This document provides guidance for structuring an essay about how disturbed characters are presented in works by Shakespeare and Browning. It recommends breaking the topic into four mini-essays that each analyze a different character: Iago from Othello, Othello, the Duke from "My Last Duchess", and the lover from "Porphyria's Lover". Within each section, it prompts discussing how the play or poem presents aspects of that character that reveal their disturbed mental state. The document also instructs considering similarities between characters and concluding by summarizing common traits of their disturbance.