Duchess A02 Flashcards
Female resiliance
Female resistance against power - name for fortress describing Duchess “Mas…
“Mastif”
Female resiliance
The Duchess gives “Majesty to…” highlighting her resilience
“Majesty to adversity”
Patriarchy(Deep hatred of promiscuity)
Ferdinand calls the Duchess a “Lusty…”
“Lusty widow”, the detested thoughts of widows in the patriarchy
Patriarchy(Need to control sexuality)
Ferdinand calls the Duchess a “Stru…” insulting what he views as her promiscuity
“Strumpet”
Patriarchy(Ideolised notions of femininity)
Ferdinand announces her “fault”, refering to lust, as “lep…” describing her promiscuity as an something which has pleauged her mind.
He describes her “fault”, refering to lust, as “leprosy” -Here Shakespeare brings up ideolised notions of femininity
Class division
Bosola’s low position in the ridged hierarchy lead him towards a life of diception and corruption, spying on the Duchess, “horse…, till I were full”
“Horseleech, till I were full”
Hierarchy
“poisn’t near the… through the whole land spread”
“Poisn’t near the head Death and diseases through the whole land spread”
Imbalance at the top of hierarchy
Patriarchy(Ferdinand)
Ferdinand “Perverse and…”
“Perverse and turbulant nature”
Cardinal(corruption)
“entrap offe…”
“entrap offenders”
Cardinal(Corruption)
“The law to him is like…”
“The law to him is like a foul black cobweb to a spider”
Religious morality in the play
The Duchess possesses a “noble…”
“noble virtue
Danger of their relationship
“Sacy and…”
“Sacy and ambitious devil”
Duchess - “The misery of us…”
“The misery of us that are born great”
