This research paper examines some issues related to the condition of women in Victorian society and how the issues taken up are still relevant in contemporary times using the poem “The Last Duchess” by Robert Browning. Various aspects of female oppression considered in the research paper, like the way society become intolerant and accuse women at every step if they wish to lead a free life and breaks the "codes" set by the society, finds its parallelism in Tarabai Shinde's text "A Comparison between Women and Men". So, Shinde's text is used to substantiate various feminist points. Also, the cruelty in matrimonial relations is brought to limelight using this poem.
The paper is successful in highlighting the feminist aspects of the dramatic monologue poem and also of the Victorian society in general where women were treated as sex objects and they had access to domestic domain only. Men had full control over activities of their wives. Such condition of women in the reign of woman ie. Queen Victoria is quite ironic.