beauty

Duchess ‘why should only I / of all the other princes of the world / be cased up like a holy relic?’ ‘i have youth and a little beauty’ (she is beautiful but restricted - objectification)

May ‘her fresshe beautee and hir age tendre’ (Jan ‘wol non old wyf han in no manere) (she is beautiful and that is all Jan values her for - different objectification)

Ferd suggests Card cannot trust Bosola because of ‘some oblique character’ in his ‘face’ (physiognomy - physical as moral characteristic)

Jan ‘the slakke skin about his nekke shaketh’ (ugly and off putting - physical as reminder of our disgust)

Bosola says ‘though continually we bear us / a rotten and dead body, we delight / to hide it in rich tissue’ to old lady (physical beauty to disguise the morally disgusting)

Jan thinks of ‘his fresshe May, his paradis, his make’ (her beauty serves to make him/his life more beautiful) (physical beauty to disguise the morally disgusting)

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