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Picture Frame Bill Cosby once said, "It's not a lack of love, but a lack of trust that makes an unhappy marriage." Would a man kill his wife if he didn't trust her? Narrating his own tale of possessiveness, jealousy, and murder, the husband in Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess" unintentionally justifies his dead wife's actions. The husband in Browning's poem considered his most prized possession to be his wife. Like household objects the …

…Browning's poem "My Last Duchess," never thoroughly justifies his actions for murdering his wife. His lack for not understanding the burden that his position in society left on his wife caused him to believe that she was being unfaithful rather than being social. For a husband to take such drastic measures as to eliminate his wife would mean that he planned out all his reasons, but to kill her on his bases alone is irrational.