Tone Of My Last Duchess

Mehreen Tai
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TONE:
In “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning portrays the tone as Incensed and proprietorial by showing possesive behavior and anger towards the Duchess. Throughout the poem the narrator’s actions and words show how possesive he is of the Duchess. He gets angry if she is polite to anyone but him. The narrator, after he learned that the Duchess encountered with other men, got jealous and couldn’t control his emotins. He took some strong, vengeful steps portraying an incensed tone. In the poem it states, “She thanked men, - good! but thanked / somehow - I know not how.” This quote shows the narrator is getting furious at the Duchess. He is speaking in short, abrupt sentences to show that he is suprised that the Duchess is able to look past him and

This is important because as readers this quote conveys the idea that the narrator is angry at the Duchess due to her unnecessary attention towards other men. Eventually through the poem the narrator also shows a possesive tone. The narrator got so jealous of the other men and was angry at the Duchess so much, that it didn’t bother him to take her life. He assumed that she deserved it with out a sought out reasoning. The narrator states, “This grew; I gave commands / then all smiles stopped.” This quote shows that the narrator ordered the Duchess to be murdered. The narrator is excersicing his right to control everyone since he has authority and power. This is important because it tells us that the narrator is someone important. He thinks he is higher than everyone and that he has the authority to punish anyone and has the right to do choose the punishment. By ordering the Duchess to be killed, the narrator