Tis Pity Quotes Flashcards
(44 cards)
Giovanni describes Annabella’s virginity as a
‘pretty toy called maidenhead’
Florio right after Hippolita’s death
‘Was e’er so vile a creature!’
Richardetto right after Hippolita’s death
‘Here’s the end
Of lust and pride.’
Hippolita
Break from male power
‘Freely I here remit all interest
I e’er could claim, and give you back your vows’
Dismisses her wedding vows- early symbol of feminisim (Littler)
Giovanni explaining Annabella’s death
‘This dagger’s point plough’d up
Her fruitful womb’
Annabella’s last lines
‘Forgive him, Heaven — and me my sins! farewell,
Brother unkind, unkind — mercy, great Heaven! oh — oh!’
Giovanni
Annabella’s bed
1.1
Shall then, for that I am her brother born
My Joys be ever banished from her bed?
Giovanni
Question to Friar about love and men
Must I not do what all men else may – love?
Friar
Question to Giovanni about knowledge and lust
Hast thou left the schools
Of knowledge, to converse with lust and death?
- personification of abstracts seem old-fashioned and rigid
- links to 7 deadly sins, implies immediate link between lust and death
Annabella
Sees Giovanni for the first time
…see what blessed shape
Of some celestial creature now appears?
- idolatrous
- alliteration
Giovanni
Fate
1.3
Tis not, I know, My lust, but ‘tis my fate that leads me on
-links to 1.1 where G says ‘my fate’s my god’- echo of Faustus as biblical reference is ambiguous
Giovanni
Lie to Annabella about the Church
I have asked counsel of the holy Church,
Who tells me I may love you
Putana
Annabella and any man
if a young wench feel the fit upon her, let her take anybody, father or brother, all is one
Hippolita
Revenge
Revenge shall sweeten what my griefs have tasted
- motif of food
- juxtaposition
- irony
Friar
To Giovanni after he knows about G and A
Peace! Thou hast told a tale whose every word
Threatens eternal slaughter to the soul
Friar
To Annabella about Giovanni’s fate in Hell
there lies the wanton
On racks of burning steel, while in his soul
He feels the torment of his raging lust
Vasques
To Hippolita after he poisons her
Foolish woman, thou art now like a firebrand (burning wood), that has kindled others and burnt theyself’
Vasques
To Hippolita
‘mistress…
she-devil, your own mischievous treachery hath killed you’.
Enter Soranzo, unbraced (with his sword drawn) and Annabella dragged in
‘Come, strumpet, famous whore!’
Unbraced suggests madness or just had sex. Links to Hamlet
Richardetto
To Philotis
Who dies a virgin lives a saint on earth
Soranzo
Insults to Annabella when he finds out she’s pregnant
5
'adulterous veins' 'cunning whoredom' 'hot itch' 'harlot' (prostitute) 'bastard- bearing womb'
Annabella
To Soranzo about why she married him
‘twas not for love I chose you, but for honour
Soranzo
Threat to Annabella anticipating her fate
‘I’ll rip up thy heart
And find it there’
Annabella ‘do, do’
- one word sentence
- violence and threat
- irony
- confident repetition
Giovanni
Just as he stabs Annabella
‘To save thy fame, and kill thee in a kiss.Thus die and die by me, and by my hand. Revenge is mine; honour doth love command’
- abstract nouns
- personifications
- sense of helplessness? lack of Free Will?
- ‘PL’ ‘all pleasure to destroy’
