Similarities and Differences between the Depictions of two C

The two characters, Tom Hauptman from Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon (The Time-Traveler), and the speaker in Robert Browning’s poem, “Porphyria’s Lover”, may easily be compared and contrasted. Once the reader can understand the two characters, it becomes evident that they are similar, yet easily contrastable. Tom and the speaker are similar in the way each feels towards their wife or lover, and in the way that external forces are able to keep the …showed first 75 words of 2303 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2303 total…speaker takes another’s life, his lover’s in fact, to solve his predicament. In this way, the reader can observe that even though the characters of Tom Hauptman (Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon, The Time-Traveler) and the speaker from “Porphyria’s Lover” are comparable in the way that they love their partners and the sad lives they lead, their depictions are distinct because of the difference between their levels of sanity and problem solving abilities.