Act 3 Scene 2 Flashcards
Setting
In the bedchamber- domestic setting.
Example of the companion at marriage.
AO4: Stanley’s intrusion into Blanche’s space, his acts at the end of scene 8.
Antonio as a mouthpiece for the Protestant belief of the companion at marriage ‘became flowers, precious stones or eminent stars’
intertextuality- Ovid’s epic poem metamorphosis.
Marriage is beneficial, useful and adds value to the woman.
Stage directions- Enter Ferdinand ‘behind’
position of vulnerability, subversion of the great chain of being.
Duchess- “I am doomed to live or die, I can do both like a prince”
Sees herself as powerful, stoicism in the face of adversity, gendered repetition.
AO3: Nostalgia for Elizabeth I as a ruler, AO5: no language for the woman ruler, women ruling as “unnatural”.
Ferdinand’s monologue- “to holier use inhabit” “Do not keep a pariquito lest she learn it”
- Build an inescapable cell, she has dishonoured the family.
- Betrayal, vengeful metaphor. The preservation of a pure heritage and the expectation to conform to the orders of the prominent male figurehead.
Duchess “Why might not I marry” “I have not gone about in this to create any new world or custom”
Poses measured questions- she just wants to marry.
Ironic phrase- subverted syntax forces the audience to pause, reconsider the role of the Renaissance man.
Ferdinand- “You have shook hands with reputation and made him invisible.” “I will never see you more”
allegoric anecdote, reputation should never be parted with.
Ferdinand’s pledge- he has disowned the Duchess.
AO4 Blanche and the dismantling of her prior reputation from the Hotel Flamingo.
Duchess - “Why should only I… be cased up like a holy relic”
Feminist voice for the harmful stereotype of the ‘lusty widow’, represents the invisible woman.
Bosola- “Princes pay flatterers In their own money: flatterers dissemble their vices, and they dissemble their lies, that’s justice”
Gredatio.
Depiction of the court.
Corruption of the justice system and the criticism of scyophants.
Bosola about Antonio- “a most unvalued jewel. You have a wanton humour thrown away”
Too virtuous for corrupt system.
Malcontent figure speaks with praise- value to the compliment?
metaphor.
can honestly talk to higher order character.
Bosola- “like a cedar planted by a spring”
Tree analogy/ nature metaphor.
Symbiosis- Antonio needs the Duchess.
Allows Bosola to praise Antonio despite being a lower order character.
