Death - Malfi/PL Flashcards
1
Q
Whitworf-
A
The evanescence of human existence is a related, persistent theme. / If there is nothing left, can it mean anything?
2
Q
Pearson on act 5
A
deliberate stylistic and thematic shift
She points out that the act is “full of negatives,” with recurring motifs of “silence,” “never,” “no,” and especially “nothing,” highlighting a world that has become “negative and sterile’
3
Q
LukcyJ
A
how duchess, incarnation of youth and beauty, faces mortality and death
/‘dead body recast into bosola’
4
Q
Disannayke
A
Eves actions bring sin and death into existence/ Women the mother of death
5
Q
Fallon
A
‘turn to the lesser reality of allegory’/’privation of being’
6
Q
TS elliot
A
webster sees the skull beneath the skin
7
Q
Ernskie
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Theologiain sees death as a curse/ poet a heaven sent release
