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The Duchess of Malfi Quotes Flashcards

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Corruption - The Cardinal and Ferdinand

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‘He and his brother are like plum trees that grow crooked over standing pools.’

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Madness - Ferdinand’s controlling behaviour - Laughter

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‘laugh when I laugh’

‘I would then have a mathematical instrument made for her face, that she might not laugh out of compass.’

‘A most perverse and turbulent nature.’

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Female power - the Duchess’s influence

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‘She stains the time past, lights the time to come.’

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Espionage - Ferdinand and his sister

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‘observe the Duchess To note all the particulars of her ‘haviour’

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Espionage - Bosola’s role as an informant

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‘devil in flesh. An intelligencer.’

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Corruption - Bosola’s position in relation to Ferdinand

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‘I am your creature.’

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Misogyny - the Duchess’s killer response to Ferdinand

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‘Diamonds are of most value, They say, that have past through most jeweller’s hands.’

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Misogyny - towards widows

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‘Farewell, lusty widow!’

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Female power - imperatives

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‘Take pen and ink and write.’

‘Are you ready?’

‘What did I say?’

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Corruption - Antonio’s view on ambition

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‘Ambition, madam is a great man’s madness.’

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Female power - the Duchess and what she has to do in response to inadequacy of men

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‘We are forced to woo, because none dare woo us.’

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Loyalty/Friendship - Delio and Antonio

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‘Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.’

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Misogyny/Corruption - Cardinal’s behaviour towards Julia

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Cardinal’s use of imperatives with Julia - ‘Sit’

‘Though art a witty, false one.’

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Misogyny - Ferdinand’s words for his sister (tricolon!)

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‘A sister damned: she’s loose i’ th’ hilts; Grown a notorious strumpet.’

‘vile woman’

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Madness/Sickness - Ferdinand’s graphic imagery regarding the Duchess’s heart

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‘her bleeding heart I make a sponge To wipe it out.’

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Madness/Paranoia - Ferdinand about imagining the Duchess in the act

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‘Methinks I see her laughing… To see her in the shameful act of sin.’

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Madness - Ferdinand about the Duchess’s child

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‘to boil their bastard to a cullis And giv’t his lecherous father to renew The sin of his back.’

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Role of women - how is the Duchess doing?

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‘She’s an excellent Feeder of pedigrees.’

  • her maternal role as a bearer of children, Antonio reinforces her role.
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Madness/Status/Women - The Duchess’s position in the eyes of Ferdinand

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‘The witchcraft lies in her rank blood.’

rank - double entendre

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Vulnerability - the Duchess and her looks

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‘When I wax grey I shall have all the court Powder their hair arras to be like me.’

  • powerful vanity, awareness, flaw
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Female power - the Duchess’s stoicism

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‘I can do both like a prince.’

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Female power - why is the Duchess being treated like a holy relic?

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‘Why should only I, Of all the other princes of the world, Be cased up like a holy relic?’

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Female power - the Duchess creating a plan and putting herself forward

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‘I have fashioned it already.’

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Vulnerability - the Duchess confides in Bosola and falls into his trap

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‘Oh, you render me excellent music!’

  • when Bosola flatters Antonio
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Corruption/Religion - Cariola’s beliefs about what is going on regarding religion - kind of sums it all up

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‘I do not like this jesting with religion. This feigned pilgrimage.’

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Corruption - Bosola and the devil & men who do bad

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‘A politician is the devil’s quilted anvil.’

‘And men that paint weeds to the life are praised.’

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Class - how Ferdinand describes Antonio

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‘A slave that only smelled of ink and counters’

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Role of women - what Antonio tells the Duchess when parting

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‘Be a good mother to your little ones’

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Vulnerability - the Duchess when parting with Antonio and her son

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‘I know not which is best - To see you dead or part with you’

‘My laurel is all withered.’

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Female power - Bosola in awe of the Duchess’s stoicism

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‘Rather welcome the end of misery Than shun it - a behaviour so noble.’

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Vulnerability - the Duchess and death

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‘the greatest torture souls feel in hell - In hell! - that they must live and cannot die.’

  • antithesis
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Madness/Cruelty - Ferdinand’s why

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‘To bring her to despair.’

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Female power - Duchess’s opinion about the madmen

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‘Indeed I thank him. Nothing but noise and folly Can keep me in my right wits.’

  • defiant irony
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Madness/Corruption - Cariola’s words for Ferdinand

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‘tyrant brother’

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Corruption/Madness - what the madmen represent

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‘a mad lawyer and a secular priest.’

  • oxymoronic, non-religious priest. ordinary people brought to madness.
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Morality/Life - Bosola’s statement when dressed as an old man

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‘box of wormseed’

‘Such is the soul in the body’

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Female power - Duchess and her title

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‘I am Duchess of Malfi still.’

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Female power - the Duchess’s fearless nature towards death

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‘Peace! It affrights not me.’

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Vulnerability - the Duchess’s last wishes to Cariola for her children

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‘I pray thee, look thou giv’st my little boy Some syrup for his cold, and let the girl say her prayers ere she sleep.’

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Female power - her charitable and magnanimous nature

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‘I forgive them.’

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Female power - the Duchess’s faith in the face of death

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‘Pull and pull strongly… Must pull down heaven upon me… Come violent death.’

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Madness - Ferdinand’s response to his sister’s death

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‘Cover her face. Mine eyes dazzle! She died young.’

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Corruption/Realisation - Bosola and the two brothers

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‘Your brother and yourself are worthy men. You have a pair of hearts are hollow graves, Rotten and rotting others’

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Regret/Guilty conscious - Bosola regarding the Duchess’s death

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‘Where were These penitent fountains while she was living?’

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Madness - Ferdinand’s case of lycanthropia

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‘with the leg of a man Upon his shoulder, and he howled fearfully’

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Madness - how the doctor will make Ferdi better

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‘I will make him as tame as a dormouse.’

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Female power/Sexuality - Julia

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‘We that are great women of pleasure’

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Morality - the Cardinal’s realisation of his guilty conscious

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‘How tedious is a guilty conscience!’

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Corruption - Bosola’s allusion to Lady Justice

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‘Thou took’dt from Justice her most equal balance And left her naught but her sword.’

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Morality - Ferdi’s final reflection on his sister

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‘we fall by ambition, blood or lust, Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.’

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Morality - Bosola’s final view on the bleak world

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‘Oh, this gloomy world! In what a shadow or deep pit of darkness Doth womanish and fearful mankind live?’

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