• Name: Sonal Baraiya.

• Class: M.A. Sem-2.

• Roll No.: 26.

• Subject: P. 6 - The Victorian Age.

• Topic: The violence against Women in Robert Browning’s Poetry.

• Submitted to: Smt.S.B. Gardi,

Department of English,

M.K. Bhavnagar University.

Robert Browning• Born: May 7, 1812,

Camberwell, United Kingdom.

• He was an English poet and playwright.

• He famous for his dramatic monologue.

Robert Browning Poems.• My Last Duchess.

• Porphyria’s Lover.

• The Ring and the Book.

• Rabbi Ben Ezra.

• Fra Lippo Lippi.

Violence against Women.

Porphyria’s Lover (1836).• Protagonist – Porphyria.

• Holds the Power.

• She love him.

• He came from lower social status.

• Hunger for power.

• He kill her.

• ‘‘And yet God has not said a word!’’

My Last Duchess• Protagonist – Duchess.

• Duke – Her husband.

• Controlled to his wife.

• The Duchess behaved how she wanted to behave.

• The man is paranoid.

• Commits murder.

Power

Men

Power over someone

else

Women

Freedom to do what one wants to do.

Influenced by his Era.

Queen VictoriaCondition of women in Victorian Era.

• Symbolize the home.

• The repository of traditional values.

• Traditional foci for the aesthetic.

Thank You.