Un-Victorian Tenets of Brownings Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician :: Strange Medical Experience of Karshish

  Un-Victorian Tenets of Brownings eery Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab doctor         Robert Brownings An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician is a dramatic monologue in which Karshish relieves to Abib about his experiencing the miracle of Jesus, when he raises Lazarus from the dead.  Karshish is a dramatic monologue containing most of the tenets of Browning.          Although Karshish is in the form of a letter, it is motionlessness an excellent example of a dramatic monologue.  There is a speaker, Karshish, who is non the poet.  There is a silent audience, Abib the reader of the letter.  There is a psychical exchange mingled with the speaker and the audience  Karshish writes as if Abib were right in front of him listening to everything.  This can be seen in the hang between here I end and yet stay it is as if Abib were get up to leave (61-2).  There is a distinct critical moment, when Karshish decides to write about his original concern Yet stay.  .  .  I half unthaw to tell thee, yet I blush/ What set me off a-writing commencement ceremony of all (62, 65-6).  Karshish has all the basics to a dramatic monologue.          It also contains a character study in which the speaker speaks from an extraordinary perspective.  Karshish is a alter doctor from one of the most train nations of the time, he has seen most of the civilized world, and he is still amazed by the miracle that he witnessed.  His amazement afterwards having seen many great things in the world proves to the audience that this event was and then spectacular and significant.  In the non-Christian world, the most common response is to interrogation and to reject, save because of the conviction of the speaker the audience believe that the miracle did happen.  Th is contrast between doubt and believe creates the dramatic focus of the work.  Thus, Karshish contains the character study and dramatic tension which make the work a dramatic monologue.          Karshish contains many of the tenets of Browning.  One of get-go tenets noniced is the idea that physical success in this life does not correspond to success in the next.  This can be seen in the cool carelessness seen in Lazarus after being raised from the dead contempt the