Key Quotations - Bosola Flashcards

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Bosola on the Aragonian Brothers

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-‘He and his brother are like plum trees that grow over standing pools’
-‘They are rich and overladen, stagnant with fruit, but none the crows, pies, and caterpillars feed on them’

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Seeing the irony in his nobility

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‘Which makes men truly noble, e’er should make me a villain’

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Bosola accepting his corrupt role from Ferdinand

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‘The provisorship of the horse? Say then my corruption grew out of horse dung. I am your creature.’

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4
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Bosola on makeup

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‘To behold thee not painted inclines somewhat near a miracle’

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5
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Bosola on the Duchess eating the apricot

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‘How greedily she eats them!’

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6
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Bosola on fear of female sexuality

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‘Monstrous desire’

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7
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Hatred of sycophants

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‘And do these lice drop off now?’

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8
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How the Duchess deals with her imprisonment

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‘Nobly’

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9
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How Bosola wants to see the Duchess after the guilt he feels

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‘Never in mine own shape’

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10
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Dressed as an old man, coming to kill the Duchess

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‘I am some to make thy tomb’

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Ferdinand’s judgement

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‘Mercy upon me, what a fatal judgement hath fall upon this Ferdinand!’

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12
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Cardinal after the Duchess’s murder

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‘The Cardinal is grown wondrous melancholy’

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13
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Haunted by guilt, wanting to save Antonio

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‘The weakest arm is strong enough that strikes with the sword of justice’

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14
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Fate and Calvinism as he kills Antonio

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‘We are merely that star’s tennis balls, struck and banded which way please them’

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15
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Anger towards the Cardinal for the Duchess’s death

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‘Thou took’st from Justice her most equal balance and left her naught but her sword’

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16
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Last line, going on another journey

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‘To suffer death or shame for what is just, mine is another voyage’

17
Q

Consequences of his work

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‘Scape the gallows’

18
Q

Lying to the Duchess about her brothers intentions

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'’Your brothers mean you safety’