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Discuss the use Browning makes of the Dramatic Monologue
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Browning’s monologues consist of an uninterrupted narrative, spoken by a single character, to a specific audience. The speaker is not Browning himself, but a persona that the he has created. Browning creates a living, breathing human being, with a complex history and view of the world quite easily.
‘My Last Duchess’ is about a duke; he is speaking to a non-responding representative of the family of a prospective new duchess. It reveals the reasons for his disapproval of the behaviour of his former duchess and also aspects of his own personality. It is in iambic pentameter and has rhyming couplets that are overridden by enjambment; this helps it create a conversational mood. In many of Browning’s Dramatic Monologues the speaker re
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