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My Last Duchess Robert Browning's, "My Last Duchess" fascinates us with its murder and mystery. This dramatic monologue dates back to the renaissance where poetry and art shared their glamour. This art is admired by an aristocratic character in "My Last Duchess", who is referred to as the duke, whose personality we infer through his monologue. The very first line of the monologue indicates to us that the duke is an important man and in at a high position. As the line says, "That's my last duchess painted on the wall", shows us that the duke has had some more duchesses before, and that happens mostly only in royal families. As we learn later, the duke has a guest over his place, whose daughter he is about to marry. This silent listener of the monologue is being shown around the duke's castle by him, which seems to be filled with...

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