Act 4 Flashcards
F asks the D “where are
Your cubs” - animalistic
F says “you were too much
In the light” - everything she does is critiqued
Psychological torture
Waxwork figures of antonio and children - looks as if they are dead
“ What witchcraft does he practice
That he has left a dead man’s hand here? “
The duchess grieving: “that’s the greatest torture souls feel
In hell: that they must life, and cannot die”
“I’ll starve myself to death”
Lady arbella stuart
Bosola has to remind the D
“You are a christian” and it is sinful to want to die
“I long to bleed
It is some mercy, when men die with speed” - desperate to die stoicly
F says “damn her,
That body of hers” - obsessed with her body
F - “to feed a fire as great
As my revenge” - endless cycle of revenger on revenger
The D says “I am chained to
Endure all your tyranny”
D to B before she is killed
“Am i not thy Duchess?”
“I am the Duchess of Malfi still”
Bosola “ this is manly
Sorrow” - elaine showwalter melancholy
