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AO1: Duchess Of Malfi Flashcards

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(GENDER)
How is Ferdinand violent towards Duchess’ about her sexuality?

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“Tis not your whore’s milk that shall quench my wild fire,/ But your whore’s blood”

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(GENDER)
How does Antonio describe the Duchess’ fertility?

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“She’s an excellent/ Feeder of pedigrees”

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(DECEPTION)
What does Antonio say in ASIDE about Bosola?

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“This mole does undermine me”

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(REVENGE)
How does Ferdinand get revenge on Duchess?

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[gives her a dead man’s hand]

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(GENDER + CONTROL)
How does the Duchess command Antonio, shifting the dynamic of conventional gender roles + class boundaries?

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“Raise yourself, / Or if you please, my hand to help you so”

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(GENDER)
How does Ferdinand describe the Duchess’ sexuality as diseased?

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“Their livers are more spotted/ Than Laban’s sheep”

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(LOVE + PLEASURE - INCEST)
How is Ferdinand purposefully secretive about opposing Duchess’ remarriage?

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“Do not you ask the reason, but be satisfied”

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(PAIN + SUFFERING)
What is the First sign of Ferdinand’s madness?

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“Methinks I see her [Duchess] laughing”

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(LOVE + PLEASURE - INCEST)
Ferdinand imagines Duchess having sex

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“Happily with some strong-thighed barge man”

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(CONSEQUENCES)
How does Ferdinand believe his reputation is damaged by Duchess’ actions

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“It is some sin in us”

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(GENDER REBELLION)
How does the Duchess question why she should remain celibate?

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“Why should I of all the princes in the world be cased up like a holy relic?”

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(CONSEQUENCES)
How does Ferdinand show he’s distraught that Duchess is dead?

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“Cover her face. Mine eyes dazzle”

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(CONSEQUENCES)
How does Ferdinand realise his twin is dead?

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“She and I were twins”

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(CONTROL/ HONOUR - PAIN + SUFFERING)
How does Duchess honour her suffering?

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“Let me freeze to death”

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(CONSEQUENCE)
How does Ferdinand critiseise Bosola for killing the Duchess

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“Why do you do this?”

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(LOVE)
How does the Duchess show her maternal love right until her death?

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‘Give my little boy/ Some syrup for his cold”

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(CONTROL)
How does the Duchess welcome death maintaining her honour?

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“Come violent death”

18
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(AMBITION)
How is Bosola spiteful about the court and its corruption?

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“Poison’t near the head, death and disease through the whole land spread”

19
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(DECIET)
How does Antonio view Bosolas 2 sided persona towards the Duchess?

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“This foul melancholy/ Will poison all his goodness”

20
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(AMBITION) How is Bosola despairing towards societal structure?

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“I will thrive some way: blackbirds fatten best in hard weather, why not I, in these dog days?

21
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(MANIPULATION)
How does Antonio describe the corrupt nature of the court and how F+C manipulated those in the court?

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“He and his brothers are like plum trees that grow crooked over standing ponds: they are rich and o’erladden with fruit, but none but crows, and caterpillars feed on them”

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(FOOLISH BEHAVIOUR)
How does Bosola describe his sycophantic nature towards the Aragonian brothers?

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“I would hang on their ears like a horse leech till I were full, and then drop off”

23
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(CONTROL)
How does Castruchio and Ferdinand control the sycophants in his court?

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“Take fire, that is, laugh when I laugh”

24
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(CONTROL)
How does Antonio describe the Cardinals control over the court + sycophants?

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“ He strews in his way flatterers, pandered, intelligencers, atheists, and a thousand such political monsters”

25
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(DECEIT)
How Does the Cardinal deceive the church?

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[Performed in delivering up his cross, robes and ring, at the shrine; and investing him with a sword, helmet, shield and spurs]

26
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(CONTROL)
How does Antonio elevate the Duchess and show her hierarchal control?

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“The Right and noble Duchess”

27
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(AMBITION)
How does Ferdinand acknowledge Bosolas ambition?

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“You envy those that stand above your reach”

28
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(CONTROL)
How is the Duchess uncomfortable with her social status?

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“The misery of us that are born great, / we are forced to woo because none dare woo us”

29
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(GENDER)
How does Duchess proclaim her hatred for men in salmon parable?

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‘Men oft are valued high, when th’are most wretched”

30
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(GENDER)
How does Ferdinand control the Duchess’ sexuality because she is a widow?

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‘You are a widow; / You know already what man is”

31
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(CONSEQUENCES)
How does Ferdinand show his anger about the Duchess’ relationship with Antonio?

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“The witchcraft lies in her rank blood”

32
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(GENDER)
How does the Cardinal imply that women act on impulse showing he is possessive over Duchess’ sexuality also?

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“So most widows say, But commonly that motion lasts no longer / Than the turning of an hourglass”

33
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(LOVE + PLEASURE)
how does Ferdinand show his attraction (sexually) towards the Duchess?

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“You are my sister. / This was my father’s poinard: do you see?

34
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(GENDER + CONTROL)
How does the Duchess revoke her gender role and marry Antonio?

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“ wink’d and chose a husband”
[kisses him]

35
Q

(CONSEQUENCE)
How does Ferdinand describe the Duchess’ impurity?

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“This darkness suits you well”

36
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(DECEIT)
How does Cariola deceive the Duchess to get out of excecution?

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“A fearful madness. I owe her much pity”

37
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(SUFFERING)
How does The Doctor describe Ferdinands consequential madness

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“A very pestilential disease…/ They call lycanthropia”

38
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(CONSEQUENCES + SUFFERING)
How does Ferdinand suffer the Duchess’- haunting?

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‘Stay let it not haunt me”

39
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(CONTROL) What does Bosola say to accentuate his sycophantic nature?

A

I am your creature

40
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(GENDER + CONTROL) How does the Duchess describe her last living moments?

A

‘For known whether I am doomed to live or die I can do both like a prince’

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