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Browning’s Dramatic Monologue and Mulvey’s Feminist Film Theory
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My aim in this paper is to provide a clear view of Victorian gender ideology and highlight the role played by Browning’s dramatic monologues in the challenge against the strict patriarchal codes of the era. Laura Mulvey’s Male Gaze theory in cinema is especially useful for understanding Browning’s most well-known dramatic monologues, “Porphyria’s Lover,” and “My Last Duchess,” because these poems are structured by polarities of looking and being looked at, the active and the passive. In her 1975 essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”, Mulvey introduced the second-wave feminist concept of “male gaze” as a feature of gender power asymmetry in film. To gaze implies more than to look at – it signifies a psychological relationship of power, in which the gazer is superior to the object of the gaze. She declares that in patriarchal society pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. Browning’s women are subject to the male gaze, but they refuse to become the objects of a scopophilic pleasure-in-looking. Porphyria and the Duchess don’t exist in order to satisfy the desires and pleasures of men. They reveal themselves as an autonomous being - reserved in Victorian gender dynamics for men. Mulvey advocates ‘an alternative cinema’ which can challenges the male-dominated Hollywood ideology. It is possible to say that Browning’s dramatic monologues correspond to Mulvey’s ‘alternative cinema’ because they show a counterview in terms of the representation of woman against the Victorian patriarchal ideology.
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My aim in this paper is to provide a clear view of Victorian gender ideology and highlight the role played by Browning’s dramatic monologues in the challenge against the strict patriarchal codes of the era. Laura Mulvey’s Male Gaze theory in cinema is especially useful for understanding Browning’s most well-known dramatic monologues, “Porphyria’s Lover,” and “My Last Duchess,” because these poems are structured by polarities of looking and being looked at, the active and the passive. In her 1975 essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”, Mulvey introduced the second-wave feminist concept of “male gaze” as a feature of gender power asymmetry in film. To gaze implies more than to look at – it signifies a psychological relationship of power, in which the gazer is superior to the object of the gaze. She declares that in patriarchal society pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. Browning’s women are subject to the male gaze, but they refuse to become the objects of a scopophilic pleasure-in-looking. Porphyria and the Duchess don’t exist in order to satisfy the desires and pleasures of men. They reveal themselves as an autonomous being - reserved in Victorian gender dynamics for men. Mulvey advocates ‘an alternative cinema’ which can challenges the male-dominated Hollywood ideology. It is possible to say that Browning’s dramatic monologues correspond to Mulvey’s ‘alternative cinema’ because they show a counterview in terms of the representation of woman against the Victorian patriarchal ideology.
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