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Shakespeare and Browning both effectively portray disturbed characters in their text to explore greater social issues. Shakespeare explores the issues of regicide in order to inform the reader about the consequences of treason. Shakespeare explores the inequality of woman rights by using the character Lady Macbeth and how she treats Macbeth. Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth as a manipulative, deceptive woman by Lady Macbeth leading Macbeth into self-indulgence. Shakespeare enforces the importance of 'divine rights of kings' and stresses the kings rights. By Macbeth killing king Duncan, he has committed regicide which is a sin. This goes against the divine rights of kings as Macbeth becomes king after he kills king Duncan and linking to the 'divine rights of kings' her has committed a sin. Also Shakespeare explores the outcome of manipulation and mental control by including the three witches. These three witches filled Macbeth's head with negativity and depravity. This results into Macbeth becoming very disturbed and traumatized.
Moreover Browning explores the issues within the Victorian society in order to inform the reader about the different ways of life for others and the thoughts of others. Browning shows the difference in men and woman during the Victorian era and how Porphyria was very light hearted towards the way women were in that time. Porphyria had the image of a mistress other than the image of a woman so it was very simple for 'Porphyria's Lover' to take advantage of her and class her as 'weak'. Also browning introduced the concern of 'mixed status relationships' and 'sex out of wedlock'. These were major concerns for the Victorian society because these were rules for this kind of behaviour specifically to stop people getting carried away. Additionally, Browning highlights how disturbed 'Porphyria's Lover' actually is as he feels that there is no God if God hasnt yet voiced the fact that what he did was wrong. This shown that he has clearly gone insane and is trying to convince himself that what he did was wrong but not too bad to be punished for it.

Both of the texts use metaphorical language to create imagery. In 'Macbeth', lady Macbeth uses a metaphor “and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full.” to show the audience that she has been consumed by evil and wants power over Macbeth. This shows that she is very disturbed because she starts shouting out very dangerous requests and calling spirits, “come, you spirits”. Also Lady Macbeth says “unsex me here” which means she has no desire to be a man or a woman but an embodiment of evil/spirits. In 'Porphyria's Lover' he uses a metaphor to create imagery, “I listened with heart fit to break”. This already hints to the reader that he might be mentally unstable. This shows that the weather creates an impact on his mood. This is know as 'pathetic fallacy'. By this stage we already know that he is disturbed. Also on the first four lines of the poem it describes the weather until the fifth line, where a person is actually introduced which is very effective and gives away a part of the characters personality.

Both of the texts use rhetorical language to make the characters sound very troubled. In 'Macbeth' lady Macbeth is talking to Macbeth about how to perceive himself, “look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't”. this shows that Lady Macbeth has all power over Macbeth and has some how gained power over Macbeth by manipulation and control. Also by using the word 'flower' and 'serpent' its trying to imply that Macbeth needs to be determined and deadly inside but be innocent and friendly on the outside so that nobody suspects any evil.
Moreover in 'Porphyria's Lover' he uses repetition to persuade himself that it isn’t as bad as it looks “no pain felt she”,“I am quite sure she felt no pain”. By repeating 'no pain' he’s trying to imply that he hasn’t done her any harm and it was for the best. Also there is a personification on the 45th line of the poem showing how disturbed he is “laughed the blue eyes without stain” which is very creepy and psychopathic thing to say because your eyes cannot laugh, especially when your dead so why would he say such an odd thing?

Both of the texts use descriptive language to make the extracts more interesting and keeps the reader reading. In 'Macbeth' lady Macbeth uses many ungodly words that gets the reader thinking, “make thick my blood; stop up the access and passage to remorse.” “nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark”. These two quotes are really powerful and sums up how disarranged lady Macbeth is. Lady Macbeth wants to be pure evil with no kindness in her whatsoever which later on affects her. I find that these two quotes are very descriptive and straight to the point. Lady Macbeth is expressing her feeling without holding back which is very effective.
However in 'Porphyria's Lover' the speaker says “that moment she was mine, mine, fair, perfectly pure and good” which shows that Porphyria worshipped him and he found it was the right time to take advantage of the situation and later on strangles her with her hair. Also the speaker refers to Porphyria as 'his' possession and repeats the word 'mine' to emphasise the fact that she is 'his'.i found this quote was very descriptive because these were the last few words said before he decides to strangle her which is very effective.

To conclude,as a modern audience I feel that the writers have definitely highlighted the fact that these two texts explored disturbed and also that these two texts are very different but yet very alike. Linking back to my introduction I think that by including the 'the Victorian era' and 'Victorian society' in Macbeth definitely highlighted how disturbed the characters are and without including those hidden agenda’s to the text, there wouldn’t be any real explanation as to why these characters were so disturbed.

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