Key Quotations - The Duchess Flashcards

1
Q

First line, value of widows

A

‘Diamonds are of the most value, they say, they have passed through the most jewellers hands’

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2
Q

Oxymoron on the court

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‘This is terrible good counsel’

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3
Q

The Duchess’s spontaneousness/recklessness

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‘I winked and chose a husband’

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4
Q

Reaction to Ferdinand and the Cardinal’s insistence on not remarrying, stoicism

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‘Shall this move me?’

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5
Q

Imagery of adventure

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‘Wish me good speed, for I am going into a wilderness where I shall find nor path nor friendly clew to be my guide’

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6
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Hinting to Antonio with the ring

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‘Twas my wedding ring, And I did vow never to part with it, but to my second husband’

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7
Q

Antonio’s social status

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‘This goodly roof of yours is too low built’

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8
Q

Pulling Antonio up the hierarchy

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‘Raise yourself, Or, if you please, my hand to help you’

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9
Q

The Duchess literal and metaphorical promise to Antonio

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‘You may discover what a wealthy mine I make you lord of’

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10
Q

Duchess upset about her status and having to make the first move

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‘The misery of us that are born great! We are forced to woo, because none dare woo us’

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11
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Dramatic when Antonio questions the marriage

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‘Go, go brag you have left me heartless!’

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12
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Stoicism, sees Ferdinand in her room

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‘For know, whether I am doomed to live or die, I can do both like a prince’

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13
Q

Confessing to Ferdinand she is married

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‘I pray, sir, hear me: I am married’

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14
Q

Duchess’s intelligence, coming up with a plan

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‘I have fashioned it already’

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15
Q

The Duchess on her brothers

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‘Make themselves of strength and power, only to be our after-ruin’

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16
Q

Duchess on men

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‘Men oft are valued high when they’re most wretched’

17
Q

Wants to die

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‘If they would bind me to that lifeless trunk and let me freeze to death’

18
Q

Stoic authority when imprisoned

A

‘Am I not thy Duchess?’
‘I am Duchess of Malfi still’

19
Q

Last lines as Bosola tells her Antonio is reconciled with her brothers (lie)

A

‘Antonio! Mercy!’