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In “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning, how do the duke and the duchess differ?

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The Duke is the epitome and a obsessed husband
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User Stefano Palazzo
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Quite apart from the anatomical differences, the Duke happens to be alive and the Duchess happens to be dead. As well as that, it was the Duke who did her in, so to speak.
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