21st Century Duchess of Malfi – House of Card.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy6x4Y1wus4

Duchess of Malfi is a very powerful literature that focuses more than violence and killings of a well established family. It illustrates the character of power hungry people that willing to do anything to achieve that power of pure dominance. Without a doubt, there is only one television show that comes to my mind; House of Cards featuring Kevin Spacy and Robin Wright. (THERE WILL BE SPOILER ALERTS, COMMENT AT YOUR EXTREME RISK!!!!)

As some may know, House of Card focuses on a politician named Frank Underwoods and his wife, Claire. they are like the Cardinals and Ferdinand; calm and ambitious. They desires to become the President of United States after being feeling betrayed from the President for not keeping their promise. From there, they achieve that through a dangerous road of manipulations, murders, and politics. At some points, Frank killed a disposable new reporter, Zoe Barnes, whom he had sex and controlled with by pushing her to the train track. He used her to leak out any news related to Congress, and through that, he was able gain the position of Vice President of the United States. From there, she became useless and therefore, needs to be eliminated. After all, only dead people can keep secrets forever. In season 3, Frank says to Claire, “We are survivors.” This indicates how they achieve that power by making necessary choices and want to show the world that they are not anyone’s domestic dogs, but rather than alpha hungry wolves.