Act 2 Flashcards
Act 2 Scene 1: Angelo insisting that the law should be enforced to the highest degree, equal to the authority is possesses
“We must not make a scarecrow of the law”
Act 2 Scene 1: Escalus’ rebuttal to Angelo’s argument regarding the severity of the law
“Let us be keen and rather cut a little / Than fall and bruise to death”
Act 2 Scene 1: Angelo’s views about temptations to sin and commit crimes
“‘Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus, / Another thing to fall.”
Act 2 Scene 1: Angelo stating that he would want to be judged the same should he commit the same sin as Claudio
“When I that censure him do so offend, / Let mine own judgement pattern out my death”
Act 2 Scene 1: Escalus fearing for Claudio as he could not persuade Angelo to be more lenient in his judgement
“Well, heaven forgive him and forgive us all. / Some rise by sin and some by virtue fall”
Act 2 Scene 1: Constable Elbow outlining Pompey’s position in society
“A tapster, sir, parcel bawd”
Act 2 Scene 1: Escalus comparing the bumbling Constable Elbow and the eloquent pimp Pompey
“Which is the wiser here, Justice or Iniquity?”
Act 2 Scene 1: Pompey questions the effectiveness of Angelo’s regime as nearly everyone in Vienna has committed extra-marital sex
“If you head and hang all that offend that way but for ten year together, you’ll be glad to give out a commission for more heads.”
Act 2 Scene 2: Isabella expresses her conflict between her duty to her family and her faith
“For which I would not please, but that I must, / For which I must not please, but that I am / At war ‘twixt will and will not.”
Act 2 Scene 2: Angelo questions how Claudio can go unpunished whilst his sin is illegal
“Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it?”
Act 2 Scene 2: Isabella uses the key principles of the Christian doctrine to convince Angelo to free Claudio
“Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once, / And He that might the vantage
best have took / Found out the remedy.”
Act 2 Scene 2: Isabella tells Angelo that his methods of leadership are too harsh and that he is abusing his power
“Oh, it is excellent / To have a giants strength, but it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant.”
Act 2 Scene 2: Angelo expresses his arousal at Isabella’s words, which he interprets as having sexual connotations
“She speaks, and ‘tis such sense / That my sense breeds with it.”
Act 2 Scene 2: Angelo trying to understand the reason why he is attracted to Isabella
“Dost thou desire her foully for those
things / That make her good?”
Act 2 Scene 3: Juliet’s reaction to the news that her fiancé Claudio will be executed the next day
“O injurious love, / That respites me a life, whose very comfort / Is still a dying horror!”
