Quotes Flashcards
“sway your high blood”
Cardinal to Duchess about her place in hierarchy.
“they are most luxurious that will wed twice”
Ferdinand - If she marries twice she will be a whore.
“their livers more spotted than Laban’s Sheep”
Ferdinand - biblical allusion to Genesis.
“All my secrets”
Cardinal - sleeping with Julia going against his own religion.
“she throws upon a man a look so sweet”
Bosola
“I could kill her now”
Ferdinand
“one of no birth”
Bosola describing Antonio
French court 1.1
Princes court like a common fountain whence should flow pure silver
drops
Italian court 1.1
Poisont near the head. Death and disease through the whole land spread
Bosola describing Duchess eating 2.1
“How greedily she eats”
“Shameful act of sin”
Duchess compared to Elizabeth 1
3.2
“for know if I am doomed to live or die, I can do both like a prince”
Ferdinand telling Duchess about meeting her lover
Similar to Satan
3.2
“yes, if I could change eyes with a basilisk”
Theme of uncertainty 3.2
“as if a mine beneath my feet were ready to be blown up”
Foreshadowing death of Duchess
3.5
“all the diamonds were changed to pearls”
4.1 showing stoicism
“noble duchess”
4.2
when duchess is about to be killed.
“pull and pull strongly, for your able strength must pull down heaven upon me”
Hippocritical comment by Ferdinand
4.2
“you are a villain”
Ferdianan on his anger to the Duchess
“I could kill her now… Sin in heaven doth revenge by her”
Duchess commenting on freedom with animal imagery
“the robin redbreast and nightingale never live long in cages”
