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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis Thesis is a study of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and The White
Devil. From both plays, the writer discusses the ambition of the characters,
Ferdinand in The Duchess of Malfi and Flamineo in The White Devil. In the two
plays, the writer learns that both Ferdinand and Flamineo are very ambitious for
materialistic achievements. By applying theory of characterization in analyzing the
characters through their speeches, actions, and through other characters' opinions
about them, the writer hopes that her curiosity; how far Ferdinand's and Flamineo's
ambition for materialistic comforts affect them, particularly their behaviour, and
how they can get into their self-destructions; can be fulfilled. Besides, the writer
also uses a theory of ambition in order to support her analysis and to help her to get
some knowledge about ambition, particularly about the characteristics of an
ambitious man. In analyzing the two characters, Ferdinand and Flamineo, the writer
finds out that they are very ambitious to achieve their worldly ambition. To fulfill
what they want they will do everything including the most wicked action, such as
killing their own kindreds. Later, it is found out that their actions for achieving their
ambition will lead them into their self-destructions. In the process of self-destructions,
both characters finally find that they are responsible for their own
destruction since they realize that their ambition is the cause of the destruction.