Lucio Quotes Flashcards
1
Q
‘Madam Mitigation comes. I have purchased as many diseases under her roof’
A
- Mitigates male desire through provision of prostitutes.
- ‘Purchased’ implies paying for sex. Highlights how Vienna is writhe with venereal disease due to prostitution.
- Decline of Vienna’s moral health.
2
Q
‘Do not marry me to a whore…Do not recompense me in making me a cuckold’
A
-Publicly humiliates his wife and declares his disgust towards her.
- Ironic as he uses prostitutes but refuses to marry one.
3
Q
‘As those that feed grow full, as blossoming time that from the seedness the bare fallow brings’
A
- Pregnancy is depicted through natural imagery, highlighting how sex is natural. Imagery of growth and fertility.
- ‘Seed’ = sperm, phallic imagery and crude sexual imagery to illustrate how Isabella is now pregnant.
4
Q
‘When maidens sue, men give like gods’
A
- Women gain power through submission and portraying themselves as vulnerable.
