Duchess textual quotations

Question 1

What is wrong with the court?

Answer 1

the “flattering sycophants”

Question 2

Antonio’s appreciation of the Duchess

Answer 2

“the stains the time past, lights the time to come”

Question 3

Bosola as a servant

Answer 3

“I am your familiar”

Question 4

Ferdinand and Cardinal threatening the Duchess

Answer 4

“The marriage night/is the entrance into some prison”

Question 5

Ferdinand as the disdained lover

Answer 5

“Vulcan’s engine” “lusty widow”

Question 6

Duchess being naive

Answer 6

“make them my low footsteps”

Question 7

Duchess is flesh and blood

Answer 7

“Not the figure cut in alabaster/Kneels at my husband’s tomb”

Question 8

Their marriage is valid

Answer 8

“What can the church force more?”

Question 9

Cariola being a misogynist

Answer 9

“Whether the spirit of greatness or of woman/Reign most in her”

Question 10

Duchess’ wandering womb

Answer 10

“I am/ So troubled with the mother”

Question 11

Duchess as lustful

Answer 11

“How greedily she eats them!”

Question 12

Antonio is useless

Answer 12

“I am lost in amazement”

Question 13

Antonio is useful

Answer 13

“You are an impudent snake”

Question 14

Baby’s horoscope

Answer 14

“short life” “a violent death”

Question 15

Bosola on lust

Answer 15

“She’s oft found witty, but never wise”

Question 16

Julia and religion

Answer 16

“old anchorite”

Question 17

Cardinal to Julia

Answer 17

“I have taken you off your melancholy perch”

Question 18

Cardinal being manipulative

Answer 18

“spake like one in physic”

Question 19

Ferdinand’s obsession with nobility

Answer 19

“purge infected blood”, “while my blood ran pure in’t”

Question 20

What does Ferdinand want to do?

Answer 20

“Burn in a coal pit…sulphur”

Question 21

Healthy lust

Answer 21

“She’s the sprawlingest bedfellow/I shall like her the better for that”

Question 22

Duchess’ masculine nobility

Answer 22

“do both like a prince”

Question 23

Ridiculous that they are disdaining second marriage

Answer 23

“I have not gone about to create any new world or custom”

Question 24

Duchess is the woman with a plan

Answer 24

“I have fashioned it already”

Question 25

Duchess being blabbermouth

Answer 25

“That good one you speak of is my husband”

Question 26

Duchess disdaining religion

Answer 26

“Thou art a superstitious fool.”

Question 27

Duchess dying nobly

Answer 27

“till in the fisher’s basket we be shown”

Question 28

Women are noble in silence

Answer 28

“Her silence/expresseth more than if she spoke”

Question 29

Duchess’ defiance

Answer 29

“I am Duchess of Malfi still”

Question 30

Duchess as jesus

Answer 30

“I forgive them.”

Question 31

Ferdinand being remorseful/weirdo

Answer 31

“Mine eyes dazzle!”

Question 32

Ferdinand is not remorseful

Answer 32

“a good actor…cursed/For playing a villain’s part”

Question 33

Bosola getting blindsided

Answer 33

“I served your tyranny…to appear a true servant”

Question 34

Antonio disdaining religion

Answer 34

“You are still an heretic”

Question 35

Julia’s debased courtly love

Answer 35

“I have already suffered for thee so much pain”

Question 36

What does Julia call herself?

Answer 36

“great women of pleasure”

Question 37

Julia being manipulative

Answer 37

“wind my tongue about his heart/Like a skein of silk”

Question 38

Julia’s eternal damnation

Answer 38

“I go, I know not whither”

Question 39

Antonio’s dying wish

Answer 39

“let my son fly the courts of princes”

Question 40

Ferdinand blames his sister

Answer 40

“like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust”