Relationships - DOM and SCND Flashcards
Male gain in family relationships - Stanley 2
‘Napoleonic code […] what belongs to the wife belongs to the husband’
Status sacrifices relationships - Duchess 1:3
‘we are forced to woo as none dare woo us’
Gain from family relationships - Ferdinand 4:2
‘gained an infinite mass of treasure by her death’
Stanley’s relationships with women - SD 1
[the centre of his life had been pleasure with women]
Deceit in her pledge to marriage - Duchess 3:1
‘when I choose a husband I will marry for your honour’
Implications of violence and incest - Ferdinand 2:5
‘lay her general territory to waste’
Class divide in marriage - Stanley 8
‘I pulled you down off them columns’
Incestual imaginations of his sister - Ferdinand 2:5
‘shameful act of sin’
Violence and aggression with reference to purity of noble blood - Ferdinand 2:5
‘to purge infected blood, such blood as hers’
Spur of tragedy - Blanche 4
‘brutal desire’
Incestuous, using contextually sexual imagery - Ferdinand 2:5
‘root up her goodly forests’
Lack of privacy and sanctity of the family home - SD 10
[through the back wall of the rooms, which have become transparent, can be seen the sidewalk]
Violence and aggression throughout Stella and Stanley’s relationship - SD 1
[heaves a package at her]
Stella is ruled by her desire - Stella 4
‘there are things that happen between a man and woman in the dark - that sort of make everything else seem - unimportant’
Symbol of violence, sex and family blood - Ferdinand 1:3
‘my father’s poniard’
Family conflict - Bosola 4:2
‘you have bloodily proved the ancient truth that kindred commonly do worse agree than remote strangers’
Female responsibilities taken by the husband - Duchess 1:3
‘if I had a husband now, this care were quit’
Class divide - Antonio 1:3
‘O my unworthiness!’
Genuine love in the relationship - Antonio 1:3
‘and may our sweet affections, like the spheres be still in motion’
Restriction of marriage, also foreshadowing - Cardinal 1:1
‘the marriage night is the entrance into some prison’
Sexualised relationship - SD 3
[loud whack of his hand on her thigh]
Duchess refuses to spend her life in mourning for her late husband - Duchess 1:3
‘this is flesh and blood sir, tis not a figure cut in alabaster that kneels at my husband’s tomb’
Distorting romantic language in his attack - Stanley 10
‘we’ve had this date with each other from the beginning’
Misogynistic representation of the Duchess as lustful - William Painter’s ‘Duchess of Malfy’
‘glut her own libidinous appetite’
