Volpone Quotes Flashcards
Semantic field of worship in act 1 scene 1-
‘Worlds soul’ ‘shrine’ ‘Saint’ ‘celestial’ ‘relic’ ‘glorious’
‘And modesty an exile made…’
‘For money’ (celia acting as jonsons mouthpiece)
Summing up the plays didactic purpose with an aphorism-
‘Mischief feed like beasts. Till they be fat, and then they bleed’
‘I am caught in…’
‘My own noose’
‘Riches, the dumb god…’
‘That givst all men tongues. That canst do naught, and yet makst men do all things’
‘What a rare punishment…’
‘Is avarice to itself’
Volpone’s wooing of Celia-
alliteration of ‘hot as high’ and lyrical rhyming couplets in song to heighten ‘poetic’ quality of speech, making scene even more absurd
semantic field of sickness around sex
He feels a fever, a “flame”, trapped inside his body. “My liver melts,”, and Mosca describes his situation as a “torment.”
Corvino (sex and violence)
“itching ears,” “noted lechers,” “satyrs,” “hot spectators,” “the fricace” (a type of massage), before he verbally imagines Celia and Scoto Mantua engaged in the act of intercourse.
“I will make thee an anatomy, / Dissect thee mine own self..’
‘and read a lecture / Upon thee to the city and in public,”
‘I should strike this steel into thee…’
‘with as many stabs as thou wert gazed upon him with goatish eyes’
‘his soul’
‘moves in his fee’
‘if it please…’
‘my patron, not else’
‘my apoplexy…’
palsy and catarrhs’
