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Mock Duchess of Malfi Flashcards

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What simile illustrates how if the court is poisoned, it will spread it contagion throughout the land?

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“A prince’s court is like a common fountain”

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What quote uses nature to suggest that the brothers are corrupts characters, full of dishonesty & unlawfulness?

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“Like plum trees that grow crooked over standing pools”

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What quotation describes the negativity surrounding Ferdinand?

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“A most perverse and turbulent man”

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What quotation reflects Antonio’s admiration for the Duchess?

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“For her discourse, it is so full of rapture”

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What quotation alligns the Duchess with light?

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“She stains the time past, lights the time to come”

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What quotation is the first indication of Ferdinand’s power over the Duchess & sets up the marriage incident?

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“She’s a young widow, I would not have her marry again”

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What quotation presents the reason for the brother’s control over the Duchess in regards to her getting re-married?

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“you’re a widow you already know what a man is”

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What quotation is a promise from the Duchess, which she immediately breaks?

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“Will you hear me? I’ll never marry”

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What quotation emphasises how the Duchess finds her brothers attempt, with their rehearsed scene, comical?

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“it came so roundly off”

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What metaphor is used by the Cardinal, which is used as a warning to prevent the Duchess from marrying?

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“Entrance into some prison”

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What quotation uses a dagger as a threat to the Duchess to illustrate Ferdinand’s power?

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“This was my father’s poniard/I’d be loath to see’t look rusty”

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What quotation demonstrates the Duchess’s provocative nature?

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“Diamonds are of most value/They say, they have passed through most jewellers hands”

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What oxymoron is used by the Duchess to illustrate her humour in her brothers attempt to control her?

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“This is terrible good counsel”

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What quotation demonstrates how the Duchess defies the wills of her brothers & breaks her promise?

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“I winked and chose a husband”

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What quotation illustrates how the Duchess has to equivocate in order to fell safe, being subject to such scrutiny?

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“As a tyrant doubles with his words, and fearfully equivocates”

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What quotation links to the Queen’s 2 bodies and suggests that the Duchess is trying to say she’s real although her political life is taking over?

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“So dead a piece of flesh”

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What quote illustrates the way in which the stereotypical way of engagement has been changed, due to the scrutiny the Duchess is subject to being an aristocrat?

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“These words should be mine”

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What quotation shows that the Duchess & Antonio subvert and by-pass religion?

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“The Church must but echo this”

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What quotation illustrates Bosola’s deceitful plan to discover the Duchess’ pregnancy?

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“I have a present for your grace/Apricots, madam”

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What quotation is hypocritical & used during the dispute between Bosola & Antonio, as Antonio joins the unfamiliar world of deceit?

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“Traitors are ever confident till they are discovered”

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What quotation is a reference to John Lyly’s Women in the Moon, and describes women as fickle and inconstant?

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“I’th’moon and look to find a constant woman there”

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What quotation uses falcon imagery to emphasise the Cardinal’s power over Julia and is a metaphor for sex?

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“Melancholy perch”

23
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What quotation suggests that Cardinal, like others in the play, gains his power from the weakness of others?

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“Little fingering on the lute”

24
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What quotation illustrates the theme of courtly love and suggests that it’s merely the Cardinal’s upset that lures Julia in?

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“Piteous wound I’th’heart”

25
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What quotation is a severe insult to the Duchess and suggests that she’s on a level hyperbolic of lust that Ferdinand believes she has?

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“Notorious Strumpet”

26
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What quotation illustrates the brothers concern that their sister reputation will act as a disease on them?

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“Shall our blood, The royal blood of Aragon and Castile, be thus attained?”

27
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What quotation is an indication for how Ferdinand intends to cause suffering for the Duchess’ son?

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“When I have hewed her to pieces”

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What quotation uses animalistic to criticise a male charcater - Ferdinand - and illustrate his brothers disgust in his insanity?

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“Cursed Creature”

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What quotation illustrates the driving force for Ferdinand’s thoughts and actions?

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“My imagination will carry me”

30
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What quotation is vivid and suggests a medium of rape, as Ferdinand imagines the Duchess with other men?

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“Happily with some strong-thighed bargeman”

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What quotation shows Ferdinand’s planned actions as his hamartia (his desire for the Duchess) has taken over?

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“Fix her in a general eclipse”

32
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What quotation hints at the inequality in regards to gender and suggests the Duchess is on a mission of gender subversion?

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“I am doomed to live, or die, I can do both like a prince”

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What quotation shows Bosola encouraging the Duchess to fake a religious pilgrimage in order to get away?

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“I would wish your grace to feign a pilgrimage”

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What quotation illustrates Cariola as a voice of religion, disencouraging the corruption of religion? (Pilgrimage)

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“I do not like this jesting with religion”

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What quotation shows how the Duchess uses religion for personal gain?

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“Doth she make religion her riding-hood”

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What quotation hints at Ferdinand’s jealousy and foreshadows the death of the Duchess?

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“You were too much I’th’light. But no more.”

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What quotation uses sibilance to demonstrate an act of sadism, which hints at the idea that people are twisted & evokes true emotion?

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“Sad Spectacle”

38
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What quotation illustrates the Duchess disgust in such callous acts and suggests that she has forced to be part of something so callous?

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“I account this world a tedious theatre/For I do play a part in’t ‘gainst my will”

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What quotation illustrates the Duchess’ denial with religion?

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“I’ll go pray – no, I’ll go curse”

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What quotation is a rephrasing from The Winter’s Tale, which links to the theme of lies and deceit and adds to the concept of madness within the play.

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“She’s plagued in art”

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What quotation shows that Ferdinand’s attempt to turn the Duchess insane has had the adverse affect as it actually provides her with sanity?

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“Nothing but noise and folly can keep me in my right wits, whereas reason and silence make me stark mad. “

42
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What quotation demonstrates the strength of the Duchess despite the callous acts she has had against her?

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“I am Duchess of Malfi still”

43
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What quotations suggest that the Duchess is now wanting death in order to properly remove herself from such callous relatives and a deceitful world?

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“That I perceive death, now I am well aware, best gift is they can give, or I can take. Come violent death”

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What quotation hints at Ferdinand’s guilt and illustrates the Duchess’ transcendental power?

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“Cover her face. Mine eyes dazzle “

45
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What quotation is a lie from Ferdinand which hides his incestuous motive?

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“Only, I must confess, I had a hope – had she continued widow – to have gained an infinite mass of treasure by her death”

46
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What quotations foreshadow Ferdinand’s Lycantrophy?

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“intemperate anger/The howling of a wolf/a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly”

47
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What quotations illustrate the Cardinal’s confusion with Ferdinand’s insanity?

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“You fly beyond your reason/ are you stark mad”

48
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What quotation uses animalistic imagery and suggests that Ferdinand feeds off others?

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“Is like a foul black cobweb to a spider”

49
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What quotation shows that the pursuit of money corrupts you?

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“Take your devils/these cursed gifts would make you a corrupter”

50
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What quotation shows that Antonio is entering an unfamiliar world of deceit in order to protect the secret of their child?

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“Jewels to the value of four thousand ducats are missing in the Duchess’s cabinet”

51
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What quotation illustrates Bosola’s manipulation in trying to find out the truth regarding her marriage to Antonio?

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“He was an excellent Courtier/Both his virtue and form deserved a far better fortune”

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What quotation displays the Cardinal’s guilty conscience leading to him poisoning Julia?

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“I will swear you to’t upon this book/Thou’rt poisoned with that book”

A level English (6 decks)

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