There are many trivial incidents that produced the response of killing his wife from Duke. Throughout the book, he explains many events and why he feels that he is unvalued. He says, “She had A heart...Too easily impressed.(Line ” This makes the Duchess seem shallow. Another incident is when he says “She thanked men, - good! but thanked..as if she ranked My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name with anybody's gift." The Duke is telling us that she treats anyone's gift equally to his. This makes him feel jealous, and he thinks that his gift should be worth more to him than anyone else's.
Friday, October 26, 2012
Jealousy, Painted on the Wall
3. The Duke eliminated (divorced? sent to a convent? had executed or poisoned?) his last duchess because (he felt) she undervalued him and treated him much as she treated other men. Which trivial incidents in particular seem to have produced this response in the Duke?
There are many trivial incidents that produced the response of killing his wife from Duke. Throughout the book, he explains many events and why he feels that he is unvalued. He says, “She had A heart...Too easily impressed.(Line ” This makes the Duchess seem shallow. Another incident is when he says “She thanked men, - good! but thanked..as if she ranked My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name with anybody's gift." The Duke is telling us that she treats anyone's gift equally to his. This makes him feel jealous, and he thinks that his gift should be worth more to him than anyone else's.
There are many trivial incidents that produced the response of killing his wife from Duke. Throughout the book, he explains many events and why he feels that he is unvalued. He says, “She had A heart...Too easily impressed.(Line ” This makes the Duchess seem shallow. Another incident is when he says “She thanked men, - good! but thanked..as if she ranked My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name with anybody's gift." The Duke is telling us that she treats anyone's gift equally to his. This makes him feel jealous, and he thinks that his gift should be worth more to him than anyone else's.
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