In "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning, the reader is introduced to the dramatic monologue. A dramatic monologue is a speech in the speaker unknowingly reveals his personality. In this poem, the audience listens to a monologue of the Duke of Ferrara who is soon getting married in which he sees the portrait of his deceased Duchess and brings up her faults to an unknown envoy only know as "sir!" l.54. Through the Duke's ramblings, it is learned that he is a self-centered, materialistic, proud and chauvinistic man. He has a high rank in nobility assumed because he was married...
women-thirsty and power-hungry man. He knew what he wanted and if he did not get it, he took drastic measures to insure his success in further endeavors. In this second marriage, he will either be jilted or have complete success for the envoy will go back with the story of the portrait and the Count will either hide his daughter or give her away without any qualms. If he does get left at the altar though, it would not even bother the Duke. He would just have more time to play his game of hunter and the little prey.