Act Four Flashcards
Bosola saying duchess being quiet during torture is better than her talking, shows he is aware of her restricted voice
“Her silence, methinks, expresseth more than if she spake”
Hyperbole Bosola desired duchess with during torture, echoes Antonio calling her this when he introduced audience to duchess
“So noble”
Duchess confronting Bosola abt betrayal and plosive sound emphasize her anger at this deception
“What dost thou wrap thy poisoned pills in gold and sugar?”
What F gives the duchess and her saying his hand is cold shows compassion VS his lack of empathy
“Gives her a dead man’s hand”
“You are very cold”
Stage directions describing the wax figures, double, horrifying
“The artificial figures of Antonio and his children, appearing as if they were dead”
Duchess saying she feels like she’s playing a role has no agency (like in Macbeth)
“This world an tedious theatre, for i do play a part in it against my will”
Duchess saying if she was mad she wouldn’t be sad, similar to how Blanche uses her madness as an escape from reality
“I am not mad yet, to my cause of sorrow”
Madmen ??
The court is a microcosm for greater society, seen through the corruption of the madmen
Bosola entering disguised, perhaps comedic, to show his wisdom, to show his characters development, also hypocritical cause Bosola does not like disguises (old lady with makeup)
“Bosola, like an old man, enters”
ICONIC QUOTEEEEE. Final act of defiance, nothing not even death with change this, asserting her title opposed to her family. Duchess’s fatal flaw (Hamartia) is her naivety and ignorance
“I am Duchess of Malfi still”
What the executioner says to Cariola and what he shows her, symbol of eternity and ownership and what caused the duchess death.
“Here’s your wedding ring” shows a noose
What Duchess says in her ‘revival’, perhaps showing suffering, pleading, giving Bosola this??
“mercy!”
