Remember that you are being tested on your knowledge and understanding of the whole text from which you are expected to make relevant and judicious selections of detail to frame your answer.
Question 1
EITHER
A
How far do you believe that in writing 'The Duchess of Malfi' Webster's main interest was to highlight inequalities between men and women?
OR
B
Read the following passage from Act 3 scene 2 very carefully.
How does Webster develop dramatic irony here and for what purposes?
ANTONIO. Pray thee, Cariola, let 's steal forth the room,
And let her talk to herself: I have divers times
Serv'd her the like, when she hath chaf'd extremely.
I love to see her angry. Softly, Cariola.
Exeunt [ANTONIO and CARIOLA.]
DUCHESS. Doth not the colour of my hair 'gin to change?
When I wax…
