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Duchess 3:5 Flashcards

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‘Is all our train…’

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‘Is all our train/ Shrunk to this poor remainder?’ - Duchess
- emphasising their fall and new lack of luxury

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‘These poor men,/ Which have got little…’

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‘These poor men,/ Which have got little in your service, vow/ To take your fortune, but your wiser buntings,/ Now they are fledged, are gone.’ - Antonio
- the men left helping them have little to gain but stay and suffer with her
- the ‘wiser’ servants however have gone/abandoned the Duchess

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‘This puts me in mind…’

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‘This puts me in mind of death.’ - Duchess

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‘Right the fashion of…’

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‘Right the fashion of the world:/ From decayed fortnes, every flatterer shrinks:/ Men cease to build where the foundation sinks.’ - Antonio
- flatterers abandon when someone can no longer benefit them
- critical of the court, reminiscent of Bosola

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‘Methought I wore my coronet…’

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‘Methought I wore my coronet of state/ And on a sudden all the diamonds/ Were changed to pearls.’ - Duchess
- recounting a ‘very strange dream’ she had
- symbolising the loss of rank and status
- a ‘coronet’ is a crown-like ornament

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‘My interpretation/ Is you’ll…’

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‘My interpretation/ Is you’ll weep shortly, for to me the pearls/ Do signify your tears.’ - Antonio

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‘The birds that live i’th’field…’

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‘The birds that live i’th’field/ […] live/ Happier than we, for they may choose their mates’ - Duchess
- emphasises her lack of freedom

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‘Thou dost blanch mischief…’

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‘Thou dost blanch mischief;/ Wouldst make it white. See, see! Like to calm weather/ At sea before a tempest, false hearts speak fair/ To those they intend most mischief.’ - Duchess to Bosola when he says he has a letter from Ferdinand (and speaks positively about him/it)
- hiding true intentions, misleading

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‘[Reads] ‘Send Antonio to…’

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‘[Reads] ‘Send Antonio to me. I want his head in business.’/ A politic equivocation!/ He doth not want your counsel, but your head’ - Duchess (reading Ferdinand’s letter)
- multiple meanings

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‘He doth not want your…’

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‘He doth not want your counsel, but your head -/ That is, he cannot sleep till you be dead.’ - Duchess (about Ferdinand)

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‘[Reads] ‘I stand engaged for your…’

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‘[Reads] ‘I stand engaged for your husband for several debts at Naples. Let not that trouble him. I had rather have his heart than his money.’/ - And I believe so, too!’ - Duchess
- Ferdinand uses the Duchess’ lie
- ‘rather his heart’ - rather have Antonio’s love than payment (OR wants his heart AKA him dead)

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‘That he so much distrusts…’

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‘That he so much distrusts my husbands love,/ He will by no means believe his heart is with him/ Until he sees it.’ - Duchess
- Ferdinand won’t trust Antonio’s loyalty to him until he has physically seen his heart (again alt. meaning of Antonio being dead)

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‘Will you reject that noble…’

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‘Will you reject that noble and free league/ OF amity and love which I present you?’ - Bosola
- clearly suggesting that Ferdinand’s letter is positive, trying to manipulate the Duchess into sending Antonio to him

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‘Their league is like that of some…’

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‘Their league is like that of some politic kings -/ Only to make themselves of strength and power/ To be our after-ruin.’ - Duchess

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‘Thus, tell him - I…’

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Thus, tell him - I will not come.’ - Antonio

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‘And what of this…’

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‘And what of this? [Gestures to the letter]’ - Bosola
- surprise that the Duchess doesn’t believe Ferdinand’s letter

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‘My brothers have dispersed…’

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‘My brothers have dispersed/ Bloodhounds abroad, which, till I hear are muzzled […] I’ll not come at them.’ - Antonio
- the Duchess and Antonio are being hunted

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‘This proclaims your breeding…’

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‘This proclaims your breeding!/ Every small thing draws a base mind to fear’ - Bosola
- quick change from 3:2 where he praised Antonio, clearly all fake
- frustrating at the Duchess and Antonio’s rejection

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‘Let us not venture all…’

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‘Let us not venture all this poor remainder/ In one unlucky bottom.’ - Duchess
- not travel in one group so the don’t all sink

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‘Best of my life…’

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‘Best of my life, farewell. Since we must part,/ Heaven hath a hand in’t’ - Antonio

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‘I know not which is…’

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‘I know not which is best -/ To see you dead or part with you.’ - Duchess

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‘Thou art happy that thou hast…’

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‘Thou art happy that thou hast not understanding/ To know thy misery, for all our wit/ And reading brings us to a truer sense/ Of sorrow.’ - Duchess to her son
- he is lucky to not understand as he doesn’t feel the sorrow that the Duchess does

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‘In the eternal church, sir…’

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‘In the eternal church, sir,/ I do hope we shall not part thus.’ - Duchess

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‘Make patience a noble…’

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‘Make patience a noble fortitude/ And think not how unkindly we are used:/ ‘Man, like to cassia, is proved best being bruised’.’ - Antonio
- men are proven as virtuous and good when put through tough time

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'Must I, like to a slave-born...'
'Must I, like to a slave-born Russian,/ Account it praise to suffer tyranny?' - Duchess - take value in/be glad of their torture
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'Heaven fashioned us of nothing and...'
'Heaven fashioned us of nothing and we strive/ To bring ourselves to nothing.' - Antonio - reference to a poem written by John Donne in 1611
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'[To Duchess] If I do never see thee..'
'[To Duchess] If I do never see thee more,/ Be a good mother to your little ones/ And save them from the tiger. Fare you well.' - Antonio - sorrowful ending
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'Let me look upon you...'
'Let me look upon you once more, for that speech/ Came from a dying father.' - Duchess
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'[They kiss] Your kiss is colder...'
'[They kiss] Your kiss is colder/ Than that I have seen an holy anchorite/ Give to a dead man's skull.' - Duchess - sad parallel to: 'I'll stop your mouth' 'I must have another' (3:2) - 'dead man's skull' - it's as if he is dead already - this is the last thing she says to him, she now enters a darker phase in which she has no comfort
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parallels between 3:5 and 3:2
- the kissing: 'Your kiss is colder' vs 'I'll stop your mouth' 'I must have another' - starts domestic but is interrupted by Ferdinand (granted by his letter in 3:5 rather than him physically) - tenser more abrupt convo than most of 3:2
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'My heart is turned to a heavy...'
'My heart is turned to a heavy lump of lead/ With which I sound my danger. Fare you well.' - Antonio - the last words spoken between the couple
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'My laurel is...'
'My laurel is all withered.' - Duchess - just after Antonio exits - victorious roman generals were crowned with laurel wreaths, an emblem of good fame - it's withering was supposedly an omen of death/evil - her recognising her fate, perhaps acceptance - could also signal the death of a monarch
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'Enter Bosola with a...'
'Enter Bosola with a guard [of soldiers, all wearing vizards]' - SD - menacing, threatening, ideas of secrecy/torment
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'When Fortune's wheel is overcharged...'
'When Fortune's wheel is overcharged with princes,/ The weight makes it move swift. I would have my ruin/ Be sudden.' - Duchess - changing, fluctuating fates (high then low and back again)
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'You must see your...'
'You must see your husband no more.' - Bosola - ironic given their recent farewell - perhaps implies a sense of the Duchess giving in to what the brothers want
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'What devil art thou that...'
'What devil art thou that counterfeits heaven's thunder?' - Duchess to Bosola - huge numbers of soldiers, false power?
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'Whether is that note worse that...'
'Whether is that note worse that frights the silly birds/ Out of the corn, or that which doth allure them/ To the nets? You have harkened to the last too much.' - Bosola - 'silly birds' - defenceless (the Duchess)
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'Come - to what...' 'To...' 'Whither...' 'To...'
'Come - to what prison?' - Duchess 'To none.' - Bosola 'Whither, then?' - D 'To your palace.' - B
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'I have heard that Charon's...'
'I have heard that Charon's boat serves to convey/ All o'er the dismal lake, but brings none back again.' - Duchess - 'Charon' (in Greek mythology) was the ferryman of the River Styx in the Underworld - suggesting that if she goes with Bosola 'To [her] palace', she will not return
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'Your brothers mean you...' 'Pity? With such a pity...'
'Your brothers mean you safety and pity.' - Bosola 'Pity? With such a pity men preserve alive/ Pheasants and quails when they are not fat enough to be eaten.' - Duchess - death still hangs over them (and her) - will kill these birds when the benefits are greater (likewise with the Duchess?)
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'But I intend, since they were...'
'But I intend, since they were born accursed,/ Curses shall be their first language.' - Duchess (about her kids)
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'Forget this base...' 'Were I a...'
'Forget this base, low fellow -' - Bosola 'Were I a man,/ I'd beat that counterfeit face into thy other!' - Duchess - her physical limitations - expression of her love and protectiveness
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'Man is most happy when's...' 'A barren...'
'Man is most happy when's own actions/ Be arguments and examples of his virtue.' - Duchess 'A barren, beggerly virtue.' - Bosola
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'Why art thou so bold...'
'Why art thou so bold/ To mix thyself with our high state of floods,/ Being no eminent courtier' - the dog-fish (the Duchess' parable)
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'Our value can never be truly...'
'Our value can never be truly known/ Till in the fisher's basket we be shown./ I'th'market, then, my price may be the higher,/ Even when I am nearest to the cook and fire' - Salmon (The Duchess' parable) - value isn't always obvious - reference to Antonio's judgement in the afterlife
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''Men are oft valued...'
''Men are oft valued high, when th'are most wretched.'' - Duchess - value isn't always what is seems eg. the Duchess' brothers are valued due to their class
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'There's no deep...'
'There's no deep valley, but near some great hill.' - Duchess
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the Duchess' parable at the end of 3:5
- a 'salmon' and 'dog-fish' - theme of social class: the salmon is lowly when travelling from river to ocean but may be valued more at market - 'Why art thou so bold/ To mix thyself with our high state of floods,/ Being no eminent courtier' - the dog-fish - 'Our value can never be truly known/ Till in the fisher's basket we be shown./ I'th'market, then, my price may be the higher,/ Even when I am nearest to the cook and fire' - Salmon - ''Men are oft valued high, when th'are most wretched.'' - value is not always what it seems eg. Ferdinand and the Cardinal being valued due to their class
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'The Duchess mars the end of a lovely and terrible..'
'The Duchess mars the end of a lovely and terrible scene with a would-be funny moral tale [...] there is a sort of pathetic suitability in the Duchess, half broken with sorrow, almost unconsciously babbling childish tales to her enemy' - Rupert Brooke (1916) - the parallel to Ferdinand
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The Duchess' parable 'implies that good...'
The Duchess' parable 'implies that good fame cannot be discerned til death' - Muriel Bradbrook, 1980
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'Her clear insult to Bosola in implying that...'
'Her clear insult to Bosola in implying that he is a mere dogfish with temporary power [...] os her last wry joke before the darkness of Act 4' - Kathleen McLuskie, 1985
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'though offered as a defence of Antonio's low...'
'though offered as a defence of Antonio's low birth [this parable] looks forward to her own death as the master day by which her life will be judged' - Michael Niell (1997) > explains her composure ahead of her death > her and Antonio will be valued more in heaven
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possible reasons for the Duchess' parable at the end of 3:5?
- to send a message about social class and bring Bosola back down to earth - to comfort her children who are still present for this part of the scene - to criticise society's emphasis on class and therefore on the valuing of her corrupt brothers

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