Friday, 16 January 2015

Things to think about for Duchess of Malfi

* main text of The Duchess of Malfi is set in Italy
     ^ I have chosen to set it in France.      =      Why??

  • The Catacombs of Paris - I Like the idea of something looking a little unpleasant about the lives of the characters and believe that there is a lot of skulduggery ongoings in the play. I felt like the atmosphere of the world that these character live in show look somewhat imposing but with a closer look you can see all the cracks in their world. You can see the real side of the characters and that their world is not as perfect that they would have us believe.
  • The Cardinal and Ferdinand are not what they seem, in fact they are worse, which we gradually find out through out the play. The Cardinal has blood on his hands and Ferdinand goes a step further and destroys his family. The skulls which appear to be a structure in the making of this family implying that they haven't been all truthful and as good as they want us to believe. 
  • The skulls show the structure of their world and what it was built on, death, deceit and dishonestly.




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