Power / Corruption

Question 1

Types of power

Answer 1

Political / social power
= F+C and Satan

Personal power / female power
= eve and duchess

Manipulative power
= bosola and Satan

Lack of power
= gendered power eve and duchess
= Antonio and Adam - their lack of power is determined by their love

Power of redemption
= god/son and the duchess

Question 2

Webster context for power / corruption

Answer 2

Court of James I

Great chain of being

Divine right of kings

Class systems

Question 3

Milton context for power / corruption

Answer 3

English civil war

Great chain of being

Question 4

“Like plum trees that grow…”

Answer 4

“…crooked over standing pools”

Bosola

Question 5

“Could I be one of their…”

Answer 5

“…flattering panders?”

Bosola

Question 6

The law to him is like

Answer 6

A foul black cobweb to a spider

Delio about Ferdinand

Question 7

He did bestow

Answer 7

Bribes

Antonio about Cardinal

Question 8

Raise

Answer 8

Yourself

Duchess to antonio

Question 9

I am the

Answer 9

Duchess of malfi still

Question 10

[Bosola is] “proud, bloody or…”

Answer 10

“…envious as any man”

Bosola

Question 11

Take fire

Answer 11

When i give fire

Cardinal

Question 12

Too honest

Answer 12

For such business

Cardinal

Question 13

I am your

Answer 13

Creature

Bosola

Question 14

My corruption grew

Answer 14

Out of horse dung

Bosola

Question 15

Shall our blood …

Answer 15

Be thus attainted

Cardinal

Question 16

Flatterers

Answer 16

Flatterers

Antonio

Question 17

He rode

Answer 17

With darkness

Question 18

Satan involved in

Answer 18

Rising mist

Question 19

With act

Answer 19

Intelligential

Question 20

Into the heart of eve

Answer 20

His words made way

Lack of power

Question 21

Into her heart

Answer 21

Too easy entrance won

Lack of power

Question 22

Tree of

Answer 22

Knowledge

Question 23

Tree of part 2

Answer 23

Prohibiton

Question 24

How can i live

Answer 24

Without thee

Adam, misuse of power

Question 25

For what thou

Answer 25

art is mine

Adam, misuse of power

Question 26

Against his

Answer 26

Better knowledge

Question 27

For what can escape the

Answer 27

Eye of God all seeing

Question 28

Attributes of God

Answer 28

Omniscient
Wise
Just

Question 29

Most High

Answer 29

Eternal father

Question 30

Names for the son

Answer 30

Mediator
Redeemer
Mild judge
Intercessor

Question 31

[the son is meant] “to judge…”

Answer 31

“…man fallen”

Question 32

Yet i shall temper

Answer 32

So justice with mercy

Question 33

Remember with what mild and gracious

Answer 33

Temper he both heard and judged

Question 34

Prostrate

Answer 34

Fell

Question 35

Both confessed

Answer 35

Humbly their thoughts

Question 36

Pardon begged

Answer 36

With tears watering the ground

Question 37

Still methinks the duchess

Answer 37

Haunts me

Bosola

Question 38

Aughterson about how Webster ends his plays

Answer 38

DoM and the white devil end with young boys
= symbolic of hope and rebirth

Political power is undermined by the power of legacy

Question 39

1971 court production

Answer 39

Madmen kill the duchess

Power of madness / corruption of noble death

Question 40

Fish about Adam and Satan

Answer 40

Satan’s actions serve to highlight Adam’s obedience and loyalty to God

Question 41

Cecil on Webster

Answer 41

The world as seen by Webster is of its nature incurably corrupt

Question 42

Greenlaw on Satan

Answer 42

Satan is mastered by “unworthy ambition and lust for power”