Power & Corruption Flashcards
The devil candies all sins o’er, what heaven terms vile..
“The devil candies all sins o’er, what heaven terms vile… My corruption grew out of horse dung. I am your creature”
Act I scene II
“Political monster… he would…”
“Political monster… he would have carried it away without heavens knowledge”
Act I scene II
“Politicians are the devils quilted anvils… for this act…”
“Politicians are the devils quilted anvils… for this act I am certain to be raised - men that paint weeds for the life are praised”
Act III scene II
“Let me ever be deaf to’t. One of…”
“Let me ever be Death to’t. One of Pasquils paper bullets, court calumny, A pestilent air”
“There is not in nature a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger”
Act II scene V
- The cardinal
“The cardinals cool detachment is more terrifying than Ferdinand impassioned raving” - lee bliss
The cardinal telling Ferdinand to control himself - Ferdinand’s sadistic urges of violence becoming a liability
Foreshadows Ferdinand ultimate psychological decent to madness - lycanthropia
