The Duke killed his last duchess. He did this because he felt that she undervalued him and treated him like all the other men around; he was nothing special to her.
“Oh sir, she smiled no doubt,
Whene’er I passed her; but who passed without
Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;
Then all smiles stopped together (Browning, 43).”
The poem “My Last Duchess” shows that she doesn’t really care. She smiles the same way to every man she sees, I would want to kill her for that too. Even now when you love someone there is a different feature they have towards you and no one else, like a smile, it is not an intentional change, but there is an uncontrollable change that is unexplainable. The Duke can see that there is no change and wonders why because his probably changes and then he realizes that he is the same as all the others and that she doesn’t really love him.
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