My Last Duchess

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Political power

Men having power over women

Internal conflict

• Internal conflict
• Gender discrimination- criticism to Victorian society and the fixation of women being perfect

Context:

• Set in Italy
• Published in Victorian era
• Industrial revolution, mass emigration from country to city to work in factory

Women:

• When wen married they became legal property of her husband
• Women still seen as less than men but are improving due to suffragettes
• Can't vote
• Believed that women where incapable of rational thought.
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