Disguise and transformation

Question 1

Volpone disguise

Answer 1

• As a dying man: “[mosca annoints Volpone’s eyes]; “all my birds of prey, that think me turning carcass, now they come - i am not for ‘em yet”
• As Scotlo Mountebank: [enter volpone on to the stage, disguised as a mountebank]

Question 2

Transformation of the world

Answer 2

BEFORE: “the humid flowers, breathed their morning incense”
AFTER: “she plucked, she ate: Earth felt the wound”
“the earth trembled from her entrails, as again in pangs, and nature gave a second groad”
from the sky: “some sad drops wept”.

Question 3

Transformation of Adam and Eve relationship

Answer 3

BEFORE:
- “sole eve, associate sole, to me beyond all living creatures dear”

AFTER:

• “high winds worse within began to rise, high passions, anger, hate, mistrust, suspicion, discord” - asyndetic listing echoes the swirling winds within them.
• “thus it shall befall him to worth in women over-trusting lets her will rule” - but Rafael did say don’t over worship Eve
• “appetite…usurping over sovereign reason claimed superior way”

Question 4

Adam and Eve sex transformation

Answer 4

book 4 they have good sex

“carnal desire inflaming, he on Eve began to cast lascivious eyes” “in lust they burn”

Question 5

Volpone transformation of status

Answer 5

BEFORE: volpone wealthy and cunning - “open that shrine…”
AFTER: “some power had struck me with a dead palsy.”
“thou art to lie in prison cramped with irons”

Question 6

Satan disguises himself as a snake

Answer 6

• “satan involved in rising mist” (link to “veiled in a cloud of fragrance”)
• “his final sentence chose fit vessel”
• “fearless unfeared he slept: in at his mouth the devil entered”
• “so spake the enemy of mankind , enclosed in serpent”