Discussion on An Investigation and Enquiry into Monologues.

Need help with my writing homework on An Investigation and Enquiry into Monologues. Write a 1750 word paper answering; Coming to the origin of monologues, dramatic monologues are a literary product of the 19th century. They can be labeled appropriately as the Victorian invention as the form was invented and practiced mainly by the Victorian poets including Robert Browning, Tennyson, Rossetti, and others. The earliest articulation of dramatic monologues can be identified with the advent of the intelligent criminal in the Victorian periods, and the growing concern for exploring the criminal psyche (Sinfield, 1977). A dramatic monologue is also a kind of performative psychoanalysis as it attempts to explore the speaker’s mind. Browning is highly regarded for his ability to create devious characters in his poems. His monologues portray a complex characterization of the speakers although in a subtler way. In “My Last Duchess”, Browning’s speaker is a pompous Italian Duke who shows off the portrait of his young gracious wife he had executed. The speaker’s dissatisfaction with his wife’s unaffected graciousness is prominent in the monologue as quoted by Sinfield (Sinfield 4),