, trust, society, possessiveness, position, poem, painting, open, one, name, might, men, marriage, jealousy, impressed, browning’s, wanted, supposed, statue, social, robert