Comparing Relationships In My Last Duchess, And Wuthering Heights

Explore how writers present the theme destructive love and how this affects relationships in Macbeth, “My last Duchess”, and wuthering Heights. In these stories/plays there is many different relationships. Therefore in this research paper there will be explanation about the different loves and power struggles. In Macbeth, My last Duchess, and Wuthering Heights the writers show a consent power struggle within relationships. First, In my last Duchess the Duke killed his wife because there was not any communication and she was not faithful to the Duke. The Duke kills his wife because she showed a lot of affection to other men “Just this or that disgusts me” (Browning 38). Even Though he didn’t know who the men were he thought she was still having an affair with the men. Since he didn’t trust her, he thought he needed it stop what was happening by killing his wife “There she stands as if alive” (Browning 46-47). In the story Browning uses dramatic monologue with his communication by his breach of talking to

Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth the king was dined. Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth he no longer intend to kill duncan. Lady Macbeth told Macbeth he had to kill duncan or he was not a true man “When you durst do it then you were a man” (Shakespeare 49). Lady Macbeth got so angry and upset with Macbeth she called him a coward and questions his manhood after telling her he doesn’t want to kill him (You would be so much more the man” (Macbeth 1.7 50-51). After Macbeth kill Duncan Lady macbeth was being all calm and trying to calm Macbeth down now that she got her way. Now that Duncan is dead Lady Macbeth is spending much time keeping Macbeth calm after he knows he committed the crime of killing him “a little water clears us of the deed” (Macbeth 2.2.67). In the story Macbeth uses a metaphor uses a metaphor to compare Duncan and Macbeth to see is she should kill