When he finds out about the marriage and is proleptic of lycanthropy and madness. 'The howling of a wolf'. Ferdinand on the death of the children. 'The death of young wolves is never to be pitied'. on his own isolation. 'Eagles commonly fly alone'.

Ferdinand: the witchcraft lies in her rank blood. - Ferdinand accuses the duchess of being a witch because of her ignorance and having a child out of wedlock - Shows how women in Jacobean times were automatically condemned by society - 'Blood' = reference to Ferdinand's preoccupation with preserving the bloodline by having her marry Count ...

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His doctor recounts how Ferdinand "Said he was a wolf, only the difference / Was, a wolf's skin was hairy on the outside, / His on the inside" (5.2.16-18). Ferdinand's obsessed with his own discrete purity, and his madness—the ultimate self-obsession; the ultimate solipsism—grants him what he's always wanted, in a way: he's finally totally ...