Porphyria's Lover Analysis

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Is obsession really a good thing? It can control your entire life and make you do things you wouldn’t have ever seen yourself doing before. The most Dangerous Game is a story about a hunter who gets far too obsessed with hunting and starts hunting people. Porphyria’s Lover is a poem about a man who loves a girl so much and wants to be with her forever, and knowing that her family wouldn’t allow it, he kills her so he can stay with her. In the story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” by Richard Connell, and the poem, “Porphyria’s Lover,” by Robert Browning,” both passages use conflict and irony to convey that when an individual becomes obsessed, it can lead to something much more dangerous, and sometimes the effects can be irreversible. Both passages