ows include behind-the-scenes acts at the end of the main program. What is usually shown is a humorous mistake made by actors while they were filming. "My Last Duchess" can take strong standings in either opposition: the duchess was completely innocent, or the woman was a complete whore who had unprotected sex with multiple men at once. Coming from a different angle, and not accusing the duke of being wrong for getting rid of her (in whatever way he did), who's to say the duchess wasn't sneaking around behind the Dukes' back. What if her smiles to various men were really a slight chuckle symbolic of multiple orgasms she recieved from other men? Therefore, whenever she chuckled like so, thoughts raced through her mind reminding her about the orgasmic pleasure that strange man, who is not the Duke, has given to her, and how the Duke will never find out. Those incarnation pink blushes upon her cheek and throat that appeared while Fra Pandolf painted her, may have been blushes of her exerting energy into a sexual encounter with the artist. Even in 1842, it is completely possible that the duchess was a whore. It can be understood why a woman of that time would be promiscuous. She was only a token of status to her husband. He loved her beauty but not her personality. Her sneaking around gave her the freedom, companionship and satisfaction she needed from a real man or men. It is known that many marriages do not last. Be it marital problems or distrust, they seem to end with the deceitful woman taking everything from the male, who at times is more innocent than the woman. Having read a poem from the 1800's, it is hard to know how relationships really were back then. People really never know until they have lived it. Complete understanding comes with experience. While reading "My Last Duchess", I came to several conclusions from both men's and women's angles: 1. The Duke was a distrusting, insecure, nervous wr...
