Duchess of Malfi: Sin/Innocence

Question 1

‘Observe his _______ character: he is a ____________ churchman’

Answer 1

‘Observe his inward character: he is a melancholy churchman’

Question 2

‘You ________ a sacrament o’th’Church Shall make you _______ in hell for’t.’

Answer 2

‘You violate a sacrament o’th’Church Shall make you howl in hell for’t.’

Duchess

Question 3

“Whether we fall by ________, blood, or ____, / Like diamonds we are ____ with our own _____.”

Answer 3

“Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, / Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.”

Ferdinand (punishment is according to our own sinful actions)

Question 4

‘My _____________ will carry me to see her in the ___________ acts of ___’

Answer 4

‘My imagination will carry me to see her in the shameful acts of sin’

Question 5

‘The _____ speaks in them’

Answer 5

‘The devil speaks in them’

(Bosola about Ferdinand + Cardinal)

Question 6

“The _______, as always with Webster, is the act of ____ and its _______________.”

Answer 6

“The theme, as always with Webster, is the act of sin and its consequences.”

David Cecil (20th)