Key Quotations - Ferdinand Flashcards

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Ferdinand with his sycophants

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‘Methinks you that are courtiers should be my touchwood’
‘take fire when I give fire - that is, laugh when I laugh’

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Ferdinand not wanting the Duchess to remarry

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‘She’s a young widow; I would not have her marry again’

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Warning the Duchess that all will be exposed, foreshadowing

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‘Your darkest actions - nay, your privat’st thoughts - will come to light’

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Saying goodbye to the Duchess, sexual undertones

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‘Farewell, lusty widow’

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5
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Shaming the Duchess after finding out she has given birth

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‘She’s loose i’th’hilts, grown a notorious strumpet’

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Violent lexis of what he wants to do to the Duchess

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‘Till her bleeding heart I make a sponge to wipe it out’

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7
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Imagining the Duchess with a man

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‘Happily with some strong-thighed bargeman’

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Imagining he’s talking to the Duchess

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‘Tis not your whore’s milk that shall quench my wildfire. But your whore’s blood’

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9
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Going into hibernation to find who is the father of the Duchess’s child

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‘Till I know who leaps my sister, I’ll not stir’

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10
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Status and witchcraft of the Duchess

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‘The witchcraft lies in her rank blood’

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11
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Promising he will never see the Duchess again

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‘I will never see thee more’

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12
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Questioning the Duchess on reputation

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‘Dost thou know what reputation is?’

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13
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Reaction to the Duchess’s death

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‘Cover her face. Mines eyes dazzle; she died young’
‘She and I were twins’

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14
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Ferdinand’s regret

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‘Between her innocence and my revenge…I was distracted of my wits’

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15
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Last line, recognises his actions and consequences

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‘Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust’

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