Madness - DOM + SCND

Question 1

Fear of reality - Blanche 9

Answer 1

‘I don’t want realism. I’ll tell you what I want. Magic!’

Question 2

Effect of social pressures - Stella 8

Answer 2

‘because people like you abused her, and forced her to change’

Question 3

Trauma - Blanche 1

Answer 3

‘The boy - the boy died - I’m afraid I’m going to be sick!’

Question 4

Aural devices representing Blanche’s mental state

Answer 4

‘polka’ (past), ‘a locomotive is heard’ (industrialisation), ‘blue piano’ (depression and loneliness) ‘varsouviana’

Question 5

Cathartic cleansing suggesting guilt

Answer 5

[Blanche is bathing]

Question 6

Suffering and suggestion of suicide - Duchess 4:1

Answer 6

‘I account this world a tedious theatre, for I do play a part in it ‘gainst my will’

Question 7

Depression - Antonio 5:4

Answer 7

‘Pleasure of life, what is’t?’

Question 8

Insanity, lycanthropy - Ferdinand 4:2

Answer 8

‘I’ll go hunt the badger by owl light, ‘tis a deed of darkness’

Question 9

Desiring madness - Duchess 4:2

Answer 9

‘I am not mad yet, to my cause of sorrow’

Question 10

Admiration for her strength - Bosola

Answer 10

‘a behaviour so noble as gives a majesty to adversity’

Question 11

Aural devices, Charvari of the madmen

Answer 11

[a dismal kind of music]

Question 12

Assertion of psychological stability - Duchess 4:2

Answer 12

‘I am Duchess of Malfi still’

Question 13

Prop trigger to Blanche’s collapse - Stanley 8

Answer 13

‘Ticket! Back to London! On the Greyhound! Tuesday!’

Question 14

Psychological decline, hallucination - SD 10

Answer 14

[the shadows are of a grotesque and menacing form]

Question 15

Lycanthropia - Ferdinand 5:5

Answer 15

‘give me some whet hey’

Question 16

Description of Blanche’s mentality - Stanley 7

Answer 16

‘downright loco - nuts’

Question 17

Guilt in his deeds - Ferdinand 4:2

Answer 17

‘cover her face; mine eyes dazzle’

Question 18

Dehumanisation when institutionalised - Nurse 11

Answer 18

‘these fingernails have to be trimmed’

Question 19

Animalism and auditory madness - Madmen song 4:2

Answer 19

‘deadly dogged howl’

Question 20

Psychological revenge - Ferdinand 4:1

Answer 20

‘she’ll needs be mad’

Question 21

Mental stability, reference to auditory devices - Duchess 4:2

Answer 21

‘nothing but noise and folly can keep me from my right wits’

Question 22

Symbol of the coffin as a prop to undo the Duchess - B4:2

Answer 22

‘here is a present from your princely brothers […] it brings the last benefit of sorrow’

Question 23

Madness and self-loathing - Ferdinand 5:2

Answer 23

‘I will throttle it. [throws himself down on his own shadow]

Question 24

Aim of the use of the madmen - Ferdinand 4:1

Answer 24

‘to bring her to despair’

Question 25

Lycanthropy and death - Ferdinand 5:2

Answer 25

'the death of young wolves is never to be pitied'

Question 26

Mitch's realisation of madness - Mitch 9

Answer 26

'are you boxed out of your mind?'

Question 27

Psychological attack through intimidation - Stanley 7

Answer 27

'Get OUT of the BATHROOM'

Question 28

Celestial imagery linking to lunacy - Blanche 10

Answer 28

'moonlight swim'

Question 29

Hallucinations connecting to Southern Belle - 10

Answer 29

[murmuring excitedly as if to a group of spectral admirers]

Question 30

Hypocritical, sense of vulnerability - Blanche 6

Answer 30

'a girl alone in the world, has got to keep a firm hold on her emotions or she'll be lost'