The White Devil- John Webster Flashcards
Gasparo about law
Law doth sometimes mediate
Lodovico about fortune
Fortunes a right whore
Antonella about no ones law abiders
We see the trees bare no such pleasant fruit
Flam is what to brac
Prompt as lighting to your service
Flamineo about Desire, act 1 scene2
Our desire is increased by difficulty of enjoying
Flam says to Camilo
She’s a counterfeit diamond
Flam think of women
Women are like cursed dogs
Brac about jewel
Nay lower, you must wear my jewel lower
Conerllia to flam about life
O that this fair garden had with all poisoned herbs
How does flam describe play unfolding
Like a winters snake
Isabella about marriage
These charms will charm his poison and force it to obey and keep it chase from infected straying
Monti about brac that links to James 1st
Neglect your awful throne for the soft down of an instiate bed
Giovanni is reconciliation
Here is a casket for both your crowns
Isabella about men’s power
O if I were a man, I had the power to exert my apprehended wishes
Conjuror
Both flowers and weeds spring when the sun is warm, and good men do great good or else great harm
Vito to lawyer
My accusation clouded in a strange tongue
Monti about Vitt in fruit
Your seen what goodlier fruit she seems
Who’re are? Link to hell
True material fire of hell
Vitt I’m trail about temptation act 3 scene 2
The temptation to lust does not prove the act
John Webster profession
Was a lawyer which is why depicts the court scene so well
Vitt and zanche say
Most religiously subversion
Vitt about justice to monti
You have ravished justice and forced her to do your pleasure
Flam about England at the time
There’s nothing so holy that money won’t corrupt and purify it
Brac declaring love to Vitt
I will love thee everlastingly
Flam about Vitt and sex
She must be turned on her back
Ralph berry
Animal imagery to comment on the brutish of man
Herewith t price
Webster uses poison to express relation between fair show and evil truth
Dr June waudby
The white devil replicates in microism women’s social limitations within a strong Patrichial society
Gunby
Good must always triumph over evil
Gale cengage
While devil demonises both women and the Catholic Church
Dianne hunningfield
Female characters are ambiguous their roles reveals the essential ambiguous position occupied by women in Jacobean era
Kate aughton
Female sexuality was public ally considered dangerous
Dianne hunningfield about Eden
Women bare the entire blame for the loss of Eden
David Coleman
Is not a love affair it’s a lust affair
Vitt clothing in 1991 production
Casts off a white cloak to reveal a red dress
Christian lucky j about Vitt thought
We are never given access to vits inner thought and feeling yet we are made privy to brac and flams
Christina lucky j
Vitt classes herself as brachiano’s whore