Malfi - Ferdinand quotes

Question 1

Corruption

Answer 1

• ‘a most perverse and turbulent nature. what appears in him mirth is merely outside’

Question 2

Love/desire

Answer 2

• ‘happily with some strong-thighed bargeman’
• ‘tis not your whore’s milk that shall quench my wild-fire, / but your whore’s blood’

Question 3

Corruption/morality/desire/madness

Answer 3

• ‘to bring her to despair’
• ‘Damn her! That body of hers. While my blood run pure in it, as more worth than that which thou wouldst comfort, called a soul’ (inverts Christian doctrine which elevates the soul above the body)
• ‘I bade thee, when I was distracted of my wits, go kill my dearest friend, and thou hast done’t’
• ‘a wolf’s skin was hairy on the outside, his on the inside’