The White Devil- John Webster Flashcards

(37 cards)

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Gasparo about law

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Law doth sometimes mediate

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Lodovico about fortune

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Fortunes a right whore

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Antonella about no ones law abiders

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We see the trees bare no such pleasant fruit

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3
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Flam is what to brac

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Prompt as lighting to your service

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Flamineo about Desire, act 1 scene2

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Our desire is increased by difficulty of enjoying

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Flam says to Camilo

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She’s a counterfeit diamond

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Flam think of women

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Women are like cursed dogs

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Brac about jewel

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Nay lower, you must wear my jewel lower

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Conerllia to flam about life

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O that this fair garden had with all poisoned herbs

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How does flam describe play unfolding

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Like a winters snake

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Isabella about marriage

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These charms will charm his poison and force it to obey and keep it chase from infected straying

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Monti about brac that links to James 1st

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Neglect your awful throne for the soft down of an instiate bed

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Giovanni is reconciliation

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Here is a casket for both your crowns

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Isabella about men’s power

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O if I were a man, I had the power to exert my apprehended wishes

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Conjuror

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Both flowers and weeds spring when the sun is warm, and good men do great good or else great harm

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Vito to lawyer

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My accusation clouded in a strange tongue

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Monti about Vitt in fruit

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Your seen what goodlier fruit she seems

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Who’re are? Link to hell

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True material fire of hell

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Vitt I’m trail about temptation act 3 scene 2

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The temptation to lust does not prove the act

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John Webster profession

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Was a lawyer which is why depicts the court scene so well

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Vitt and zanche say

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Most religiously subversion

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Vitt about justice to monti

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You have ravished justice and forced her to do your pleasure

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Flam about England at the time

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There’s nothing so holy that money won’t corrupt and purify it

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Brac declaring love to Vitt

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I will love thee everlastingly

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Flam about Vitt and sex
She must be turned on her back
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Ralph berry
Animal imagery to comment on the brutish of man
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Herewith t price
Webster uses poison to express relation between fair show and evil truth
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Dr June waudby
The white devil replicates in microism women's social limitations within a strong Patrichial society
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Gunby
Good must always triumph over evil
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Gale cengage
While devil demonises both women and the Catholic Church
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Dianne hunningfield
Female characters are ambiguous their roles reveals the essential ambiguous position occupied by women in Jacobean era
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Kate aughton
Female sexuality was public ally considered dangerous
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Dianne hunningfield about Eden
Women bare the entire blame for the loss of Eden
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David Coleman
Is not a love affair it's a lust affair
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Vitt clothing in 1991 production
Casts off a white cloak to reveal a red dress
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Christian lucky j about Vitt thought
We are never given access to vits inner thought and feeling yet we are made privy to brac and flams
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Christina lucky j
Vitt classes herself as brachiano's whore