1. • Name: Sonal Baraiya.
• Class: M.A. Sem-2.
• Roll No.: 26.
• Subject: P. 6 - The Victorian Age.
• Topic: The violence against Women in Robert
Browning’s Poetry.
• Submitted to: Smt.S.B. Gardi,
Department of English,
M.K. Bhavnagar University.

3. Robert Browning
• Born: May 7, 1812,
Camberwell, United
Kingdom.
• He was an English poet
and playwright.
• He famous for his
dramatic monologue.

4. Robert Browning Poems.
• My Last Duchess.
• Porphyria’s Lover.
• The Ring and the Book.
• Rabbi Ben Ezra.
• Fra Lippo Lippi.

5. Violence against Women.
Porphyria’s Lover (1836).
• Protagonist – Porphyria.
• Holds the Power.
• She love him.
• He came from lower social
status.
• Hunger for power.
• He kill her.
• ‘‘And yet God has
not said a word!’’

6. My Last Duchess
• Protagonist – Duchess.
• Duke – Her husband.
• Controlled to his wife.
• The Duchess behaved
how she wanted to
behave.
• The man is paranoid.
• Commits murder.

7. Power
Men
Power over
someone
else
Women
Freedom to
do what one
wants to do.

8. Influenced by his Era.
Queen Victoria
Condition of women in Victorian
Era.
• Symbolize the home.
• The repository of
traditional values.
• Traditional foci for the
aesthetic.

9. Thank You.