TDOM/PL love, marriage and loyalty Flashcards
the duchess is “right
and noble”
cardinal on marriage
“the marriage night is the entrance into some prison”
“per verba
de presenti”
“thou art a
witty false one” (2.4) - c to julia
act 3 - antonio calls F +C
“my brothers”
lack of marital loyalty in PL
“let us divide our labours”
motif in PL to describe marriage
flowers - “fairest unsupported flower”, “garland”
“Adam wedded
to another Eve” “I extinct”
“me with thee
hath ruined”
PL love
juxtaposition between pre and post-lapsarian marriage
ao3 paradise lost marriage
milton’s 3 divorce tracts - divorce should be allowed if the spiritual connection is lost
postlapsarian sex and argument 4 things
“unclean” “shady bank” “guilty shame” “innocence was gone”
gender roles prelapsarian
“nothing lovelier can be found in woman, to study household good”
low standards men hold towards women TDOM
- the old woman 2.1 with bosola “painted inclines on a scurvy face”
- male characters make passing derogatory comments about female characters (courtiers in 2.2)
julia and the cardinal
no love - she is insulted and then murdered when she no longer serves his purpose
cariola as a victim of male authority
3.2 antonio threatens to shoot her
act 4 she is murdered for her associations withe the Duchess
