Robert Browning’s 'My Last Duchess': Explanation, Reference to Context, RTC
Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess : Explanation, Reference to Context, RTC “…………..This grew; I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together………..” Ans. These lines have been extracted from My Last Duchess by Robert Browning. Broadly speaking, this extract gives us a vent to Browning’s one of the best dramatic monologues ever. Apart from that, these couple of lines delineate the climax of the same. These words were uttered by the Duke of Ferrara to the emissary or the envoy of the Count whose daughter was about to be the new Duchess. Thus, we come to know that these words were spoken at the time of their interaction about the new marriage of the Duke. Here, it can be discerned that the Duke murdered his jubilant, innocent and simpleminded Duchess. Even after that, he is conspicuously organised in his words. He never likes to stoop, thinking of his blue blood. He is transcendentally boastful of his aristocracy. These lines startle us with fear, as and when we com...