ad told me. How would you hold a bird in your hand? If you would to hold it too tight, its only option would be to fly away.Edward Nay, then lay violent hands upon your king;Here Mortimer, sit thou in Edwards throne,Warwick and Lancaster, wear you my crown;Was ever king thus overruled as I? (1, 4, 35-38)Ferdinand Now her me:You live in a rank pasture here, I th court;There is a kind of honey-dew thats deadly:Twill poison your fame; look tot; be not cunning,For they whose faces do belie their heartsAre witches, ere they arrive at twenty years;Ay, and give the devil suck. (1, 1, 297-302)Duchess How can the church build faster?We now are man and wife, and it is the churchThat must but echo this-Maid, stand apart-I now am blind. (1, 1, 482-484)As we come to the death scenes of Edward. His rebellion of his situations and his relationship with Gaveston, had came to an end. As the hire assassin, Lightborn enters his cell where he was kept, murdered him in a way that represented the undertones of this whole play. The play wasnt about Edwards crown; it was about his homosexuality, and the jealousies of the Lords. They all saw how close their king was to Gaveston and they wanted to be as well liked as he was.In the death scenes of the Duchess, it was slightly similar to Edward being choked by his crown, preventing him from his happiness. The Duchess; however, was not choked by more than just her status, but by her two brothers as well. How she was murdered, being choked to death by an executioner and her unwillingness to fight to lived, only tells me, that she was already dead. Her executioner was not the one that was doing the actually killing, but instead it was her brother (Ferdinand), who has choked the life out of her with his over-protection. Being choked to death was the prefect reflection; of what the play was about, with Ferdinand as the executioner and the style she was murdered represented her isolation from the world due ...
