Act 5 Scene 1 Flashcards
What needs to happen to resolve play in Act 5
For Ferdinand and Bosola - Antonio has to die
For Antonio and Bosola (scourge and malcontent) Ferdinand and Cardinal has to die and Antonio should be reconciled with his family
Majority of characters die in denouncement (Act 5 here)
Why does Delio ask the Marquis of Pescara for some land
To try protect it for Antonio
It is the land that was seized for him
Ravished from his throat’ - wolf, animalistic
Bestow them to me
Why is Julia given Antonio’s seized land
Julia approaches with a merger from cardinal asking for the land
‘Strumpet’
Why did pescara give the land to Delio
Not want to give land taken away from someone in Aug a shameful way to a friend but can give it to Julia - SHES a trumpet
Antonio’s new plan
Visit cardinal in bedroom
Either reconcile or face punishment and get it over with
Act 5 scene 2
Imagery of sickness
Doctor ‘Patience’ ‘Disease’ ‘Fear of relapse’ ‘Madness’
Pescara
‘Sick prince’
Ferdinand
‘Sore eyes’
Act 5 scene 2
Animal imagery
Doctor ‘transformed into wolves’
‘Howled fearfully’
‘He was a wolf’
‘Rip up his flesh’
Ferdinand
‘I’ll crawl after like a sheep-biter’
A03 context
In Webster’s day it was believed that if a ruler was sick or behaved wrongly the whole of society would be affected
Find a quote from Act 1 scene 1 which illustrates how sickness corrupts a society
‘If’t chance/ some curs’d example poison’t near the head/ Death and disease through the whole land spread’
In Act 5 scene 2, the characters on stage are telling each other one thing but the audience another
What does the cardinal order Bosola to do
What does he tell the audience that he is hiding
Tells Bosola to find Antonio and ‘kill him’
He’s hiding that he knows of the duchess death ‘must not know’ and they be councilled it ‘had intelligence’
How does Bosola respond to cardinals request to kill Antonio
What is he acc thinking
He will do it ‘I’ll not freeze I’the business’
He says the cardinal ‘nothing else but murder…not to have notice’
What role does Julia play
What is she feeling here
‘Sir will you come to supper’ - wife
[aside] what excellent shape hath that fellow - finds Bosola attractive
What is the significance of Bosola description of the Cardinal as ‘an old fox’
Wise sly cunning
Animal imagery - animalistic
