Morality And Sin

Question 1

Act 1 Scene 1- Bosola talking about the cardinal, makes it known that it’s very ironic the cardinal is holy yet evil. He’s worse than the devil.

Answer 1

Some fellows they say are possessed with the devil but this great fellow were able to possess the greatest devil and make him worse

Question 2

Act 1 scene 2- Ferdinand offers Bosola money to spy on the Duchess, Bosola being the omniscient person he is makes an observation about Ferdinand’s nature

Answer 2

Sometimes the devil doth preach

Question 3

Act 1 scene 1- Antonio makes a great observation about the government after returning from the corrupt French court.

Answer 3

This foul melancholy will poison all his goodness

Question 4

Act 4 scene 1- The Duchess emphasises metatheatricality and makes everything just that much more dramatic.

Answer 4

I account this world a tedious theatre for I do play a part in’t ‘ gainst my will

Question 5

Act 4 scene 2- the bird metaphor again, happens quite a lot in this play. Bosola talks abt being caged in relation to the soul

Answer 5

Dids’t thou ever see a lark in a cage. Such is the soul in the body

Question 6

Act 4 scene 2- Bosola is trying to find his identity. He is nothing when he is not defined as something by someone else.

Answer 6

‘I am the common bellman’

Question 7

Act 4 Scene 2- Bosola going on an existential rant. Death and life are horrible apparently

Answer 7

Their life a general mist of error; their death a hideous storm of terror

Question 8

Act 4 Scene 2- Cariola chips in and calls them what they really are.

Answer 8

Hence villains, tyrants, murderers! Alas!