Browning And His Trickery

(2) The way that Browning makes us fell sympathy for a character who seems incontrovertibly ignorant is by giving us only one view. An example of this is is a campaign commercial for a candidate, they only give the view of one person that way the audience votes for them, similar to what Browning is doing. If the poet gave us another character to get a good sense of the Duke, then our view of them would probably be different. Also, no other character can highlight the speakers character so we cannot get an appropriate view of how the speaker killed her or how he really feels about her or even if this type of obsession is okay in this setting. An example of a moment that were easily persuaded to have feelings for her is,"The Count your master's known munificence is ample warrant that no just pretence of mine for dowry will be disallowed..."  For all we know, it could be a ritual of some sort to mourn over someones death which is why we feel sympathy for the speaker, because we make up excuses for him because we don't believe what he is doing is appropriate without knowing the views of the other characters.