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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
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Greek Tragedy

Peripateia

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“sudden reversal of fortune”

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Greek Tragedy

Anagnorisis

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“critical discovery”

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Greek Tragedy

Hamartia

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“tragic flaw”

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Satan

Preplanned Slyness

B.9 Prologue

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“mediated guile”

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Narrator?

Tragic

B.9 5

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“I now must change these notes to tragic”

Link to Duchess of Malfi, genre

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Satan

Torment (2)

B.9 120, 122

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“the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment with me”

“All good to me becomes Bane”

Link to Ferdinand/ Cadinal? Satan cursed to never enjoy peace

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Satan

Destroying

B.9 129

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“For only in destroying I find ease”

consumed in the thirst for power, the consequence of hubris, Bosola

^ ‘Like Satan, Bosola finds a sense of ease or fulfillment in his role as an agent of destruction’

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Satan

Favourite

B.9 175

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“this new favourite of Heav’n, this man of clay” [Adam]

link to Antonio, foreshadowing of his fall

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Eve

Labours

B.9 214

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“Let us divide our labours”

taking iniative to disrupt and develop the social order, Duchess link

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Eve

Unearned

B.9 224

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“…and th’ hour of supper comes unearned”

supper can only be eaten if work is complete - women are hard working

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Adam

Women [miltons views]

B.9 232

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“for nothing lovlier can be found In woman, than to study household good”

womans traditional position in society

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Adam

Foe (3)

B.9

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“malicious foe”
“for he who tempts… dishnour foul”
“seduce angles”

allagory for classism? links to Ferdinands view of Antonio

^ he will corrupt the duchess and their blood

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Eve

Test (2)

B.9 335-341

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“And what is fate… without exterior help sustained?”
“And Eden were no Eden thus exposed?”

Free will & testing boundaries - D&A. challenge the social order

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Adam

Test (2)

B.9 364-366

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“seek not temptation then… trail will come unsought”

Duchess tempted by A, betrayal of brothers & consequence of temptation

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Narrator

Eve

B.9 457-60

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“her Heav’nly form Angelic, but more soft, and feminine, Her graceful innocence”

feminine traits seen as weak, only her apperance is all she’s worth

^A loves D for her wit and disposition not just looks

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Narrator

Satan Stupid

B.9 465

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“Stupidly good… disarmed of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge”

women as healing, womens power over men (Julia)

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Satan

Higher Intellect

B.9 482-5

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“Her husband… Whose higher intellectal more I shun”

men are the bigger threat than women, partiarchy

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Satan

Ruin

B.9 494

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“to her ruin now I tend”

Ferdinand and Bosola link

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Narrator

Enemy

B.9 496

A

“So spake the Enemy of mankind”

Ferdinand/ Cadinal/ Bosola

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Satan

Flattering Eve (vanity - 3)

B.9

A

“Fairest resemblance of thy Maker fair”
“A goddness among gods”
“Empress of this fair world”

blasphemy, sin of vanity and flattery, women are easily won

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Narrator - Satan

Deciever

B.9 633

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“made intricate seem straight”

Bosola, makes Duchess trust him easily

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Satan

Ambition

B.9 690

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“by vent’uring higher than my lot”

Great chain of beings, Antonio link

“We ought not to climb higher than our force permiteth” [Painter, 1964]

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Satan

Gods

B.9 710

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“That ye should be as gods, since I am man”

Great chain of beings, you should move above your means (=punishment)

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Narrator

Eve guliable (2)

B.9 734

A

“Into her heart too easy enterence won”
“his persuasive words, impregned with reason”

womens guilability, link to Julia kissing the book, sexual language

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Eve

Friendly

B.9 773

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“Friendly to man, far from deceit or guile”

decieved, Bosola deceptive

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Narrator

Ate

B.9 780

A

“her rash hand in evil hour… she pluched, she ate”

rythmic spondee, link to Duchess eating apricots greedily

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Eve

Wedding vows

B.9 831

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“Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe”

wedding vows, contrast to Duchess and Antonios love

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Adam

To die

B.9 906

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“And me with thee hath ruined, for with thee Certain my resolution is to die”

D&A willing to die for each other, starcrossed lovers

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Adam

One flesh

B.9 958

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“we are one, one flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself”

Duchess and Antonio, soulmates

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Adam

Female Charm

B.9 !999!

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“Against his better knowledge, not decieved, But fondly overcome with female charm”

doesn’t have the same excuse as eve, julia & duchess

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Adam

Sin of Lust

B.9 1017

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“I see thou art exact of taste, And elegant, of sapientine…”

lust first sin after fall, Antonio & Cardinal

32
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Adam

Evil hour

B.9 1068

A

“O Eve, in evil hour”

realsing mistake in fall, conscience - Cardinal

33
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Adam

Stayed with me

B.9 1134

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“Would thou hast hearkened to my worlds, and stayed With me, as I besought thee”

women should listen to men

34
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Eve

Command me

B.9 1155

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“why didst not thou the head Command me absolutely not to go”

women belong to men and should listen to them

35
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Adam

Warned you

B.9 1170

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“what could I more? I warned thee, I admonished thee, foretold the danger and the lurking Enemy”

women should listen to men

36
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Narrator

Women overtrusting

B.9 1182

A

“Thus it shall befall Him who to worth in women overtrusting lets her will rule”

Miltons views - don’t listen to women, misogyny or christian teachings

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Eve

Beguiled

B.10 162

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“The serpent me begiled and I did eat”

admitting her sin, unlike Adam who blames Eve.

Duchess taking her death with pride

38
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Jesus

Snake punishment

B.10 177

A

“Upon thy blly grovelling thou shalt go”
“Her seed shall bruise thy head, thou bruise his heel”

(unfair punishment for snake) punishment worse than death

39
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Narrator

Judged

B.10 211

A

“So judged he man, both Judge and Saviour sent”

Ferdinand and Cardinal choosing the punishment instead of God

40
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