Violence - DOM + SCND Flashcards
Incestuous rage - Ferdinand 2:5
‘I’ll find scorpions to string my whips, and fix her in a general eclipse’
Insane threats of violence - 4:1
[artificial figures of Antonio and is children; as if they were dead]
Tendency for violence - Bosola 1:1
‘Whose throat must I cut?’
Subtle physical and sexual dominance using props - Ferdinand 1:2
‘this is my father’s poniard’
Imagery of death interlinked with love - Duchess 1:1
‘make not your heart so dead a piece of flesh, to fear, more than to love me’
Undermines the threat of women - Bosola 5:2
‘your pistol holds nothing but perfumes’
Building threat of violence - Stanley 10
‘we’ve had this date with each other from the beginning’
Assertion of masculine dominance - 7
[hurls a plate on the floor]
Intertwining love and violence - Stage Directions 3
[with heaven splitting violence]
Self defence - 10
[she smashes a bottle… clutching the broken top]
Undermines the threat of women - Stanley 10
‘drop the bottle - drop it!’
Relationship between desire and violence - Stella 4
‘I was… sort of thrilled by it’
Aggressive retaliation to Blanche’s presence - 3
[with a shouted oath, he tosses he instrument out of the window]
Violence in Stanley’s nature - 3
[stalks fiercly]
Violent death - Ferdinand 2:5
‘burn her in a coal pit with the ventage stopp’d so that their smoke might not ascend to heaven’
Violent symbolism in Stella and Stanley’s relationship - 1
[bloody meat package]
Aggressive violence - Cardinal 5:2
‘I’ll have thee hew’d in pieces’
Fate and violence - Antonio 2:3
‘doth threaten violent death’
