Act Two Flashcards
Example of Bosola’s misogyny?
“There was a lady in France that, / having had the smallpox, flayed the skin off her face / to make it more level; and, whereas before she looked / like a nutmeg grater, after she resembled an abortive hedgehog”
How does Bosola compare an old lady to a ship?
• Bosola tells the old woman that “morphewed lady” – (He describes her as if she was an old ship whose rotting or morphewed hull must be turned on its side or ‘careened’ and scrape of makeup before it will be fit to leave port or “disembogue”, implying that her makeup must be scraped off before she will be fit to be seen in public)
Example of Bosola’s disgust at physicality?
“I would sooner eat a dead pigeon taken / from the soles of the feet of one sick of the plague than / kiss one of you fasting”
Example of Bosola’s disgust at physicality part two?
“Man stands amazed to see his deformity / In any other creature but himself. / But in our own flesh…we bear diseases”
Example of Bosola’s disgust at physicality part three?
“Though we are eaten up of lice and worms, / And though continually we bear about us / A rotten and dead body, we delight / To hide it in rich tissue”
What does Bosola say about the Duchess’s pregnancy?
“I observe out Duchess / Is sick a-days: she pukes, her stomach seethes”
Example of Bosola’s ambition?
“I look no higher than I can reach”
What does Antonio say about Bosola’s ambition?
“You would look up to heaven, but I think / The devil that rules i’th’ air stands in your light”
Example of the Duchess being depicted as human?
“Do I not grow fat?”
Bosola offering the apricots to the Duchess:
Bosola offers the apricots to the Duchess, that were “[ripened] in horse dung” He remarks about the Duchess: “How greedily she eats / them!”
Delio says that, “Bosola hath poisoned her”
What does the old lady say to Bosola, revealing his misogyny?
“You are still abusing women!”
“The devil takes delight to / hang at a woman’s girdle like a false rusty watch” Who says this?
Bosola
Example of foreshadowing?
“She’s exposed / Unto the worst of torture, pain and fear”
Symbols of Bosola’s duplicity?
• Bosola enters with “a dark lantern”, Bosola later calls it a “false friend” – false because it hides itself from others, but a friend because it helps Bosola find the horoscope
Antonio asks “Who’s there? What art thou?” What does Bosola reply?
“I am Bosola, your friend”
