Dignity
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- Dignity
- Point One
- “I’ll bequeath this to her *******” (2:5)Suggestions that she is a ‘notorious strumpet’
- “Tarantula … where I brought my victims” (Sc 9)
- Point Two
- “For know, whether I am doomed to live, or die, I can do both like a prince.” (3:2)“I am making my will, as ‘tis fit princes should should” (1:1)Repeated imagery of the Duchess being like a Prince
- “He whistled at me. I put him in his place. So now for revenge he makes up stories about me.” (Sc 9)Blanche tries to retain her dignity through her accusations
- Point Three
- ‘’I am the Duchess of Malfi still’’. Act 4 scene 2Asserting dominance, progression, definitive, dignity of her and her pride in the face of torment.
- ‘’I am not a Polack...But what I am is a one hundred per cent American, born and raised in the greatest country on earth and proud as hell of it, so don’t ever call me a Polack’’. Dignity, patriotic, audience of 40s and 50s would have highly praised Stanley for this, rejecting his polish heritage. Scene 8
- Point One
- malfi
- streetcar
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