Status Flashcards
Types of status
Challenging divine / social order
= F+C / Bosola / Duchess and Satan / Eve
Status and gender
= duchess and eve
Loss of status
= duchess and A+E
Manipulation and use of status
= F+C and Satan
Regaining lost status via redemption
= duchess and the son for A+E
Status motivating actions / desires
= bosola, duchess, F+C and Satan, Eve
Webster context for status
Class
Gender
Divine right of kings
Great chain of being
Revenge tragedy
Milton context for status
Great chain of being
Gender roles
Civil war
Puritanism
“On sudden all the diamonds…”
“…were changed to pearls”
Duchess about her dream
“Forget this base…”
“…low fellow”
Bosola about Antonio
“Our value never can be truly known…”
“…till the fisher’s basket is show”
Duchess
What happens to Ferdinand’s speech after he descends into madness
Goes from verse to prose - status reduced
“I am your…”
“…creature”
“Shall our blood… …”
“…be thus attainted”
Cardinal
“Now constrained into…”
“…a beast”
“Mastering…”
“…heaven supreme”
“For nothing lovelier can be found in woman…”
“…than to study household good”
“The wife…safest and…”
“…seemliest by her husband stays”
“Go in thy…”
“…native innocence”
Satan increasing eve’s status through praise
“In her looks…”
“The sweet…”
“Angelic…”
“Divinely…”
“Thy celestial…”
“A goddess…”
“Empress of this…”
“…sums all delight”
“…recess of eve”
“…soft…feminine”
“…fair”
“…beauty adore”
“…among gods”
“…fair world”
“What i fear then…of…”
“…God. Or death, of law or penalty?”
Eve feels “my…”
“…power”
“I grow mature…”
“…in knowledge”
“Render me…”
“…more equal”
“For inferior…”
“…who is free?”
Adam’s status as Eve’s husband is undermined by his what?
“Exceeding love”
Adam’s status is undermined by “female…”
“…charm”
“Of innocence, of faith,…”
“…of purity…now soiled and stained”
“High passions, anger…”
“…hate, mistrust, suspicion, discord”
“Bare of all…”
“…their virtue”
God’s status quotes [4]
“For what can escape the eye of God all-seeing”
“Omniscient”
“Wise…just”
“Most High Eternal Father”
Status of the Son [4]
“Mediator”
“Redeemer”
“I go to judge”
“Intercessor”
“Of thy voice…”
“…afraid”
Adam to the son
“Was she…”
“…thy god”
“When he [satan] saw descend the…”
“…Son of God…terrified, he fled”
False sense of status
“At his feet…”
“…fell humble”
“Prostrate…”
“Both confessed…”
“Pardon begged…”
“…fell”
“…humbly their faults”
…with tears watering the ground”
Status regained via redemption
Lisa Jardine on the duchess’ status
“She acts as if her status gave her real power, in this she is proved pathetically wrong”
1972 BBC production
Bosola, cardinal and Ferdinand
Bosola is shorter than the rest
Cardinal wearing red - historically expensive, high status in catholic church
McColley on the weakness of humanity
The fall is an “inevitable manifestation of weakness inherent in man”
Divine status vs flawed human status
Hodge on the difference in Eve’s status
“To Satan, Eve seemed less than equal. To Adam, she seems evidently superior”
