Key Quotations - Ferdinand Flashcards
Ferdinand with his sycophants
‘Methinks you that are courtiers should be my touchwood’
‘take fire when I give fire - that is, laugh when I laugh’
Ferdinand not wanting the Duchess to remarry
‘She’s a young widow; I would not have her marry again’
Warning the Duchess that all will be exposed, foreshadowing
‘Your darkest actions - nay, your privat’st thoughts - will come to light’
Saying goodbye to the Duchess, sexual undertones
‘Farewell, lusty widow’
Shaming the Duchess after finding out she has given birth
‘She’s loose i’th’hilts, grown a notorious strumpet’
Violent lexis of what he wants to do to the Duchess
‘Till her bleeding heart I make a sponge to wipe it out’
Imagining the Duchess with a man
‘Happily with some strong-thighed bargeman’
Imagining he’s talking to the Duchess
‘Tis not your whore’s milk that shall quench my wildfire. But your whore’s blood’
Going into hibernation to find who is the father of the Duchess’s child
‘Till I know who leaps my sister, I’ll not stir’
Status and witchcraft of the Duchess
‘The witchcraft lies in her rank blood’
Promising he will never see the Duchess again
‘I will never see thee more’
Questioning the Duchess on reputation
‘Dost thou know what reputation is?’
Reaction to the Duchess’s death
‘Cover her face. Mines eyes dazzle; she died young’
‘She and I were twins’
Ferdinand’s regret
‘Between her innocence and my revenge…I was distracted of my wits’
Last line, recognises his actions and consequences
‘Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust’
