malfi scenes Flashcards
(19 cards)
1.1
-introduced to court, antonio, common fountain
-introduced to bosola-plum trees grown crooked
‘like beds in a hospital/ this mans head at that mans foot/lower and lower
1.2
-delio, castrucio, ferdinand in court
-antonio and delio discuss the brothers
‘devil speaks in them’
duchesss ‘lights time to come’
-bosola meets ferdinand-‘familiar’
-brothers try to persuade duchess not to marry - ‘privatest thoughts to light’
-Duchess proposes - cariola- ‘fearful madness’
2.1
-casturcio and bosola chat
-bosola abuses an old lady
-bosola gives her apricots ‘how greedily she eats them’
duncan -eptymolgoically connected to the apple
-she goes into labour
2.2
-plan there is robbers
-delio’ how superisoutly we mind our evils’
-announce there is a son
2.3
Bosola and antonio meet in the night ‘mole does undermime me’
-‘impudent snake indeed sir’
-drops nativity
‘my name are drowned in blood’ (foreshadowing)
-‘short life/violent death’- bosola picks it up
2.4
-julia and cardinal
‘fear my constansy/have such giddy and wild turnings in yourself’
‘taken you of your melancholy perch’
-delio tries to woo julia
2.5
Ferdinand and cardinal
‘digged up a mandrake’
=report of marriage
‘purge her infected bloos/hew her to pecies/ whores bloos
cardinal mocks - ‘are you stark mad= foreshadowing
3.1
antonio and delio chat
‘love and marriage betwen her and me/would never dream of’
-ferdinand talks with duchess
‘deadly air is purged’
-bosola and ferdinand chat
-‘withcraft lies rank’
bosola ‘top grossly flatter yourself’
3.2
intimate bedroom seeting
-‘lord of misrule/ ill stop your mouth
ferdinand enters in night
‘doomed to die/do both like a prince’
‘not gone about this to create new world of custom
‘you have shook hands with repuation/made him invisible
‘why shall i be cat like a holy relic
=enter bosola
she tells him truth
‘secret of my prince’
cariola ‘do not like this jesting with religion’
bosola ‘for this i am certain to be raised’
3.3
men in courtg chat
‘‘fault and beauty/show like leprosy’
Antonio ‘slave that only smells of ink and counters
3.4
at shrine in loreto
pilgrim ‘cardinal bears himseld much too cruel’
3.5
antionio and duchess say goodbye
‘diamonds changed to pearls’
‘birds happier/choose their mates’
‘to see you dead or to part with you’
‘heaven hath fashioned us out of nothing..’
‘laurel all withered’
learns of bosolas betryayal
‘beat that counterfit face’
speech
‘men often valued high when they are most wretched’
4.1
Ferdinand visits the imprisoned duchess
‘this darkness suits you well’
-gives her a hand to kiss, she believes it is antonios
-Ferdinand angry ‘damn her, that body of hers’
-orders her be killed to ‘feed a fire as great as my revenge’
4.2
Duchess asserts her sanity
‘heaven overhead a molten brass/earth a flaming sulphur/ yet i am not mad yet’
Madman arrive ‘i am chained to endure all your tyranny’
Bosola, like an old man enters ‘come to make thy tomb/ thou art a box of wormseed
-luckyj - duchess an inrcanation of youth and beauty, faces death
‘i am duchess of malfi still/
‘death is the greast gift they can give, or i take’
‘pull and pull strongly/pull heaven upon me’
Ferdiand
‘cover her face/mine eyes dazzle/
‘some sins only speak, murder shrieks out’
Bosola-need to change
‘good actor many times is cursed/for playing a villians part
‘i loathed your evil, yet i loved that you did counsel it’
‘mercy!’
5.1
Antonio and delio chat
-delio gives land to julia
Antoni decides to act
‘yet it shall rid me of this infamous calling/better to fall once then always be falling’
5.2
ferdinand has lycanthropia
‘let it not haunt me’
‘he has wolves skin/his on the inside;
‘i have cruel sore eyes’
Julia agrees to help bosola -‘wind his tongue about my heart’
Julia killed ‘tis secret like a lingering poison’
‘thy curiosity have undone thee/posioned book bound thee to deth’
‘tis weakness, i go,i know not wither’
Bosola -‘fair marble colours/upon your rotten purposes’
‘the weakest arm is strong enough that strikes the sword of justice’
‘still me thinks the duchess haunts me’
5.3
Encounter the echo
‘deadly accent/ oh fly your fate’
‘a very deadly accent’
Niayesh - vertbreations of the duchess remain, echo chamber of a play that bears her name
-her message transedning temporal boundaries of life/death
5.4
Cardinals guilt
‘oh my conseinse! would pray now but the devil takes away my heart’
Bosola ‘black deeds must be cursed with death
cooper -play a network of light and dark, dark is the enemy of virtue
Accidentally strikes antonio
‘we are merely the stars tennis balls/ struck and banded which ways please them’
‘do not wish my woumbs balmed nor healed/no use to put my life too’
‘let my son fly the courts of princes
5.5
Cardinal prays ‘hell is a material fire/yet it shall not burn all men alike’
-he stabs cardinal
‘suffer not what has former bin/sorrow is the eldest child of sin’
bosola -‘when thou killed thy sister, thou took justice from her most equal balance’
bosola regrets ‘an actor in the maim of it all/much against my own good nature’
‘last part of my life hath done me a better service’
-‘to suffer death and shame for what is just/mines another voyage
Delio
-‘print in snow/sun shines/ever melts
-integrity of life is fames best freind/which nobly beyond death will crown the end’
