Props DoM Flashcards

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The Duchess’s Ring

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  • Inversion of gender dynamics.
  • Offers it to Antonio. Given to her by the Duke, so it is a complex symbol of marriage, power, union
  • both conventional and aristocratic and subversive and progressive and romantic.
  • By giving it to Antonio, she is handing him the system that has kept him down, symbolically, and asking him to ‘raise’ himself.
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Ferdinand’s poniard

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  • phallic symbol.
  • Uncomfortable.
  • Brings it out at key moments, including confronting the Duchess in her private space. -Threatening symbol of masculine violence, but arguably masculine anxiety – his dependence on it.
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Bag of money/gold that Ferdinand gives Bosola

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– power, corruption, materialism.
-Buying Bosola and his soul.
-Absence of true loyalty.
-Loyalty is a rare commodity – Antonio, Cariola and, to some extent, Delio.
-Significantly they are all lower down the social scale and, ultimately, Bosola will join them – although too late.
- ALL RELATIONSHIPS ARE TRANSACTIONAL !

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Apricots

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  • Mirror corruption of fall.
  • Tempting Duchess. Corruption of nature - ‘grafted’ and grown in ‘horse dung.’ Exposes her secret (she is both Eve and Mary)
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Candles

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lighting and going out.
Symbolic of truth and corruption, idealism and decay/murder/death.
Frailty of the candle.
Impact of being lost in darkness and obfuscation.
Dark = hidden truth, deception

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