White Devil Themes and Quotes
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- Created on: 21-04-14 11:18
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- White Devil Themes and Quotes
- Death
- Vittoria
- "O my greatest sin lay in my blood; now my blood pays for't." (passion)
- Brachiano
- "T'have poisoned his prayer book."
- "Devil Brachiano thou art damned."
- Flamineo
- Is it ok to feel pleasure in Flamineo's death?
- "I love thee now"
- "My liver's parboiled like Scotch holy bread."
- Camilo
- "Writhes his neck about."
- "I taste not fully"
- Isabella
- "The circumstance that breaks you duchess' heart."
- Marcello
- "Flamineo runs Marcello through."
- Vittoria
- Corruption
- Italy - loose morals. - illicitness
- Characters identified and appreciated more in a revenge tragedy if from Italy
- "the rare tricks of a Machivallian."
- "The Cardinal's too bitter"
- "Black book"
- "It does not suit a reverend cardinal to play lawyer thus."
- "Great men do great good, or else great harm."
- Italy - loose morals. - illicitness
- Webster Context
- Webster studied law. Aware of corruption?
- Jacobean era. King James.
- Brutality of King James
- Corrupt courts of princes.
- Roman Catholic Church = corruption + superstition.
- Explores "skull beneath the skin"
- Ambition
- "Made me graduate... but not a suit richer."
- "Because we are poor shall we be vicious?"
- "Tree shall long time keep a steady foot whose branches spread no wider than the roots."
- Supernatural
- Dream scene
- "Excellent devil."
- "The devil is in your dream."
- "A foolish idle dream."
- "Mid of night"
- "Churchyard."
- "yew-tree"
- "I could not pray"
- Isabella's ghost
- "That have to meditate upon revenge."
- "Tis my melancholy"
- Brachiano's ghost
- "This is beyond melancholy"
- "ghost throws dirt on him and shows him the skull."
- "horrors" and "disgrace."
- Dream scene
- Revenge
- How moral are revenge plays?
- "Both flower and weed spring when the sun is warm."
- "For they that sleep with dogs shall rise with flees."
- Fransisco
- "Methinks this revenge is poor because it steals upon him like a theif."
- Monticelso
- "For my revenge i'd stake a brothers life."
- Lodovico
- "I did love Brachiano's duchess... I have sworn T'avenge her murder."
- How moral are revenge plays?
- Horrid Laughter
- Mocking Camilo
- "So unable to please a woman"
- "Cuckold"
- (Aside) "A lousy slave."
- Malcontent scene
- "What a strange creature is a laughing fool."
- "Let's be unsociably unsociable"
- Dumbshows
- Camilo's death is farcical therefore funny.
- Positions him over "vaulting horse" so it looks like he had an accident.
- Mocking Camilo
- Position of Women
- Vittoria
- "Through darkness diamonds spread their richest light."
- Corruption in court could be considered metaphorical **** of women.
- "Shall I expound whore to you?"
- "This character scapes me."
- Her duplicit personality is required to survive in a patriarchal society
- Zanche
- "Poor maids get more lovers than husbands."
- Isabella
- "Dig the strumpets eyes out,"
- Cornelia
- "O that I ne'er had borne thee."
- Misogyny
- "How miserable a thing it is to die 'mongst women howling!"
- "There's nothing sooner dry than women's tears."
- Vittoria
- Critics
- TS Eliot - Webster was "possessed by death"
- Charles Kingsley - "He has to arouse terror and pity, not thought."
- Kathleen McLuskie - Dramatised misogyny.
- Travis Bogard - According to Webster, "life... is moral chaos."
- Death
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