• 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.
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