Women Flashcards
(37 cards)
Portrayals of women
Capability and agency of women
Female transgression + impact on others
Women’s fatal flaws
Female expectations
Women as a victim of their gender
Causes of female transgression
Duchess - personal happiness
Eve - desire for knowledge
Female fatal flaws
Duchess - defying brothers in pursuit of her own desires
Eve - ambition, and questioning divine authority
Webster context for women
Gender roles
Revenge tragedies
Milton context for women
Genesis
Puritanism
Great chain of being
Duchess’ first words to Ferdinand
“To me, Sir?”
“You already know…”
“…what a man is”
Ferdinand to duchess
“Lusty…”
“…widow”
Ferdinand
“The right noble…”
“…duchess”
Antonio about duchess
“Diamonds are of most…”
“…value…that have passed through most jeweller’s hands”
Duchess
“Whores by that rule…”
“…are precious”
Ferdinand
“I am going into a…”
“…wilderness”
Duchess on marriage
“She is often found…”
“…witty, but is never wise”
Bosola about duchess
“Notorious…”
“…strumpet”
Ferdinand
“Your whores…”
“…blood”
Ferdinand
“I will marry for…”
“…your honour”
Duchess (liar)
[she puts her ring…]
[…upon his finger]
“For nothing lovelier can be found…”
“…in woman, than to study household good”
“The wife…safest and seemliest…”
“…by her husband stays”
“Fairest, unsupported…”
“…flower”
“Thine shall…”
“…submit”
Eve’s punishment
“Children thou shalt bring…”
“…in sorrow forth”
“But of this tree we may not…”
“…taste nor touch; God so commanded”
“What fear i then…of”
“…God, or death, of law or penalty?”
