ACT 2 Flashcards
“Nutmeg-grater, after she resembled an abortive hedgehog”
“Phrase to your plastic”“A dead pigeon taken from the soles of the feet of one sick of the plague, than kiss one of you fasting”
- Saying we use make-up to cover our rotten and dead body
- Covering blemishes is dishonest
- Hates lying more than murder
“Man stands amaz’d to see his deformity in any other creature but himself”
May foreshadow Ferdinands werewolf disease
“She pukes, stomach seeths”
“Teeming blue”
“Loose bodied gown”
He’s suspicious over the Duchess is sick and wears out of fashion gowns
-Reminder to the audience that he is a spy
“I have a trick may chance discover it”
“Apricocks”
- Believed to induce labour
- The devious and physical assertion of male authority over female
“Opinion of wisdom is a foul tetter that runs over a man’s body”
“Simplicity direct us to have no evil, it directs us to a happy being”
Compares wisdom to a skin disease running all over the body
- Suggests knowing too much can lead to folly and bad behavior
- Says simplicity is happiness
- Ironic as Bosola is a spy, gathering information would bring chaos
“You would look up to heaven, but I think the devil, that rules i’th’air, stands in your light”
He belies Bosola wants to rise in ranks but the cardinal ‘Devil’ is in his way
“I look no higher than I can reach”
“O sir, you are lord of the ascendant”
Saying he liked to stay in his station as its dangerous to go to a higher status which is ironic as he is being a spy for a higher status
“Makes them spoil a whole province
Link to the fountain in the beginning
“Do i not grow fat”
Duchess thinks shes being subtle about her pregnancy
-Bosola catches her double meaning
“Apricocks madam”
“Tis a delicate fruit”
Very confident in the Duchess being Pregnant
-Tests her with the apricots
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"Good her colour rises" "How greedily she eats them" "You are too much swell'd already" "I am in extreme cold sweat" "Lights to my chamber" "I fear i am undone"
The immediate effect of inducing labor
- Eats quickly because of pregnancy cravings
- Comic
-Goes into labour
-Bosola can confirm his suspicions on her being pregnant but doesn’t yet know the father
The beginning of their downfall
“O my most trusty Delio, we are lost”
“Bosola hath poisn’d her with these apricocks”
Antonio is in panic, as she is giving birth so suddenly
Bosola has brought disorder when they weren’t expecting it
-Delio makes lies that this is Bosolas fault in order to emphasize his bad reputation and get distraction away from Dutchess’ pregnancy
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“I am lost in amazement” “I know not what to think on’t”
Can’t do anything by himself
