My Last Duchess

s, the duke tries to limit her scope to himself and a few privileged others. He is able to show her off contrary to the way she was in life. Hence the audience is disgusted by the Duke's possessive character.
             In "Porphyria's Lover" the audience also sees a similar possessive character in the speaker. This man wishes to possess and dominate a creature whom he believes should be his. In this case, the speaker remains nameless, implying that this could be any man in the same circumstance. The reader sees the same dilemma in the speaker's voice as already discussed above about the Duke's, since neither one can control his lover. He wants her love all to himself. He feels
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