Volpone and PL Flashcards
PL: Inferiority
What does Gilbert say?
She is secretly dissatisfied with her place, secretly preoccupied with questions of equality
V: inferiority
What does McEvoy say?
In Venice a kind of female liberation is only available if a woman puts herself on sale
V: Happiness
DiGangi?
Pleasures of role playing, shape changing, and mastery over another mans wife who is as lovely as his gold
Pl: Happiness
C.S Lewis
God head is the true destiny, and God head is what she thinks of when she eats
V: Sin
Parker
Delighting in perverse sexuality
PL: sin
Frye
Man is free to lose his freedom, and there, obviously, his freedom stops
V: seduction
DiGangi
Volpone’s invitation to heterosexual love making is preceded by his boasting
PL: seduction
C.S Lewis
God head is the true destiny, and God head is what she thinks of when she eats
V: Vanity
DiGangi
Mosca is both an eroticised and a disorderly servant
PL: Vanity
C.S Lewis
Eve fell through pride