How does Browning show the balance of power between men and women in :: English Literature

How does Browning show the balance of power between men and women inMy Last Duchess and Porphryrias L everywhere?In these two poems Robert Browning shows the balance of power inmale-female relationships. Both are very similar in the way that they submit the women having more power than they should have, and the mennot having the power they think they should have.In the first poem, My Last Duchess, Browning shows the Duke nothaving full control over his wife, the Duchess. In the second poem,Porphyrias Lover, the narrator does not have control because she isin a higher class and cannot be with him and she would lower her classand she is not ready to surpass it up.In My Last Duchess, the Duke is talking to someone about the deadDuchess. He first refers to power over the Duchess in the poem when hesays about the scene of her behind the curtain, and if anybodywants to see it they would have to ask him first,Since none puts byThe curtain I have drawn for you, but IThis shows that he stil l has control over her even though she haspassed on. After that he writes about how every little detail seemedto please her,She hadA heart how shall I say... too soon do glad,Too easily impressed she liked whateerShe looked on, and her looks went everywhere.The Duke gets quite angry at this point,The bough of cherries some officious foolBroke in the orchard for her,This is about how a man broke into the orchard, took a bunch of cherryblossom and gave it to the duchess, and made her very pleased, whichas you can understand he can fall through her far-off better things than a commonman can give,As if she rankedMy gift of a nine-hundred-years-old nameWith anybodys gift.He gave her his old and important family name which most women wouldgive their happiness to have, when she married him, which in theDukes eyes is better than anything else in the world.He says that to comment on this behaviour is stooping down to a lowerlevel,And I chooseNever to stoopThe Duchesss behaviour becomes be yond tolerable next,Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt,Whener I passed her but who passed withoutMuch the same smile? This grew I gave commandsThen all smiles halt together.This greatly suggests that the Duke thought he had the power over theDuchess, and used it to order someone to kill her, although he doesntdirectly say but he powerfully hints it. But Browning cleverly wrote the