In Browning’s "My Last Duchess," how does the Duke’s aestheticization of his late wife’s image serve as a critique of the objectifying gaze implicit in both Renaissance art and Victorian sexuality?
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By highlighting the transformation of subjects into passive objects.
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By exposing the voyeuristic pleasure derived from dominance.
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By challenging the ethical implications of possessive aesthetics.
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By foregrounding the intersection of artistic creativity and moral decay.