The Use of Dramatic Monologue to Create Moral Dilemma in Browning's "Porphyria's Lover"

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…the speaker, possibly cannot be comprehended by the modern reader. By comparing dramatic monologue, and other techniques used by Browning in poems like 'Porphyria's Lover,' to situations and events, like our modern legal institution, it is possible to better understand it and its importance to literature. Because, according to Lucie-Smith, ' Robert Browning, more than any other Victorian, is responsible for the direction taken by our own literature, and foreshadowing many of its characteristics' (29).