Here are multiple-choice questions (MCQs) with answers based on "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning: 1. Who is the speaker in "My Last Duchess"? a) A nobleman speaking to a servant b) The Duke of Ferrara c) The Duchess herself d) A painter Answer: b) The Duke of Ferrara 2. What is the main subject of the Duke’s monologue? a) His political power b) A portrait of his late wife c)...

Though the poem, My Last Duchess by Robert Browningis an unfogettable dramatic monologue of the Duke of Ferrara, but by his conversation with he Envoy of the Count, we get a fair idea of the character of Duchess also. She appears to have been a frank, good-natured, lovable woman. What the Duke thought to be her vulgarity was infact her amiability; what he looked upon as silly in her...

This significant quoted part is taken from a famous dramatic monologue, "My Last Duchess", by Robert Browning, a famous poet of Victorian Era. This poem is published in 1842 in "Dramatic Romances".             In this poem, we find that the Duke talks with the envoy of a Count about his second marriage. But incidentally, he directs the attention of the...

Robert Browning in his famous dramatic monologue, "My Last Duchess", uses this line. Here 'smiles' suggest the smile of Duchess who was very much tender, gentle, amicable and obliging to everybody. But the Duke is very much jealous and mean minded who everytime doubted his wife. He did not like the Duchess's behaviour to everyone. She did not differ common people from her husband and...