Women's Behavior in Coleridge's Christabel and Browning's My Last Duchess
Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Browning wrote in two different eras.
Coleridge's "Christabel" and Browning's "My Last Duchess" both deal with
women's sexuality. The women of the poems are both presented as having
sinned. Christabel's own belief that she has sinned is based on how a
woman of her time was supposed to behave. The Duchess's sin is that she
violates the code of conduct for a noble wife. Yet, can the modern reader
really feel these women did anything wrong? The only sin in these two
poems is that women are supposed to suppress their emotions. The real
problem is that they defied the idea that women are not supposed to be as
sexually open as men. A woman was only to behave as these two women did
towards their husband, and even with him do so behind closed doors. Women
were to serve as the "Angel in the House" both of these women defy that
image. That type of thinking is characteristic of Romantic and Victorian
standards of women. This is especially true of the upper classes to which
Christabel and the Duchess belong.
Coleridge raises the question: "What happens to a woman's self-image when
she defies social expectations?" Christabel struggles with this question
throughout the poem because she defies the standards for how a woman
should behave sexually. However, Coleridge is not trying to makes
Christabel a heroine for doing so. The poem has more to do with the effect
of breaking rules on women. Coleridge depicts Christabel as a young woman
discovering herself. She has no taste for convention, as one can see by
her wandering around in the woods at night. Apparently, this is not proper
behavior, as the poet describes her action in a scolding tone, "What makes
her in the woods so late, / A furlong from the castle gate?" (Coleridge
25-26). The reader is given the idea from the beginning that Christabel is
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