Madness - DOM + SCND Flashcards
Fear of reality - Blanche 9
‘I don’t want realism. I’ll tell you what I want. Magic!’
Effect of social pressures - Stella 8
‘because people like you abused her, and forced her to change’
Trauma - Blanche 1
‘The boy - the boy died - I’m afraid I’m going to be sick!’
Aural devices representing Blanche’s mental state
‘polka’ (past), ‘a locomotive is heard’ (industrialisation), ‘blue piano’ (depression and loneliness) ‘varsouviana’
Cathartic cleansing suggesting guilt
[Blanche is bathing]
Suffering and suggestion of suicide - Duchess 4:1
‘I account this world a tedious theatre, for I do play a part in it ‘gainst my will’
Depression - Antonio 5:4
‘Pleasure of life, what is’t?’
Insanity, lycanthropy - Ferdinand 4:2
‘I’ll go hunt the badger by owl light, ‘tis a deed of darkness’
Desiring madness - Duchess 4:2
‘I am not mad yet, to my cause of sorrow’
Admiration for her strength - Bosola
‘She gives majesty to adversity’
Aural devices, Charvari of the madmen
[a dismal kind of music]
Assertion of psychological stability - Duchess 4:2
‘I am Duchess of Malfi still’
Prop trigger to Blanche’s collapse - Stanley 7
‘ticket back to Laurel’
Psychological decline, hallucination - SD 10
[the shadows are of a grotesque and menacing form]
Lycanthropia - Ferdinand 5:5
‘give me some wet hay’
Description of Blanche’s mentality - Stanley 7
‘downright loco - nuts’
Guilt in his deeds - Ferdinand 4:2
‘cover her face; mine eyes dazzle’
Dehumanisation when institutionalised - Nurse 11
‘these fingernails have to be trimmed’
Lycanthropia, howl - Ferdinand 4:2
‘deadly dogged howl’
