tragedy - dom

Question 1

roider

Answer 1

[The play is] a cautionary tale which shows what can happen when women marry without being granted the “proper” consent.

Question 2

white

Answer 2

The tragedy of a virtuous woman who achieves heroism through her death.

Question 3

watson

Answer 3

Virtue in this disordered world is merely wasted, honour bears not issue, nobleness dies unto itself.

Question 4

brooke

Answer 4

The end is a maze of death and madness.

Question 5

thayer

Answer 5

The fact that the Duchess is killed in Act 4 (and does not die in the act of winning revenge) deflects attention away from her as the centre of the action and moves the play out of the category of revenge tragedy.

Question 6

brown

Answer 6

‘the story of the tragedy was a syndrome for contemporary issues.’

Question 7

rose

Answer 7

the play collapses under its own contradictions.

Question 8

borlik

Answer 8

Malfi even goes so far as to perpetuate a belief that

families who benefited from the dissolution were cursed

Question 9

dolan

Answer 9

‘the play assures us one can never be sure about other people’s relationships.’

Question 10

billington

Answer 10

‘vision or human existence as chaotic and unstable’

Question 11

jankowski

Answer 11

‘The Duchess of Malfi is a play that is clearly concerned with questions of gender ideology.’