Crazy In Love


A general meaning of the term psychopath is when a person with an antisocial personality

disorder, manifested in aggressive, perverted, criminal, amoral behavior without empathy or

remorse. (Webster New Collegiate Dictionary)The term can also be used to illustrate a mental

and unstable person. A psychopath is exemplified in Robert Browning's poem Porphyria's

Lover," In this dramatic monologue the speaker describes how and why he murders his dear

Porphyria. The speaker displays his psychotic his characteristics through his jealousy , possessive

behavior and his self deception.


One of the psychotic characteristics of the speaker would be his jealously. Browning

makes it quite obvious to the reader that Porphyria is an upper-class woman by describing her

wardrobe ‘[She] withdrew the dripping cloak and shawl, and laid her solid gloves by, untied her

hat and let her damp hair fall"(lines......

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