DOM quotes

Question 1

Duchess to Antonio - proposed

Answer 1

‘One of your eyes is bloodshot, use my ring to’t’

Question 2

Antonio to Duchess - love

Answer 2

‘You have made me stark blind’

Question 3

Julia - feminity

Answer 3

‘I have a bird more beautiful’

Question 4

Duchess - bird

Answer 4

Your shears do come untimely now to clip the bird

Bird symbol of feminine freedom and power destroyed by masculine power

Question 5

Duchess - class

Answer 5

The misery of us that were born great

Question 6

Bosola - devil

Answer 6

sometimes the devil doth preach

Question 7

Bosola - meritocracy

Answer 7

Let good men, for good deeds, covet good fame

Question 8

Bosola - birds

Answer 8

Thou art a box of wormseed. Didst thou ever see a lark in a cage? Such is the soul in the body.’

Question 9

Duchess - death

Answer 9

Our value never truly can be known till in the fisher’s basket we be shown’

Question 10

Julia stage direction

Answer 10

[enter Julia pointing a pistol at Bosola] - female control and sexuality

Question 11

Bosola - inspiration from the cardinal

Answer 11

‘Tis his cunning: I must follow his example’ about the Cardinal

Question 12

Pescara - foxes

Answer 12

These factions amongst great men, they are like foxes

Question 13

Ferdinand - fire

Answer 13

Unquenchable wild-fire - female sexuality/desire + anger

Question 14

Antonio - madness

Answer 14

Ambition is a great man’s madness

Question 15

Bosola - wisdom

Answer 15

Wisdom begins at the end - metatheatrical aganoriasis deterministic

Question 16

ferdinand fire

Answer 16

we must not use balsaman, but fire

Question 17

Ferdinand - poniard

Answer 17

This was my father’s poniard

Question 18

Bosola Act 4 scene 2

Answer 18

Return fair soul from darkness and lead mine out of this sensible hell

Question 19

Bosola about Duchess’ acceptance

Answer 19

She seems rather to welcome the end of misery than shun it: a behaviour so noble

Question 20

Duchess - wax figures Act 4 scene 1

Answer 20

There is not between heaven and earth one wish. I stay for after this.

Question 21

Duchess - dignity

Answer 21

‘I will not be a common mistress’

Question 22

Antonio - fountain act 1 scene 1

Answer 22

A prince’s court is like a common fountain, whence should flow pure silver drops in general; but if ‘t chance some cursed example poison ‘t near the head, death and diseases through the whole land spread.

Question 23

Duchess - fortune Act 4 scene 2

Answer 23

Fortune seems only to have her eyesight to beholding tragedy

Question 24

Bosola - tomb Act 4 scene 2

Answer 24

I am come now to make thy tomb

Question 25

Duchess - parasites Act 4 scene 2

Answer 25

Go tell my brothers, when I am laid out,//They then may feed in quiet

Question 26

Duchess - reversal of gender roles - Act 3 scene 2

Answer 26

whether I am doomed to live or die, I can do both like a prince

Question 27

Julia - stage direction female sexuality and power Act 5 scene 2

Answer 27

[enter Julia pointing a pistol at Bosola]

Question 28

Ferdinand - poniard Act 1 scene 3

Answer 28

This was my father's poniard: do you see ... I'd be loathe to see it rusted

Question 29

Ferdinand - female sexuality Act 4 scene 1

Answer 29

Damn her! That body of hers

Question 30

Duchess - strength in death Act 4 scene 2

Answer 30

Pull and pull strongly, for your able strength//must pull down heaven upon us

Question 31

Stage directions when Duchess proposes

Answer 31

[He kneels]

Question 32

Duchess - diamonds motif

Answer 32

Diamonds are most value, they say what have passed through most jewelers hands

Question 33

Ferdinand - widows

Answer 33

You are a widow. You know already what man is

Question 34

Duchess trust in Cariola

Answer 34

I have given up more than my life; my fame keep my council

Question 35

antonio - about their love

Answer 35

that never bore fruit divided

Question 36

Antonio - feigned nobility

Answer 36

The great are like the base ... When they seek shameful ways to avoid shame

Question 37

Ferdinand to Duchess - dark vs light

Answer 37

your darkest actions, nay, your private thoughts will come to light

Question 38

Ferdinand incestual imagination

Answer 38

my imagination will carry me to see her in the shame of sin

Question 39

funny Wanamaker moment, kneeling with patronising tone

Answer 39

I can be angry without this rapture

Question 40

Ferdinand to Duchess - reputation

Answer 40

You have shook hands with Reputation and made him invisible

Question 41

Ferdinand - remorse

Answer 41

Why did'st thou not pity her

Question 42

Ferdinand - poison

Answer 42

You live in a rank pasture ... will poison your fame

Question 43

Ferdinand - milk

Answer 43

Tis not your whore's milk that shall quench my wildfire. But your whore's blood

Question 44

Antonio zoomorphising Ferdinand

Answer 44

The tiger

Question 45

Ferdinand - burning

Answer 45

I would have their bodies burnt in a coal pit with the ventage stopped boil their bastard ... And give't his lecherous father to renew'

Question 46

Duchess - death

Answer 46

come vioent death

Question 47

Duchess dismissing Cariola

Answer 47

Thou art a supertitious fool

Question 48

Duchess - gender

Answer 48

were i a man, I'd beat that counterfeit into thy other face

Question 49

Antonio - body politic

Answer 49

poison't near the head, death and disease through the whole land spread

Question 50

Antonio about Duchess' light

Answer 50

she stains the time past, lights the time to come

Question 51

Ferdinand about Antonio

Answer 51

A slave

Question 52

Antonio about Duchess' reputation

Answer 52

the common rabble do directly say she is a strumpet

Question 53

Duchess' disregard of reputation

Answer 53

Let old wives report

Question 54

Bosola - plum trees

Answer 54

he and his brother are like plum trees that gro crooked ... but none but crows, pies and caterpillars feed on them.

Question 55

Cariola - secrets

Answer 55

I'll conceal this secret from the world

Question 56

Cariola - fear for Duchess

Answer 56

Whether the spirit of greatness or of woman / Reign most in her, I know not, but it shows / A fearful madness

Question 57

Cariola - sisterhood + abandoning

Answer 57

I will die with her I will not die! I must not! ... I am quick with a child!

Question 58

What the Duchess is punished for

Answer 58

'Dare to woo' Antonio

Question 59

The duchess accuses Ferdinand of

Answer 59

so much distrusts my husband's love

Question 60

Duchess imprisoned

Answer 60

chained to endure all your tyranny

Question 61

Ferdinand remorse + mourning

Answer 61

cover her face. Mine eyes dazzle

Question 62

Cardinal to Julia - similar to pillar quotation

Answer 62

I have taken you off your melancholy perch