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Is the speaker in the poem right or wrong? Every individual must ask this simple question after reading Robert Browning’s dramatic monologues. Like a painter, Browning creates a protrait of a person for the world to analyse carefully. After examining, a conc ....

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.... and issues concerning the speaker’s life, the reader forms a moral approval or disapproval. Thus, the dramatic monologue has a central objective: The reader must determine a final judgment of the speaker. In his dramatic monologues, Browning expresses his own convictions through the use of grotesque art. As the term implies, vile, rebuked, heartless, and failing human beings are presented in Browning’s glaring poems. “He often selects the eccentric, the morally deformed, the man with a grudge, a guilt, a secret or a crime to his credit. He chooses them for effect.”(Schmidt 380) Although these incongruous subjects seem abominable to ....